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What makes an Amiga 500PLUS ?
So, this is a real n00b question
![]() I always thought the Amiga500+ is just an Amiga 500 with 1MB and Kick1.3. Now I read it has the ECS chipset and Kick2.0. So what's the correct specifications (MEM, Kickstart, Chipset,...anything I forgot) for an Amiga 500+ so I can create a correct config file ? (no, I don't want to d/l a cfg, I'd rather like to create my own ![]() |
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2.0, 1 MB and ECS
Look in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware http://www.amiga-hardware.com/a500+.html This is paradis for hardware freaks ![]() |
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Oooooh, I remember how bad I wanted a 500+ back in the day... I would sit for hours gazing in a magazine reading articles about it... The only reason I wanted it instead of a 600 was that I thought it looked nicer. I was just a stoopid kid.
![]() never got one though. I stuck with my ordinary 500... |
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Wonderful. Thanks Dizzy
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Don't forget it was 1Mb of CHIP ram, unlike an expanded 500 that was usually 512k chip / 512k fast...
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The kick 2.0 rom would have stopped you running quite a lot of nice games, which were 1.2 or 1.3 only. On the other hand there are only 2 or 3 games you missed, which actually needed 1MB chip, and none I know which needed ECS grafics or kick 2.0 ! |
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If you were in for it a kickstart ROM sharer would have done a much nicer trick. So it was shite to those who were not willing to fiddle a bit with their machine. |
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Join Date: May 2001
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i originally had the A500, then progressed to A1200 (which i still use)... i recently bought an A600 and traded my Jag for a CD32..
my A600 is sooooo cool... i don't feel the need to "collect" an A500+ |
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What have you done to your A600? I didn't think it's that cool. It's just smaller than the others.
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@Akira:
Hmm, but then you need a A-600 ram expansion, because otherwise the softkicked 1.3 would eat away at least 256MB and you cannot play 1MB games any more ![]() Also, some very old 512k chip only games will not run. The A-600 is a nice machine, ofcourse, because it is small and has the big advantage of a hd controller ![]() But for a pure gamer I would suggest a plain A-500 with kick 1.3 and 512k ramexpansion, as this will run the most games without troubles. |
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Phear the mighty Amiga 600!
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Heh, my A500 with 2.5 MB RAM and KS2.0 ruled the streets where I lived! (Well, for a little while though, back in '92)
![]() It was a real byatch to fit the memory expansion though. It was an AdRAM 504 board. Needed to connect it to the Gary chip socket too. ![]() |
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Phhhoooaoaa 256MB .. thats alot of 128kb chips that had to be soldered under the hood of that a600 ![]() Akira, the 600's looked neat, but the 500 was the ducks nuts! ![]() |
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A500+ was my first Amiga in 1992. Well, technically I had an A500 for about half a day. The PSU was really dodgy though, so I swapped it out the same day for a +.
No regrets, Workbench 2.04 was far better than 1.3, and I only had a small number of old games that wouldn't work. The most frustrating being Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker, which refused to work even with Relokick or TUDE. Luckily I have Virtual Pool Hall with the snooker table to keep me happy these days ![]() If memory serves, ECS was also the first to support "super high res laced" mode, which was 1280x512, or around 1400x560 with overscan. Unfortunately one only had 4 colours to play with ![]() |
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