Amiga 500 Part 1

In Part 1 I will go over the history and specs of the Amiga 500.

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People & Blogs

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• Commodore
• Amiga
• 500
• A500

[TeamRocketReviews]

Is this PAL or NTSC?

[MN12BIRD]

@TeamRocketReviews It's a North American model so it's NTSC

[bushgamer]

i recently bought an 2 amiga 500s and a huge load of games, mostly boxed... for £20! now how do i set it up?

[MN12BIRD]

LOL you will need either one of its special RGB monitors or the little video output box to hook it up to a TV.

[Airjet2582]

Why was the Amiga so underrated. I was unaware of it existence until checking various videogame site like Gamefaqs. The computer system seems to have decent amount of games. Hell their "Shadow of the Beast" game is far superior than the Seag Genesis port.

[MN12BIRD]

Because we live in North America the system thrived in Europe it was SUPER popular over there.

[blade004]

@Alevamltd Exactly right!, and let's not forget the EHB Mode which could display 64 colours on screen which some games utilised, but some programmers could push the amount of colours on screen to about 300 with games like Lionheart.

[TeamRocketReviews]

@MN12BIRD You really should have gotten the PAL version and used converters to get it to work on an NTSC monitor/TV. The Amiga was more popular in the UK, so most games need to be played on a PAL machine.

[DeckerFI]

D'oh. Meant to say: "with a built-in SCSI CONTROLLER".

[DeckerFI]

The typical way of installing a hard drive for amiga was to buy a cased external hard drive with a built-in SCSI hard drive. These were very expensive back in the day but didn't require any modding.

They plugged into the expansion slot where you have your memory exp. connected. Mine was a GVP HD8+ which also contained a 4Mb Memory upgrade.

[cobrachoppergirl]

It really didn't become common.... it was too expensive for the C=64 masses to upgrade to... when I first played with MacPaint on a Mac Plus, I dumped my Amiga dreams like a lame rock. Mac OS at that early point was so much better than Amiga's Windows 1.0 looking over sized icon OS.

[BrianPicchi]

Great machine that I never knew about until the last couple years. Grew up in the states and used the Apple IIGS (which is an awesome machine too, but with no where near the volume of awesome games). Now I have an Atari ST, Amiga 500, and Apple IIGS.

[TJae1]

the computerworld dude said PC rulzed w/ games :(

bck then ~

[MrAnthropophagy]

Way ahead of it's time and superior to the DOS machines. Very popular here in the UK in the late 80s and early 90s. I was a 13/14 year old schoolboy when I got an Amiga 500. It was awesome and a lot of my friends had one too. Far better than the Sega Master System and NES for games but was also a good home computer too.