Amiga A570
The Amiga A570 is a hardware extension that was brought onto the market by Commodore in 1990 . It is a CD-ROM drive for the Amiga 500 .
general description
The A570 is connected to the expansion port on the side of the home computer and has its own power supply unit . It only switches on when the computer has started up and takes full control of the system. Finally, a bootable medium such as B. a floppy disk or CD searched.
The memory of the drive can be increased by two megabytes by means of a special extension .
Since the expansion port is not carried out on the A570, it is not possible to connect other expansions such as an A590 hard drive to the computer at the same time as an A570.
Technical specifications
- Speed: single speed in two modes (153 kB / s or 171 kB / s)
- Loading mechanism: CD caddy
- Drive mechanism: Matsushita (Panasonic) or Mitsumi
- Access time : 0.5 s
- CD format: Audio CD , CD + G , ISO 9660 CD-ROM with Rockridge extensions , CD- MIDI
- Connections: 4 × cinch sockets (two each for audio input and audio output), two expansion slots
- 1 × LED to indicate drive access
- Dimensions (W × H × D) in cm : 7.6 × 21.6 × 34.6
Furthermore, the device is fully compatible with CDTV . During operation, however, there should be numerous problems with other hardware expansions.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mingos Commodorepage - Commodore A570. In: mingos-commodorepage.com. Retrieved March 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Mingos Commodorepage - Commodore A590. In: mingos-commodorepage.com. Retrieved March 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Commodore A570 - Amiga Hardware Database. In: amiga.resource.cx. Retrieved March 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Kuphaldt, Thorsten: CCOM - Amiga A570. In: cbmmuseum.kuto.de. Retrieved March 21, 2016 .
