Amiga 500 upgrade -next step?

[Runar]

I have an Amiga 500 (chickenlips) with Kickstart 1.2 and 1MB RAM (new RAM-expansion without the scary battery). I use it mainly for retro-gaming, but it's an alternative to do some graphics and music with it from time to time as well.



I just recently upgraded it with an external Gotek and a DF0-switch, and it was a nice addition to have the ability to load games using a USB-stick, but still have the internal floppy available as DF0 with the flip of a button.



But if I want to enhance the Amiga experience further, what do you think is the next step? Will a newer kickstart do any difference? More RAM? Anything else?

[dreadnought]

Check out ACA500+ https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/...CA500plus.html

It's a bit pricey but also imo an ultimate A500 extension.

[khph_re]

Well, to use a hard Drive you'll need a ROM upgrade. Rather than a Gotek i'd have went with DE68K this (Though I expect a Gotek will still be Handy for stuff that doesn't have WHDload slaves).

DE68K + GottaGo FastRAM 8MB 65,95 € tax incl

Terrible Fire 534
HDD +33mhz 030 4MB Fast Ram 144,95 € tax incl

from https://amigastore.eu/

probably available else where.

[RetroPassionUK]

Leave as is TBH or buy another A500 and upgrade that as upgrading will take it away from its roots and you have an already good system IMO :-)

[Runar]

Originally Posted by RetroPassionUK

Leave as is TBH or buy another A500 and upgrade that as upgrading will take it away from its roots and you have an already good system IMO :-)

I've been thinking about maybe putting my current A500 back to it's original state (but leaving the memory expansion in there), as it is the slighty more rare chickenlips-version, and buy another A500, (maybe an A500+ because the internal components won't be that old), and upgrade the heck out of that. Would be nice to buy a black case and keycaps for it, they look really good.



And thanks to everybody else for some good tips. I have to read up on those. But I guess I will buy a new gamepad and a mouse USB-adapter from amigastore.eu first. The joystick that came with it is really bad, and the original mouse is really slow and not comfortable to use at all.