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A500 – A500+ |
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1987 $595(USA) – £599(UK)
1990 £395(UK)
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Boxed Value Pack A500+ 1990: 017148
Amiga 500 1987: 399759
Amiga 500+ 1991: 1081043, 164317 |
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1986 & 1988 |
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Motorola MC 68000 16 BIT running at a frequency of 7.16 Mhz NTSC or 7.09 Mhz PAL |
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256 KB Rom (multitasking Amiga OS V1.2 later V1.3) & 512 KB Ram expandable to 9MB ( 512 KB Chip Ram + 512 KB Slow Ram + 8mb Fast Ram). |
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The Shape is very similar to the C128 with a light beige colour. Full QWERTY AT style keyboard with 93 keys. |
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The graphic capabilities of the Amiga 500 was handled by a custom chip called Daphne. In text mode display the computer is able to display a 60 X 32 & 80 X 32 resolution display. While in graphic Mode 320 X 256, 320 X 512, 640 X 256, 640 X 512 resolution display. The Amiga has a palette of 4096 Colors + 2 special modes. In 320 X x Mode it was capable of displaying 32 Colours, while in 640 X x mode it could display 16 Colours. The special modes are EHB 64 Colours and HAM 4096 colours on static display. These 2 special modes could display and digitize a photo into the computers memory and save it to disk. The A500+ resolution is the same as the A500 with an additional mode in NTSC of 1280 X 400 interlaced resolution and 1280 X 200 non interlaced mode. |
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The Amiga is also equipped with a 4 Voice 8 bit PCM Stereo sound chip ( 2Channels on each side) that could produce an infinite of sounds and music. This custom chip code named Portia was also controlling the I/O ports of the machine. This helped to produce devices that could digitize sound into the computer, for later playback. |
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1x Centronics Printer Port
1x RS232 Port
1x Mouse/Joystick Port
1x Joystick Port
1x RGB Monitor Connection
1x Composite Monitor Connection
2x Phono Plugs for External left & right Audio Connectors
1x Bus Port.
1x Expansion Port
1x Disk Drive Port for external Drives |
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The usual Commodore external power supply very similar to the C128. Connector is the same as the C128, but voltages and pinouts totally different, lighter & auto switching mode with an output of 23 Watts. |
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Weight & dimensions for the Amiga 500 or Amiga 500+ are 3.4Kg, 470 x 325 x 55 mm, (W x L x H). |
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more than 4 Million units around the world. |