How much RAM did the Amiga 500 have?
The Amiga 500 used a special system for its RAM configuration. It had 512 KB of Chip RAM, which could be accessed by the sound and video custom chip, and FAST RAM, which could only be accessed only by the CPU. The Amiga 500 was followed by the Amiga 500+. It doubled the amount of the A500s Chip RAM to 1 MB. Amiga was lightyears ahead of IBM and Apple in many things. Especially in graphic quality. It was capable of displaying way more colors on screen than any other PC at its time. This made it ideal for both gaming and productivity.If you are in the market for a cute little box, to plug into your TV, to play some Amiga games, the A500 Mini is a great little product, however doing so has made me think most of all about why the Amiga was such an evolutionary dead end, in terms of games and tech in general. In its day, it was a wonderful machine.In later years, the Amiga started losing market share to IBM PC compatibles and the fourth generation of video game consoles, eventually leading to Commodore’s bankruptcy in 1994 and the end of Amiga.
What are the capabilities of Amiga 500?
The Amiga 500 boasted a 16/32-bit 68000 CPU at 7MHz, 512KB RAM (expandable up to 9MB using the expansion slot below the trapdoor), high resolution graphics and stereo sound. Before Amiga 500 was shipped, Commodore suggested that the list price of the Amiga 500 was US$595. At delivery in October 1987, Commodore announced that the Amiga 500 would carry a US$699/£499 list price.The accessories for Commodore Amiga 500 computer consist of a printer, a transformer, a video adapter, three game controllers, six manuals and forty seven 5 1/4 inch disks.
Why did the Amiga fail?
His conclusion is that what really killed the Amiga was that the CPU price reductions which defined the x86 world at that time never came to 68k or PowerPC lines, and that along with the architecture zealotry of the fan base meant that there would never be the much-longed-for revival. Yes, it still works on crusty old hardware like an A500 with a 68000 — but it shines on more modern setups using Arm accelerators like PiStorm. Meanwhile, AmigaOS 4. X continues on its PowerPC tangent, which isn’t so much a successor as a different beast entirely.