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There are a couple of ways to switch ROMs on an A500. The first is to get a hardware ROM switcher - for that, you need both ROMs, and I think there's some keyboard shortcut or something to switch to the desired ROM.

Another way is, if your A500 is expanded with fast RAM, to get a softkick program which will load the alternate ROM into memory. This takes up a lot of memory, especially on a 1MB Amiga, however. Also, legally a bit dodgy.

Basically the further away you move from the Kickstart 1.3, the 68000 CPU and OCS, the harder it gets to run the old games, so A1200 has the A500/KS2 compatibility problems and more.

But I gave my A500 away when I got an A1200 some time ago, and I never had much trouble playing the games I wanted to play. I'd say get an A1200, and if the price is right, and you have the space for it, an A500 with KS1.3 and some fastram to complement it :-)

For the A500, I used a GVP HD for a while. There's two models I remember, the Impact II HD8+ series, which gave you a HD and allowed for further memory expansion, or the A530 Turbo, which gave you a 40MHz 68030 processor on top of that :-D

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