Just Bought a "New" Amiga 500

[scuzzb494]

Dave

Always amazes me how folk say they are missing the Amiga and currently have a fast PC, then start talking about emulating the PC with more RAM, CDROM, hard drives, accelerators. For goodness sake, save your money. Just enjoy the 500 Commando.. ie as it was intended. Sure, get a 590 or a GVP HD+ ( better ) and a small amount of trapdoor RAM. If your gonna waste £50 get an A1200 and stop mucking about. Have the two set up and start modifying the A1200 for the fun of it... The A500 is far too restricting ( sorry ) I have two dozen A500s all in varying forms, some with the 3.1ROM and even accelerators. But my basic A500 with GVP sidecar is good to go every day for gaming... Mostly Space Invaders. The 1200s are seriously upgraded and networked. I would start steady and then work your way up through the classic kit... And then you`ll never touch your PC again.

Get a good monitor... Not the TV.

If you wanna see my kit then click the link.
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com

scuzz

[scuzzb494]

PS

If you wanna see what an accelerator does to the inside of an A500 then take a look at my A5000

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz360.htm

scuzz

[scuzzb494]

Hi

You do realise that the ultimate A500 was in fact a Checkmate. Check out the images from my website of mine which I acquired for £42 together with a whole room full of kit...

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz86.htm

A1500 System by Checkmate Digital Limited which has an Amiga A500 at its base...

An A1500 ( prior to Commodore version ) with A500 fitted.
Included also is an A590 XT 20Mb version sidecar with half Mb plus additional external 50MB hard-drive, 5.25 and 3.25" external floppy drives, and a 1084S monitor. The machine is fitted with the 2.04 OS and version 2.0 Roms. Probably retailed for about £1200 in its day

Other features for this machine include the Megachip 2000/500 giving 2Mb of chip RAM, the Multistart II which allowed the installation of the Kickstart V2.0 ROMS, Workbench Management System 2.0 by TTR, teletext add-on and scanner.

Evidently the popularity of this model concerned Commodore sufficiently to warrant the release of the official A1500 to the UK market only

There you go.

I do agree that the A500 gives bags of fun. I wouldn`t be without mine..

scuzz

[scuzzb494]

Hi

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. As to the acceleration and other gadgets, I can appreciate what has been done here... And I would love to get my hands on that Viper. However, I have my A1200 with internal IDE, 2 SCSI hard drives, Blizzard and SCSI kit, CDRom, ZIP drive, Ethernet on PCMCIA and modern monitor, with 32MB modest RAM. And it does all this with ease... I use my A500 to play Space Invaders... Saying that I have about a dozen A500s.. I do like them. Red LED or Green LED.. What's your serial number ? :-)

scuzz

[scuzzb494]

Hi

I do like the GVP sidecar. Wish I could get hold of the 040 version... One day no doubt.

I do enjoy it when I read what kit people have tagged onto their mails... And so here is my base list of Amigas. Though I do have many many many more.. Along with 160 or so other makes of retro computer...

scuzz

 A500  
 A500 3.1 A5000
 A500Plus
 A600
 A600HD
 A500 plus A690 ( yes A690 )
 Amiga 1000
 A1200
 A1200HD
 A1200HD/40
 A1200Tower
 A1500
 Checkmate
 A2000
 A2000HD
 A2000 3.1ROM
 A3000
 A3000T
 A3000UX
 A4000d
 A4000T
 CD32
 CDTV
 CD32 plus SX32

 http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com