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Re: A500 and games (not working)
« on: July 03, 2012, 12:24:19 PM »
The best Amiga 500 setup for classic Amiga games is Kickstart 1.3, 512k chip, 512k fast, normal Denise, 512k Fat Agnus.  Anotherwards, nothing fancy, a stock Amiga 500.  Also, make sure your disk drive can read past track 82.  Newer Amiga disk drives will not read past track 82, so many games, especially with copy protection, will not work, because the copy protection tells the drive to load code from track 83, 84, or 85.  So, make sure that the disk drive in your Amiga 500 computer can read past track 82.  Just google for the drives specs on the internet.
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Re: A500 and games (not working)
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2012, 12:31:43 PM »
If you really like a game, just buy it on eBay.  All of my favorite Amiga games are complete, with their original boxes, and they are in brand new condition.  Whenever another Amiga fan comes over to the house and sees my Amiga room, they are absolutely amazed at my Amiga software collection.  There is nothing like having the real game in your hands.  I see boxed Amiga games all the time on eBay for $5 to $20 each, that is how I got a lot of my games.
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Re: A500 and games (not working)
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2012, 01:50:47 PM »
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I know Denise, Fat Agnus and Lisa are main components of OCS/ECS chipset (right ?), but I don't know what are "normal" Denise and 512k Fat Agnus. What other Denis/Agnus chips are there ? I bought my Amiga from a guy (it's been opened, can tell by looking at the bottom silver sticker being damaged), so maybe ... ah, I don't know, looking (grasping ? :) ) for straws here, just trying to figure out why 15 out of 20 top games on my "I REALLY want to play list" games don't work.
 
Thanks for your suggestions anywayz.

The 512k Agnus is 8370. The normal Denise chips are 8362R6 and 8362R8 (Half-Bright Denise). These numbers are for the NTSC versions of the chips. Check the Big Book of Amiga Hardware website for the PAL versions. Give me a list of the games you like and I will make the disks, test them on my stock Amiga 500, and then I will ship them to you, just pay me for postage :)  Also, I do have a spare 8370 Agnus chip I can mail to you for FREE, but, I do not know if it will also work in PAL mode.
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Re: A500 and games (not working)
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2012, 02:07:03 PM »
A Teac fd-235hf 3218-u pc disk drive works very well with Amiga computers, and they fit the Amiga 500 nicely.  They do read out to track 85.  You can find these disk drives in PC recycle centers.  I buy them by the box-load  :)
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