A500+ vs. A600

[paul1981]

The A600 has crappy smd capacitors which are leaking and wrecking boards as we speak.
The A500 is more desirable in that aspect (providing the barrel battery has been removed before motherboard damage).

You can't have a DMA connected hard disk on the A600. So another feather in the A500's cap.

I read somewhere though that you can't have graffiti emulation for Doom on the A500 with the IndivisionECS. Maybe I'm wrong... Can anyone clear this up?

Size, well if size doesn't matter then it makes no odds. I prefer the A600 size wise. If you want an 80's feel, then go for the A500.

[paul1981]

A500+ is better. The a600 trapdoor is essentially ram+rtc only, the same as the trapdoor in the A500. It's only the A1200 trapdoor that is equivalent to the expansion port on the A500+.

However the A500+ does not support Zorro I, those are used by the Ranger add on (and also the third party versions that were actually released) for the A1000 and are just a different shape to Zorro II cards.

Officially the slot on the side of the A500+ is called the "86-Pin Slot Expansion" and it's roughly compatible to the A2000 CPU slot, some accelerators were compatible with both. http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/supra28

There was a PC emulator card for the A600's trapdoor, but it is very rare. The IndivisionECS can be mounted in here too on top of one of Jen's chip ram expansions (A603, A604).

[paul1981]

I have both.
A500+ 2MB chip, 2MB fast (below 68k) and 2MB fast ACA500
A600 ACA620.

A500 is better for me, A600 is to hot and hard to repair.

I have a little hot A600 as well. It runs a bit on the warm side mind you.

[paul1981]

What part of the A600 gets hot?
Mines hot, but that's my own fault xD

All of it. Custom chips run hot, 68000 runs hot.