Amiga 1000 versus Amiga 500

[JimS]

amiga_3k wrote:
Design-wise the A1000 is a neat machine. Most, if not all, custom-chips on it should be replaceable by A500 versions making it as good / bad as the A500.  

The A1000 uses the DIP version of the Agnus chip. It's not compatible with the PLCC version in the 500/2000. unless you find one of those phoenix boards. :-)

I've got a ROM board in my 1000, that's a handy thing to have.... autoboots from an external HD, so I don't have to worry about the broken internal floppy.
:-)

[JimS]

Zac67 wrote:
Furthermore, Kickstart 2+ is out of reach without a ROM board. Nostalgic.

I believe there's a hack on Aminet to add a ROM to the 1000.