Just Bought a "New" Amiga 500

[mr_a500]

[/quote]To be honest mate I think I'm just curious to see how pimped out so to speak you can make the A500 while still running the old games I play and love.[/quote]

I have my A500 "pimped out" about as far as possible and it still runs every game I want it to through WHDload. See a screenshot and this thread about some things I've done with it. This thread has a couple pictures of my hardware.

My upgrades were extremely hard to find though and expensive. As others have said, it probably would have been better if I got an A1200 and upgraded that instead.

(this post was posted with my A500)

[mr_a500]

@jjans

How is softkicking to 1.3 from 2.04 any easier than from 3.1? I have no problem whatsoever softkicking to 1.3 from 3.0/3.1. (not that I ever need to use it - WHDload solves any compatibility problem I ever had)

You do realise that the ultimate A500 was in fact a Checkmate.

No, I don't realise that. The current "Ultimate A500 of the Universe" is Lemmink's A500. He is one of three people in the world who has the elusive Viper 530. I only have the Viper 520. Still, I think I have the best OCS/ECS software configuration in the world - until someone else proves otherwise. (...and I hope they do so I can steal their ideas ;-))

[mr_a500]

The Checkmate was one of the few purpose designed computer cases of the day that was created around the Amiga 500. As such the fun and games you have trying to get all these expansions into the A500 small case can be avoided. The machine was labelled an A1500 before the 1500 and would comfortably house all that is shown in those images. As such it is in my view the ultimate A500.

Trying to cram expansions into the original case is part of the challenge. The case is part of the computer's identity. To me, if it doesn't look like an Amiga 500, it's not an Amiga 500. (A Karmann Ghia has mostly Beetle parts, but you don't call it a Beetle)

I am impressed that you managed to get such a rare Amiga, though. It certainly looks a lot better than the awful Bodega Bay case. I'm also impressed with your Amiga collection. I only have two A500s and an A1000.

jjans wrote:
Don't know, it used to work until I upgraded to WB 3.5, and I can no longer go back. Maybe 3.1 would have worked, but 3.5 won't, (I believe the later Kickstart patch runs in ram during boot)

That's strange. I used to also use 3.9 and never had a problem softkicking to 1.3 from that either. Maybe the upgrade deleted your A500 kickstart file or something.

What are you using?

I use the SKick program. (version 139.122)