What is the most powerfull Amiga setup for gaming? Beyond A500?

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To run original games? As in the majority of the games ever written? An A500 with 1Meg and KS1.3 is all you need, maybe adding a few external floppy drives.

The vast majority of old school games were made to run on an OCS or ECS based machine with KS1.3.  Some older games will refuse to run on this but most will. There are also degrading tricks to help run stubborn older games.

Newer Amigas with heavy expansions don't do much to improve
old school games.

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To put in simple terms without going into an miga history.

The Amiga 500 is the most compatible for old games.

There were games made later on that will not be compatible for one reason or another. Yes there is still a few new games coming out to this day for the Amiga. Quake II is the last one I can think of.

When looking for games for your Amiga 500 most of them will say "For Amiga 1000 500 2000", but some may say "For OCS/ECS".

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By the way, welcome to Amiga.org!! I hope you enjoy your stay:-)

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Oh yeah, KS stands for KickStart. This is the part of the operating system that resides on a rom inside the computer. The Amiga 500 over the years came with KS1.2, KS1.3 and KS2.04. The one you would preferably want is KS1.3. To find out simply turn on the computer with no floppy disks inserted and see what the prompter says. If it is not KS1.3 you may want to consider buying and replacing the KickStart.

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x56h34 wrote:
Amiga 500 with KS1.2 will be just as compatible as 1.3. Have you honestly ever ran into a game that doesn't boot on 1.2 and does on 1.3?

Yes!!!!!!!! (!!!!!!!!)

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AGA is the graphics chipset that came in the Amiga 1200, Amiga 4000 and CD32 computers. It is newer than the original OCS/ECS graphics chipsets that came in the earlier Amigas and is not 100% backwards compatible. Any game written for AGA will not run on an Amiga 500. Luckily there was very few games that were AGA only.

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jeffimix wrote:
Don't Feed The Troll.

You're a troll :-?

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