Amiga 1000 versus Amiga 500

[Zac67]

Kickstarting the 1000 is a very nostalgic thing to do - but very annoying if you happen to add a hard drive. Furthermore, Kickstart 2+ is out of reach without a ROM board. Nostalgic.

I'd rather go with a 1200 - faster out of the box, 2 MB RAM (even chip RAM), and the cheapest and most easily available expansions.

[Zac67]

The A1000 Agnuses for PAL and NTSC differ, so it's completely impossible to switch around. An NTSC Agnus will only show the top 200 lines (+overscan) for PAL screens and a PAL Agnus will always run a background colored/black border at the bottom for NTSC screens.

The first A500/A2000 Agnuses were the same, but when I expanded my A500 to 1 MB chip, the new Agnus was able to switch via software and some socket pin.