Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: A500 512KB Chip VS A500 1MB Chip  (Read 8138 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline psxphill

Re: A500 512KB Chip VS A500 1MB Chip
« on: December 07, 2012, 06:31:25 PM »
Quote from: desiv;717948
Only near the end of life when they were stuffing a few A500+ motherboards in the A500 cases, as I understand it, and then the A500+'s.

I never heard of any revision 6 motherboards being shipped with 1mb of ram, even though they obviously designed it specifically for that. However it would conflict with memory in the trapdoor and they didn't include a clock on the motherboard. So I doubt they shipped any with the memory on board and I can't see them fitting a memory expansion to them.
 
The revision 8 in an a500 case was down to marketing as far as I can tell. For some reason they didn't launch the a500+ in some markets. It turned up in the UK early due to the last a500's being on a ship when demand stripped the supply in the run up to Christmas, all they ready were a500+'s that could be put on a plane. These did ship with 1mb of chip ram, and with kickstart 1.3. I wouldn't bother with an a500+ though, an a500 with trapdoor memory expansion is fine for floppy games. For anything else an a1200 is better.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: A500 512KB Chip VS A500 1MB Chip
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2012, 09:40:11 PM »
Quote from: Zac67;717971
A - real - A500+ does support 2 MB chip ram though... ;)

You can get 2mb chip ram on an a500, but it's just not worth it.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: A500 512KB Chip VS A500 1MB Chip
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2012, 04:29:42 PM »
Quote from: Zac67;718083
Nope. Without A19 and _EXRAM being correct it's still $C00000 'slow' RAM.

I've ended up selling my A1500, but that was setup for 1mb chip ram and loads of software refuses to run on it (it's kickstart 1.3).