Well, this is the thing, isn't it. The A500+ and A600 are both superior to the plain old A500, but at the time they were just too little, too late. Nowadays, I'd take either in preference to the plain A500.
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Well, this is the thing, isn't it. The A500+ and A600 are both superior to the plain old A500, but at the time they were just too little, too late. Nowadays, I'd take either in preference to the plain A500.
Indeed as would I
for the record never had iether machine back when, did have ks2 for my 500
but then saved up for the A1200
for the record never had iether machine back when, did have ks2 for my 500
but then saved up for the A1200
smilertoo
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The a500+ was a fine computer.
I'm having trouble choosing between hating on A500+ or A600, but I think I'll go with A600 since atleast the A500+ has numeric keypad. I recently went and bought an A500+ for €10 since it came with TAC2, automatic joy/mouse-switcher, ~100 disks, PSU, a few original games and some other nicnacs. The motherboard had (as expected) recieved a rather extensive battery bukkake so I pinched whatever IC's I could salvage from it along with the connectors and threw the board in the bin.
In my world they were almost there with the A1000 and perfected it with the A500.
In my world they were almost there with the A1000 and perfected it with the A500.
Bastich
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I originally had an A500 1.2 after upgrading from a c64 / zx48. Floppy disks where like so high tech then
I never did like the look of the A600 as it was way to late in the day and looked cheep
The A500+ was also a bit of a turkey but at least these days (not then) it can be upgraded with ide and ram while still marinating that proper retro teen age look and feel
Of all of them thou in my opinion the CD32 was the worst as it really was to late and got totally trashed by the original Playstation.
I can still remember the day when I was playing super Cars 2 and my mate brought round an ugly grey box which proceeded to play Wipeout :wooha:
I did continue developing stuff on my trusty A4000 up until 2000 even when working for PC games companies (remember Elite?).
With the advent of 3d hardware, Windows 95 and DirectX/OGL the end had been reached :-(
I never did like the look of the A600 as it was way to late in the day and looked cheep
The A500+ was also a bit of a turkey but at least these days (not then) it can be upgraded with ide and ram while still marinating that proper retro teen age look and feel
Of all of them thou in my opinion the CD32 was the worst as it really was to late and got totally trashed by the original Playstation.
I can still remember the day when I was playing super Cars 2 and my mate brought round an ugly grey box which proceeded to play Wipeout :wooha:
I did continue developing stuff on my trusty A4000 up until 2000 even when working for PC games companies (remember Elite?).
With the advent of 3d hardware, Windows 95 and DirectX/OGL the end had been reached :-(
The A500+ was also a bit of a turkey but at least these days (not then) it can be upgraded with ide and ram while still marinating that proper retro teen age look and feel
I'd rather stick an A1200 motherboard inside an A500 case then tbh.
A600 is at the top, for the moment.
What I really hate about the A600 is that most chips were solderd directly on the motherboard instead of sockets.
That is also a miss on the A4000D boards and A1200.
What I really hate about the A600 is that most chips were solderd directly on the motherboard instead of sockets.
That is also a miss on the A4000D boards and A1200.
In my opinion the worst amiga ist the A500+.
That thing is bad marketing personified in technology. there is absolutely nothing worth in that machine. its a basic a500 with ecs. nothing new and better and that all 4 years after the first a500 came out. that machine is not only pointless they also didnt update the look of the machine.
The A600 is one of my most favourite amigas beacuse of its size and variety of interfaces. you can install a harddisk, network card, ram expansion and almost all the things that are possible with an A1200.
the next machine after the a500+ is the CD32 system.
but as someone said before, i am talking about the least favorite. i would want to own and work and upgrade all of them if i had the money and time just for the fun of it.
That thing is bad marketing personified in technology. there is absolutely nothing worth in that machine. its a basic a500 with ecs. nothing new and better and that all 4 years after the first a500 came out. that machine is not only pointless they also didnt update the look of the machine.
The A600 is one of my most favourite amigas beacuse of its size and variety of interfaces. you can install a harddisk, network card, ram expansion and almost all the things that are possible with an A1200.
the next machine after the a500+ is the CD32 system.
but as someone said before, i am talking about the least favorite. i would want to own and work and upgrade all of them if i had the money and time just for the fun of it.
Well the A1000 is not the best either.
Softkickstart, expansions are pretty rare and hard to get, no harddrive standard and also not easy to add.
A4000T is still the best, that's why it also has 0 votes.
Softkickstart, expansions are pretty rare and hard to get, no harddrive standard and also not easy to add.
A4000T is still the best, that's why it also has 0 votes.
Must be honest, I'm not loving the A1200 very much either come to think of it. I mean, it's nice and all that, but it's not soulmate nice if you know what I mean. Even the crustiest of the crusty A500's shimmer with love. I should probably check in to the kookoo house for saying some shit like that but it's how I feel when I look at one. 
About the A1000, wasn't it a pain booting the kickstart from disk all the time?
About the A1000, wasn't it a pain booting the kickstart from disk all the time?
I agree completely with you, the 500 was beautiful and powerful in its day - but slow and expensive by the end of it..
The kickstart disk is only used once at cold boot and the then pop workbench in. The beauty was - if something didn't like kickstart 1.3 then boot with 1.1 or 1.2 ..
Although In truth im unaware of anything that found 1.3 too advanced lol
The kickstart disk is only used once at cold boot and the then pop workbench in. The beauty was - if something didn't like kickstart 1.3 then boot with 1.1 or 1.2 ..
Although In truth im unaware of anything that found 1.3 too advanced lol
maybe its time to cast my vote :dry:
Hmm, maybe I should take a closer look at it. Might get me one some day. It is (along with the A3000) one of the top lookers after all. It's not like I'm not using disks anyway, I shuffle 'em like crazy.
:help:
I don't know, the CD32 is way cooler than the CDTV on a usefulness scale. IMO
