Hi have any of you noticed that Commodore 128D looks a lot like Amiga 1000. i have a 128D but no Amiga 1000 :-( but from the pictures i have seen they look a lot like each other
The Commodore 128D (not metal cased model of course, just the plastic one) and the Commodore PC-1 look identical except for the keyboard. It's only an 8086 based PC but hell it's a lot more elegant than those IBM breeze blocks
The colour is different too I find. I have a brand new (was sealed when purchased) port cover for A1000 side expansion Zorro slot and it's is more white than the 64C or 128/128D plastics to me.
Going back to 1985 A1000 vs 1987 A500/A2000 all are limited to 512kb chipram and 8mb fast ram AFAIK. The main difference with Amiga 500 is you didn't need to use the side expansion for a 512 chip + 512 fast ram using the trapdoor ram adaptors but on the A1000 512kb all chipram is max memory without Zorro 1 side expansion/internal acceleration. That's about it really in general, don't get me wrong I liked my A2000 too but the cool stuff like VLAB Y/C came out over half a decade later. Excellent keyboards on A2000s as well. They are damned noisy and don't fancy getting a hernia every time I need to switch an A500 on and off (even Atari STs had on/off switch on unit not PSU and C64 and Vic 20....)
In fact I am going to be selling two A2000 keyboards on pissbay soon, not like I will stumble on just a working motherboard cheaper than a complete yellowed A2000 anyway
The A4000's HD floppy drive did come in really handy in the 90s with cross-dos though, and you only get that on the A4000. The A1200 really could have done with that drive for a few pence more than the 880kb thing. Super SF2 comes on 8 floppies and needs constant swapping, it's a nightmare!!
