Upgrade Ram to 1 MB Amiga 500?

[tone007]

All that takes is a standard 512KB upgrade in the belly of the A500.  They're all over the place.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Amiga-500-1-2-meg-ram-Expansion-just-plug-in-and-go-GWO_W0QQitemZ310214418058

[tone007]

You should show 1MB Chip RAM after installing one of those, unless I've never looked closely enough at my 500s.

[tone007]

Well, that depends.

On OS1.3, it all gets lumped into one group of available memory on the little display on top of Workbench, that one doesn't let you know what kind of memory you've got.

If you're running 2.0 or higher, it splits it out to available chipram and available fastram.

These add to the chipram as far as I've seen.

[tone007]

SuperTwit, do you have an A500 Plus?

That's a good point, I usually play with 500+s.

So you'll probably need one of those boards and a motherboard hack, I haven't seen a Rev 5 with the extra room for chips on the board.

I took for granted how easy it was to get 2MB Chip ram on mine.

[tone007]

Games (especially older ones) were mainly designed to work with the plain old A500 with the trapdoor memory upgrade, you can actually lose compatibility hacking around with things, or so I've heard.