Kickstart 1.2 or 1.3

[dougal]

For best compatibility and speed use KS 3.1 with WHDLoad and hard drive.

WHDLoad requires 1MB chipram & 2MB+ fastram to work properly.

There are a couple of games that need 2MB chipram. Wizkid WHDLoad for example will not run without 1.1MB.

You can use WHDLoad without fastram but that would mean having to disable the PRELOAD option which makes the games work much worse than if you had to play them from floppy disks.

[dougal]

If you want an A500 for classic games to be played from floppy disk your best option would  probably be an A500 with Kickstart 1.3 (or 1.2) + 512K expansion. (512K chipram + 512K Slowram).

If you want a classic A500 to use WHDLoad your best oprion will probably be an A500+ with a 1MB trapdoor expansion & a harddrive/fastram expansion such as an A590 or the Kipper fastram/compact flash IDE board & upgrade the kickstart to 3.1.

A500+ has the advantage that it can address 2MB chipram WITHOUT any expensive MiniMegi chip or similar. The A500 can only address 1MB chipram as standard.