Amiga 600 the worst?

[mrmoonlight]

Hi,i have just read an old post that said,according to Amiga CU magazine, the Amiga 600 is the worst Amiga model that you can buy.
Now whys that then ? as its the first one I turn on in a morning and I have five to choose from but the A600 does its job very well
as in
1 It will surf the net all day as long as I keep the colour down a little
2 It will play wav pop music all day and multitask very well at the same time'
3 It will play Games until the cows come home .
4 It will paint,Draw and more than amuse me.
so is there more ?
best wishes Brian.
 
 

[mrmoonlight]

-A600 is harder to expand than most other Amiga variants. (CPU, fast RAM)
-It's the least compatible with non AGA games
-it does not have numeric keypad

+it does have HDD interface as standard
+you can easily have 2MB chip ram with it
+it's small
+it can do flixer free hires
+it's compact, no tv-modulator needed

I like A600, also I have one, but A1200 is the ultimate low end classic Amiga (I want one).

HI, thanks for reply  and I agree with all that you wrote,infact it nearly has it all,and I have the A1200 as well but the Amiga 600 is the one that gives me the greatest joy as in small and beautifully put together and even goes on holiday with me,simply the best best wishes Brian.

[mrmoonlight]

It was the low-end member of the Amiga range for a while, so I suppose it was "the worst Amiga model that you can buy" new at that time. The same could have been said of the A500, A500+, A1200, etc. at other times.

But certainly a decent machine. The worst Amiga in terms of capabilities would be the A1000. In terms of price/performance, I would propose the A2000: an extra thousand or two dollars (compared to A500) basically just for a few card slots.

 Hi thanks for reply seems A600 not so bad as first thought then but there again I never doubted the capabilities of this beauty, and interesting reading my friend best wishes Brian.

[mrmoonlight]

Me too!

And me too as it sounds interesting

[mrmoonlight]

With upgrades, if you are looking for a compact system, the 600 is really the way to go in my book. I got mine recapped and I'm loving it!!!

 
 Hi and I think I should start thinking about having mine recapped although she still blasts out a good tune
.best wishes Brian.

[mrmoonlight]

Brian you didnt take my advice before please do now DONT FIX IT IF IT AINT BROKEN. Dont replace the caps unless the machine fails.

 
 Hey Magnetic you are right my friend it took me hours to sort the last mess out and you said it was not a good idea to install the other two Boing bags so I will leave having the caps replaced until they begin to fail, as for the worst Amiga being the 600 it was wrote many moons ago  
      but I just found it outrages that anyone could even suggest that the A600 was the worst at anything, but  like folk have pointed out we have a wealth of add on accessories and kippers ACA620EC Accelerator sure did take her from a Mini to a RollsRoyce  and boy what fun the nearly forgotten little A600 turned out be, very best wishes Brian.

[mrmoonlight]

When the A600 was new it wasn't a very good machine. It was my first and I bought it with a massive 40MB harddrive but after upgrading it with 2MB chip I was pritty stuck. Sure there where PCMCIA fastmem you could expand with but it was very expencive.

Many years later we got drivers for PCMCIA NIC and CF. We got clockport for further expansion with sound and/or USB, with A603 and later we also have scandoubler possibilities with the IndivisionECS and lets not forget that after ACA630 there have been a wave of CPU and FastMem solutions in it's wake to fill the void after dead Apolloboards. So today it's a realy nifty little machine and certainly doesn't deserv the branding it once received due to lack of expandability.

Hi I think the more I read of the wonderful posts that have come in the more I can understand why the 600 was tagged with worst of the Amiga's as it seems it lacked quite a few ingredients to give it that wow factor and I think we should be very grateful to the dedicated folk who have toiled over all the software and hardware they have created to give us the brilliant little Amiga 600 of today , my very best wishes and thanks for your post Brian. ps below is my Amiga Beatle screen. sad or what lol

[mrmoonlight]

You need to be mindful of not reading things out of context. You appear to be making a generalisation based around what you are using the machine for today. In the days of the A4000, A1200, A600 and CD32 the A600 was the worst. The one I had was not even capable of supporting a hard drive. Yet my A1200 was accelerator friendly out of the box and ran rings round the A600. The A600 was really never one thing or another. It was not really suited as a games machine and was just not able to be expanded with ease. It really was a bit of a toy generally and used by those that didn't really treat their computing seriously. And if you were giving advice in the day there is no way you would suggest to anyone that wanted a machine that would last to consider anything other than a 1200 or 4000 which were the current best machines for the period. The A600 was pretty much dead in the water the day they released the A1200.

And for the comments from another about the 2000... different era.

When I bought my 1200 the shop was split into two halves. On the left was Amiga and on the right was PC. When greeted at the door the shop attendant would always point me to the more fun and entertaining Amiga section. There was only A1200s and A4000s on show. If you wanted an A600 you would have to go to Dixons or Jessops where they sold them with their cameras and video players. My sister had an A600 just to play Pictionary. The A600 just was not treated seriously, sorry.

As for today, well that is a different story. A great tool and fun to dabble with. Just get one that supports hard drives. No amount of creative mount lists ever got my first 600 to work with a hard drive. So I bought another that did. I must have a dozen 600s. Don't use them. The 4000s and 1200s still rule here.

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz93.htm

Well I have just read a passage out of your retro link above lol and it does not get any better does it
 quote
 
 Machines like the A600 were used by kids as a games
console so they would have generally been constantly bombarded
with disks, and further, the ports would have been plugged in
and plugged out many many times. The A600 did not expand easily
and only certain A600s supported the hard-drive so the floppy
usage is a killer
       lol  nice read up my friend very best wishes Brian.

[mrmoonlight]

1: A4000T
2: A1200
3: A4000
4: A3000T
5: A3000
6: A600
5: A500
7: the rest

So in my book it's not the worst.

Well that's that then lol :laughing: best wishes Brian.

[mrmoonlight]

Wasn't the whole reason for compatibility issues due to a 2.X ROM? I always wondered if a ROM switcher with an added 1.X ROM would bring better compatibility to the A600...

Love the Beatles backdrop Brian!

Hi gizmo350 thanks for the Beatle thumbs up, I have been a huge fan from the age of 4yrs old and never get tired of listening to them and I have to say I fell off the chair watching your cat lol  brilliant, thanks for looking in best wishes Brian.:laughing::laughing:

[mrmoonlight]

Hi thanks to everyone for posting I never for a moment thought the A600 would have generated so much interest and indeed have quite a following for some thing that started off as the worst Amiga lol so thanks again and this is the last Beatle pic of my set up, best wishes Brian.
 
 
 

[mrmoonlight]

At that time you could get an A500+ with a lot of expansions. In comparison the A600 had little expandability. Both the same spec.

Hi I wonder why Commodore bothered to release,what I suppose must have been a really low spec machine compared to what else there was to choose from. very best wishes Brian.