 Although the Amiga 600 was released before the Amiga 1200 this machine is a cut down version of it. The machine is very compact and neat. It was released mainly for games and as a replacement of the C64c. The A600 is compatible with the A500, but some games does not work due to the missing keypad. As a magnetic media The A600 used an internal Disk Drive capable of saving 800Kb on a disk. The hardware peripherals are also compatible, except for the trapdoor memory card, which they have a smaller connection. All chipsets are surface mounted for a better price and space. The new features on this machine included a build in RF modulator, a hard disk controller and a PCMCIA slot 2 card connector. The PCMCIA card was added for extra memory and to connect a modem. This helped users to connect on BBS terminals and play games. As an operating system the A600 was shipped with Workbench V2.04. although they removed GWBasic the OS was an improvement on the A500. The A600HD is the same machine but included a 20MB hard Drive and an additional manual for installing the OS on the Drive. Due to insufficient publicity and with new powerful machines showing up on the market it did not make a great success with the public.
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| A600 – A600HD |
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| 1992 – £399(UK) |
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| 8513692315997015M037604 |
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| 1991 |
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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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| 512 KB Rom (multitasking Amiga OS V2.05) & 1 MB Ram expandable to 109MB ( 2 MB Chip Ram + 8 MB Fast Ram) |
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| The Amiga 600 case is very compact in size with a very Light Beige/White colour and a full 78 keys integral QWERTY non standard style keyboard. The Amiga 600 does not have a numeric keypad. |
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| The graphic capabilities of the Amiga 600 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 A600 like the A500+ was also capable to display pictures of 1280 X 400 interlaced resolution and 1280 X 200 non interlaced mode. This mode was only available when you inserted an extra memory card. |
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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 RCA Phono Plugs External left & right Audio Connectors
1x RF modulator
1x PCMCIA Slot 2
1x Internal 44 pin AT/IDE interface for hard drives.
1x Expansion Port
1x External Disk Drive connector with daisy chain capabilities |
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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 600HD are 2.3 kg including Hard Disk, 355 x 242 x 67 mm (W x L x H). |
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| less then 1 Million unit around the world. |
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The club currently owns one Commodore Amiga 600HD complete with a Commodore carrying case, 3 manuals, RF lead, RGB Cable, 512k Expansion Ram, 20 MB HD, Sound Digitizer, Commodore mouse, PCMCIA Modem & power supply. The system is not boxed but its in excellent working condition.
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