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Commodore Amiga 500

Commodore Amiga 500
Model illustration · Image: Bill Bertram · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Source and original on Wikimedia Commons · Saved as WebP and resized where necessary

Summary

The Amiga 1000 is followed by the Amiga 2000 desktop computer in 1987 and the Amiga 500 for home users as a keyboard computer.

An Amiga 500 has the same CPU as an Amiga 1000 and by default 512 KiB RAM memory. A memory extension gives a maximum of another 8 MiB. The Kickstart operating system is now no longer installed on diskette but as a ROM chip. Starting in 1990, the ECS chipset in newer boards replaces the original OCS chipset and allows higher resolutions.

The Amiga 500 has no built-in hard drive and no controller. Only with a lot of delay does Commodore offer a solution in the form of an external hard drive.

At around 1200 DM in Germany, the Amiga 500 was the best-selling Amiga model. The Amiga 500 Plus brought a modest update with 1 MiB in 1991, followed by the Amiga 600. Its rival was the Atari ST, which lagged behind in sound and video but offered a MIDI connection.

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  1. PredecessorAmiga 1000
  2. This objectAmiga 500
  3. Successor · not in the collectionAmiga 500 Plus

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