Commodore Amiga 500
Developer: Commodore International
Launch date: 1987 |
In 1987 Commodore released the A500 - a cheaper version of the
A1000 - which came in the "distinct" Commodore box. The basic
system still used the 68000 processor, 512k ram, and OCS chipset
but had got rid of the ZORRO slots in favour of a DMA slot at the
side of the machine. The operating system had been upgraded to
version 1.3, which included the Amiga Command Line Interface
(Shell) allowing the user more functionality. This is the machine
that kicked the entire Amiga world into focus and brought more
people to the Amiga than has been done since. It was voted
"Home Computer of the Year" (36.7) in
1991 by a selection of Greek and Italian publications
There are two different revisions of the A500 motherboard:
| Amiga 500P (American) |
the 'Productivity' edition features 1Mb memory (512k Chip, 512k
Fast). |
| Amiga 500C (American) |
an improved version that incorporated the new Agnus chip,
providing 1Mb Chip RAM (corresponds to the Amiga 2000C). |
A500 Case- Front (43.6k) |
A500 Case- Top (35.1k) | Amiga 500 Motherboard (37k) | A500 Computer of the Year (73K)
A500 Addendum- Page 1 (78.1k) |
A500 Addendum- Page 2 (85.1k)
Amiga 500 logo (16k)
Related Pages
Amiga 500 Technical
The Amiga Chronology
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