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Re: A500 vs. A1200
« on: June 25, 2004, 07:23:18 AM »
An older Amiga 500, with 512K of Chip memory and 512K of Fast memory would be best for games.  A lot of the classic Amiga games expect to find the start of Fast memory at the same memory location that is being used by the second 512K of Chip memory in the newer 1-Meg Chip memory Amigas.  So many of these cool games will not work.  Get yourself an older Amiga 500, 2000, or 1000 computer for games.  Make sure that it only has 512K of Chip memory.  You could add a switch with 5 wires to a newer Amiga 500's motherboard to turn off the extra 512K of Chip memory.  Then all of the older really cool Amiga games will work.  I did this to my Amiga 500 Tower of Power.  It works great.  I throw the switch up and I have 1-meg Chip ram, down and I have 512K of Chip ram.  Email me and I can tell you how to do it.     :-)
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