Weird Amiga 500??

Hi all

I was wondering if any of you have anymore information about the Amiga 500 I picked up today. It looks like an A500+ with the blank key on the keyboard and the wide A500+ like badge. I have heard about these before and was under the impression that it should have a revision 8 motherboard which for all intents and purposes is an A500+ motherboard without the battery on-board (Ive been told anyway).

Anyway, upon opening mine up it is just a bog standard rev6 A500 board, the machine had not been opened before from what I can make out as the sticker was pushed in slightly but not far enough to unscrew the machine, so I dont think anyone has swapped it. How come mine has a rev 6 board, Ive always thought these should have rev 8 boards?

Pics are attached to show which A500 I mean :)

Taj

PS, The cat thought he would have a look at it but he drew a blank so went back to his normal state (sleeping!)

I have an amiga 500 exactly the same. Badge the same like a plus model and a revision 6 board. I really like this amiga because rev 6 for me it's the best and most compatible board and the logo is the modern one.
Later cases like this had a rev 8 board with 0.5 MB chip memory(hybrid boards), with a "500+" writing but it was from the transition period of commodore moving to 500+ boards.

I have one of these also, but I don't have the blank key. (are u sure someone hasn't replaced it at some point? ;))

What kickstart?
A rev8 should have 2.04 right? (unless it's been replaced ofcourse)

masheen

This must have a 1.3 kickstart.

I am thinking C= did stuff like this to clear out old stock of parts, mix and matching to move units. They must of ran out of old 500 cases and started using the new batch of A500+ cases. Pretty cool.

I remember back when the A2000 first came out, I saw some that had butchered mouse cables--they cut off the A1000 plugs and installed the regular DB9 plugs on them! It looked like crap and unprofessional but that's commodore...

I also have one of this A500 badged like the A500+, inside is a rev 8A board with 512kb ram and A500+ writhen on it. :) Still needs cleaning througt :dry:

Thanks for the replies guys :thumbsup:

It has a 1.3 ROM and Im almost certain it hasnt been opened before, the warranty sticker was only slighty pushed in and came apart very easily when I went to open it :)

So it appears that some have the rev 8 board some dont, probably down to Commodore being cheapskates! LOL :D

That should have been rev 8 board with 2.04, this can be upgraded to a plus version, so becoming an 8A.
But the upgrade work is quite much and since it's value of the plus is only a tad more, it's better to pick one up.

Upgrade is pretty easy. Clock IC and some caps and resistors, one TTL and four memory IC's, rom change, jumpers change and you have A500+ without any damage, I did one like this for myself - twice :) .

hi everyone!
this is what i believe;
this was the leftover and new parts A500 that was produced before and a little into life of A500Plus

the first Amiga500 had the small square C= logo on the upper right corner of the case
then once the design of the A500Plus was completed and manufacturing was about to be started Commodore realised they were still sitting on many spare parts from the A500 and most likely since the old cases were no longer pressed Commodore ordered new badges in the style of A500Plus and quickly made these type of A500's
from what i know (my observations) these "hybrid" A500's were mainly sold in central and eastern Europe (i could be wrong) because i have been living in Australia for over 15 years now and all i see are the old small square C= A500's
visiting Poland every 2 years i always search through flea markets and internet and i see alot of the "hybrid" A500's but with the old A500's boxes (old case A500 picture featuring on the box)

im sure our friends from western EU and the USA might have other information regarding this type of Amiga500 and i could be totally wrong ;)