Just Bought a "New" Amiga 500

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If you use it and enjoy it, no way it is overpaid. If you mainly want games, IMO stick with KS1.3. If you want to also upgrade, buy a Kickstart switcher and have both KS1.3 and KS3.1 at the flip of a switch.

Enjoy! :-)

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Darklight wrote:
OCS/ECS games are indeed playable on an A1200, but it also plays AGA games as well.  There are incompatibilities with a few games and KS 3.1, but those are usually fixed by patches, etc.  

I do believe you are understating this a bit IMO. There is a wide range of game incompatabilities of older (1.3 era) games with KS3.1. I used a loaded A500 for a few years and was driven mad by it to the point I started soft kicking into 1.3 just to play games.

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@davidmace

Years ago, about ~1998-1999 I had a loaded out A500. It was a lot of fun and back then with amiga prices still relatively high it was what I could afford for a hobbyist computer. There are a lot of limitations with with a loaded A500 compared to it's big box brothers. Keep this in mind as a consideration before you dump big bucks upgrading.

It all depends what you want to do. If you want to upgrade to the point you can ue major internet apps, consider picking up at least an A2000 instead.

Hmm.. Back in the day there were no clockport adapters for the A500.. Now there are, and I am salivating thinking how much I would have LOVED to have a Silver Surfer on my old A500 set up :-( Darn, you guys make me want to buy another Amiga! :-/