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Re: Find amiga 500 today )
« on: January 12, 2014, 01:00:22 PM »
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It has been opened, see sticker on the back. The gap between the top and bottom shells is visible.

Keyboard layout is Italian, so the manuals would be in either Italian (if made in that language) or English.
It may be the lighting, but some keys seem lower than others. Check the springs underneath.

Documentation could match KS 1.3 or KS 2.04 as this version of A500 ("reduced" A500+) was sold with both.

KS 2.04 models came with "Introducing the A500 and A500+" and "Using the Amiga Workbench" IIRC (gray covers).

KS 1.3 ones should come with "A500 user's manual" and "Amiga Basic" and "Enhancer software" covering Amiga DOS 1.3 (white covers). That said, I think Amiga Basic was taken away from the Extras disk of (some?) international 1.3.3 versions, but the Amiga Basic manual was still included.
 

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Re: Find amiga 500 today )
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2014, 01:07:59 PM »
A520 manual should only be included if the A520 modulator was also bundled. This was not always the case.

EDIT: Ah, just saw in that last pic that you indeed got the A520 as well. So yes, there should be an A520 manual too.
 

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« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2014, 01:17:46 PM »
Yes, just keep in mind that these manuals match KS 2.04, not KS 1.3.
 

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« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2014, 03:54:52 PM »
The photo you posted is of a Workbench 2.04 3-disk set, not of Kickstart 2.04 (which is a ROM chip).

You still have not mentioned which Kickstart version this A500 has so you can't get a correct answer until you do.
 

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Re: Find amiga 500 today )
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2014, 01:02:50 AM »
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Your Amiga is not exactly an A500+, it uses the same rev8 motherboard and custom chips as the A500+ but it has been factory configured without half the RAM, without the Real Time Clock and without the capability to add 1 MB chip RAM on the trapdoor slot, so essentially it has been brought down to plain old A500 specifications and was actually sold as such.

So it's best to think of it as an A500 and not as an A500+. Commodore certainly believed so ;) (it's a potential A500+, if you like, but you must install all the missing components before it becomes an A500+).

Accordingly, as it was shipped with KS 1.3 (A500+ was never shipped with KS 1.3 btw), these manuals are correct.