Amiga 500 Plus

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Amiga 500 Plus
Amiga 500 Plus (white background) .jpg
Manufacturer Commodore International
Type Home computers
publication 1991
End of production 1992
Factory price 1,100–1,200 DM
processor Motorola 68000 @ 7.15909 MHz ( NTSC )
7.09379 MHz ( PAL )
random access memory 1 MB (10 MB maximum)
graphic 640 × 256, 6-bit color depth ,
12-bit color palette
Sound 4 × 8-bit channels max. 28 kHz with 6-bit volume in stereo.
Disk 880 kB floppy disk drive
operating system AmigaOS v2.04
predecessor Amiga 500
successor Amiga 600

The Amiga 500 Plus was a newer version of the Amiga 500 home computer .

He is twice as much memory (1MB) and the newer Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) instead of the original chip set equipped (OCS), the first VGA - Monitors could drive. The Amiga 500 Plus was delivered with Kickstart Version 2.04 from the start . This operating system was a big step forward technically, but had the disadvantage that many previous programs no longer worked if or because they directly - disregarding the API - accessed kickstart routines whose structure had now changed. Games were particularly affected here. Hardware extensions that made it possible to switch between Kickstart 1.3 and 2.0 were therefore very soon on the market. The Amiga 500 Plus found a less successful continuation in the Amiga 600 .

Web links

Commons : Amiga 500  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Amiga 500. cbmmuseum
  2. Commodore Amiga 500. classiccomputer.de
  3. In Austria, the Amiga 500 according to the invoice of 24 June 1987 9491  ATS cost, representing approximately 1,350 German marks corresponded.