Why is NTSC Amiga 500+ so hard to find?

[AmigaClassicRule]

I don't have one, but, wasn't a 1200-style clock port just released for the A500?  Isn't there an ethernet expansion board for the clockport?

There it is http://www.vesalia.de/e_a500clockport.htm and it seems to work on an A500. Sadly it is not available for sale in any means.  So now technically speaking I can actually have a clockport in my Amiga 500 which in return allows me to have a WiFi support in my A500. That is super sweet! Knowing the fact that I can have internal HD, and internal WiFi..simply scotch tape the metallic with tape to avoid short circuiting the motherboard, install the clockport, install the USB Sub, place a WiFi card and poof problem solved.  I have a working A500 with internet connection....the fact there is a solution for it..makes me happy Even if I cannot achieve that solution lol

[x56h34]

One question...you managed to install 2 MB CHIP RAM (which to me is not really that much of a priority), but then you installed an internal E-Matrix 530 accelerator which is awesome...and I knew it...you can install a 2.5" IDE HD and you installed that 40 GB inside of it...which is again super awesome...and you are even going as far as installing an internal slim-line CD-R drive...you must be going out of your way and damaging your case to fit it...I am sure you will do a good job at it...

But here comes the real question...is there anyway we can install a PCMCI like A1200 to have WiFi internet or internet in the Amiga 500 all together? Is there anyway we can have internet connection on Amiga 500 without the need to using serial cable...but have fast speed internet connection on an Amiga 500 with like 300 Kb/sec transfer on the internet?

Hi,

Whoa it's been a while since I posted that original message.
I have since sold the accelerator, however kept the A500+. I never did install an internal CD-R drive...

There is no way to rig an A500 with some sort of a PCMCIA adapter. Perhaps it's theoretically possible, should someone eventually develop an A500 expansion port to PCMCIA module or something (pure guessing, if at all possible).

I was able to use in the past an A500 expansion port to Zorro II adapter and plug in a Zorro ethernet card (I believe from what I remember that I tried Ariadne with it), in tandem with the E-Matrix accelerator. It was such a big clunk of hardware all put together, however at the same time kind of fun, pure for the fact that it could be done and it actually worked...

[amigakid]

I have an A500+ MB that I got from a pile of misc amiga stuff thrown in a barn.  I cleaned it up and it works great.  The A500+MB if I remember is alot different compared to the A500 MB in trace designs, as well as has 1MB RAM on board and of course say A500+.  I can throw a PIC on here when I get home later if anyon likes.  Oh yeah I also got a A2500HD that I restored and a A500/500+/600? Midget Racer 020 accelorator card (never seen one before this I was super excited).  By the way OI have the A500+ MB housed in a A500 case now and purrs like a kitten

[Amiga_Nut]

I wouldn't mind a regular A500 NTSC motherboard too as whilst I can run my PAL A1200 in NTSC Lotus II doesn't bloody work on anything but OCS/ECS machines, even if you bought the trilogy pack ooof.

Shame because running that in NTSC not only fills the screen fully but also makes the best Amiga arcade racer even more silky smooth, we are talking Sharp x68000 Full Throttle (Taito) conversion speed