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Hello
everyone and welcome to the past. This site is dedicated to the
owner of The Games Arena's next computer the Commodore Amiga
500/500+/600/1200. Hope you enjoy the site and here is a little introduction.
COMMODORE
AMIGA - The Speccy and C64
panicked when this arrived. The Amiga was '16 bit', which meant twice as
powerful as previous computers. A proper keyboard, thousands of colours,
games that loaded in an instant from disk- this was the future. It didn't
take off at first, thanks to a stupefyingly high £1000 price point, but as the
price began to drop, so the punters began to flock. As a rival, the Amiga
had the less popular Atari ST. And with some of the best titles around
like Cannon Fodder, Sensible Soccer and Alien Breed it began to
dominate.
RECOMMENDED
SYSTEM PRICE £35-40 (depending on model)
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TOP
10
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RAINBOW
ISLANDS
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POPULOUS
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SENSIBLE
SOCCER
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LEMMINGS
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THE
SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND
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THE
CHAOS ENGINE
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WORMS
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LOTUS
TURBO CHALLENGE
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INDIANA
JONES AND THE FATE OF ATLANTIS
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SHADOW
OF THE BEAST
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Technical
Specs
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| NAME |
AMIGA
500 / 500+ |
| MANUFACTURER |
Commodore |
| TYPE |
Home
Computer |
| ORIGIN |
U.S.A.
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| YEAR |
April 1987 |
| CPU |
Motorola
MC 68000 |
| SPEED |
7.14
mHz |
| COPROCESSOR |
Agnus
(MMU), Denise (video), Paula (Sound & I/O) |
| RAM |
512
KB (expandable to 9MB : 512 KB CHIP RAM + 512 KB Slow
RAM + 8 MB FAST RAM) |
| ROM |
256
KB (DOS 1.2) |
| TEXT MODES |
60
x 32 / 80 x 32 |
| GRAPHIC MODES |
320
x 256 / 320 x 512 / 640 x 256 / 640 x 512 |
| COLORS |
32
(for 320 x X modes), 16 (for 640 x X modes) among 4096 +
2 Special modes : EHB 64 colors and HAM 4096 colors on
static display. |
| SOUND |
4
voice 8 bit PCM |
| I/O PORTS |
Centronics,
RS232, Mouse, Joystick, RGB, Composite, External Audio,
Bus |
| BUILT IN MEDIA |
one
3.5'' disk-drive |
| OS |
AMIGA
WorkBench 1.2 (first deliveries) then 1.3 |
| POWER SUPPLY |
External
PSU |
| PRICE |
£599
(UK, 1988)
£369 (UK, 1990) |
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| NAME |
AMIGA
600 |
| MANUFACTURER |
Commodore |
| TYPE |
Home
Computer |
| ORIGIN |
U.S.A. |
| YEAR |
1992 |
| KEYBOARD |
Full-stroke
keyboard, 78 key (no numeric keypad) |
| CPU |
Motorola
68000 |
| SPEED |
7.16
mHz |
| COPROCESSOR |
Agnes
(MMU), Daphne (video), Portia (Sound & I/O) |
| RAM |
1
MB, Expandable to 2MB Chip RAM
Maximum RAM expansion 6MB with PCMCIA |
| ROM |
512
KB (AmigaOS 2.x) |
| TEXT MODES |
60
x 32 / 80 x 32 |
| GRAPHIC MODES |
320
x 256 / 320 x 512 / 640 x 256 / 640 x 512 |
| COLORS |
32
(for 320 x X modes), 16 (for 640 x X modes) among 4096 + two
special modes EHB (64 colors) and HAM (4096 colors) |
| SOUND |
Four
channel stereo sound |
| SIZE / WEIGHT |
14''
deep x 9.5'' wide x 3'' high / 6 lbs |
| I/O PORTS |
Floppy
Disk (DB23), Mouse/Joystick/Lightpen (2 DB9), Serial (RS-232,
PC-compatible), Parallel (Centronics, PC-compatible), Video RGB
analogue (DB23 15 kHz), Colour Composite (RCA), RF Modulator
(RCA), PCMCIA Card Slot, Internal AT IDE connector |
| BUILT IN MEDIA |
one
3.5'' disk-drive, 880k |
| OS |
Amiga
DOS Release 2 + WorKBench 2.x |
| POWER SUPPLY |
External
PSU |
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| NAME |
AMIGA
1200 |
| MANUFACTURER |
Commodore |
| TYPE |
Home
Computer |
| ORIGIN |
U.S.A. |
| YEAR |
October 1992 |
| BUILT IN LANGUAGE |
None |
| KEYBOARD |
full-stroke
keyboard with 10 function keys and cursor keys and separate
numeric keypad, 96 keys |
| CPU |
Motorola
MC68EC020 |
| SPEED |
14,19
MHz in PAL version, 14,31MHz in NTSC |
| COPROCESSOR |
Alice
(AGA display controller), Lisa (AGA graphics coprocessor), Paula
(audio and I/O controller), Gayle (system address decoder and IDE
controller) |
| RAM |
2Mb
CHIP RAM + 8Mb Fast RAM max. (and more with an accelerator board
installed) |
| ROM |
512
Kb |
| TEXT MODES |
60
or 80 characters x 32 lines, emulated on graphic screens |
| GRAPHIC MODES |
from
320 x 200 pixels noninterlaced 50 Hz up to 1280 x 512 pixels
interlaced 50 Hz or, 640 x 480 pixels noninterlaced 60 Hz or, 640
x 400 pixels noninterlaced 70 Hz... |
| COLORS |
AA
Graphics System, colour palette: up to 16.8 million colours (24
Bit), 256 of them displayable simultaneously or up to 524288 in
HAM-8 mode |
| SOUND |
4-Channel
Stereo Sound standard, each 8 Bit PCM |
| SIZE / WEIGHT |
49
(W) x 25 (D) x 7 (H) cm / 3.1 Kg |
| I/O PORTS |
''Clock''
port, 150 pin local bus expansion, PCMCIA 2.0 expansion bus,
RS-232 serial port, Centronics parallel port, 2 mouse/joystick
ports, Colour composite video port, 15kHz colour RGB analogue
video port, 31KHz SVGA video output, 2 stereo audio output ports,
external floppy, internal AT IDE, internal floppy |
| BUILT IN MEDIA |
3.5-inch
double density disk drive (880 KB/1.76 MB formatted) or any IDE
hard disc drive (orginaly 40 MB, up to several GB) |
| OS |
AmigaOS
3.0, Kickstart 3.0 |
| POWER SUPPLY |
External
PSU, 110 volt/60Hz 23 watts (220-240V/50Hz for Europe) |
| PRICE |
£399
(UK, 1992)
£329 (UK, 1995) |
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