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Contents 1 Commodore Amiga 500 1.1 The Hardware 1.2 The Games 1.3 Useful Websites

Commodore Amiga 500

The Hardware

• KICKSTARTS:
  • 1.2
  • 1.3
  • 2.04
  • ROM chip was a 40-pin DIP.

• CPU:
  • Motorola 68000 at 7.14MHz

• FPU:
  • None

• CUSTOM CHIPS:
  • Denise - 8362 Denise
  • Paula - Standard Paula
  • Agnus - 8370 for REV3 and 5 Motherboard, 8372A in REV6 Motherboard, 8375 in REV7 Motherboard (500+)
  • Gary - Fat Gary

• RAM:
  • CHIP RAM: 512k on motherboard
  • FAST RAM: none shipped with machine. The 512k expansion in the trapdoor configures as FAST RAM but only runs as fast as CHIP RAM due to the bus limitation. Maximum autoconfigging RAM in this slot is 2.3 MEG.

• PORTS:
  • 15KHz Video
  • External Disk drive
  • Parallel Port
  • Serial Port
  • Mouse/Joystick ports
  • 5-pin Square DIN Power Port
  • Left and Right RCA Audio

• SLOTS:
  • 1 86-pin external expansion slot on the left for hard-drives, RAM expansion, digitizers, etc.
  • 1 Trapdoor RAM expansion underneath

• MOTHERBOARD REVISIONS:
  • 3.x Avoid
  • 5 8370 Agnus
  • 6 8372A 1 Meg Agnus
  • 8A Amiga 500+ 8375 Agnus and 8373 SuperDenise

Above specifications courtesy of the Amiga Auckland web site.

The Games

A full list of Commodore Amiga games documented on GamerWiki can be found at the Commodore Amiga category. Please add any further games to the games to be added page.

(Anything below here in the games section needs to be removed if the game is in blue or moved over to the the games to be added page list if it's in red.)

• Alien Breed (Amiga)
• Bomb Jack (Amiga)
• Dungeon Master (Amiga) (Mirrorsoft) / (FTL)
• Robocop
• Shadow of the Beast (Amiga) (Psygnosis)
• Zynaps (Amiga)

Useful Websites