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A600 can never be 100% A500 compatible because A600 is missing the Numeric Keypad and some games require that.

But you should be able to get 99.8% compatible.
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Re: Amiga 600 with kick 1.3, is it 100% Amiga 500 compatible?
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2013, 09:05:29 AM »
A game that works on OCS will work on ECS too.  ECS is a big Win \o/.

Some badly coded games are incompatible with 1MB chipram tho.  So u can use Degrader or other similar tool to disable the extra memory temporarily and get such a game working.

Some games are incompatible with extra floppy drives attached.  So u can just use Degrader or other similar tool to disable the extra drives temporarily.

I used to hardcore test game compatiblity with a giant stack of different Amiga models and I kept a list of all the games and what their requirements were so when I had a game party I could quickly get any game in the universe working.

There are a few games which are tremendously badly coded and they just won't work on Kickstart 1.3, you MUST use Kickstart 1.2 on those few games.  And there are a few others, mostly old EA games that require KS 1.1 (Arctic Fox, etc.)

There are probably at least 24 games that won't work on KS 2.0+ and MUST be started with KS1.3 but I did not really test for that.  I was mainly testing 1.2 vs. 1.3,
512K chip vs 1MB or 2MB chip,
1 Floppy drive vs. 2 floppy drives,
PAL vs. NTSC.  (huge numbers of games won't work in the wrong video mode)

Sometimes a game will work perfectly on your machine but then when u install a trainer suddenly the game has bizarre limitations (such as one of the things listed above).   So u hafta watch out for "Virgin Game" vs. "Trained Game" differences.

There were also a couple of games that would not work if you had a modem plugged in.  DOH!
Wanna try a wonderfull strategy game with lots of handdrawn anims,
Magic Spells and Monsters, Incredible playability and lastability,
English speech, etc. Total Chaos AGA