Is the Amiga 500 the same as the Commodore 1000?

It contains the same Motorola 68000 as the Amiga 1000, as well as the same graphics and sound coprocessors, but is in a smaller case similar to that of the Commodore 128 , Commodore announced the Amiga 500 at the January 1987 winter Consumer Electronics Show – at the same time as the high-end Amiga 2000.

Are there any games that don’t work on the Amiga 500?

Due to the new Kickstart, quite a few popular games (such as Treasure Island Dizzy, SWIV, and Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge) failed to work on the Amiga 500+, and some people took them back to dealers demanding an original Kickstart 1.3 Amiga 500.

When did the Amiga 500 come out in the Netherlands?

In the Netherlands it was available from April 1987 for a list price of 1499 HFL (US$730 in 1987).

What kind of ports does the Amiga 500 have?

There are two DE9M Atari joystick ports for joysticks or mice, stereo audio ( RCA connectors 1 V p-p ). There is a floppy drive port for daisy-chaining up to three extra floppy disk drives via an DB23F connector. The then-standard RS-232 serial port (DB25M) and Centronics parallel port (DB25F) are also included. The power supply is ( +5V, +/-12V ).

How many games are there for the Amiga 500?

There are 2508 known programs for the Amiga 500, divided as follows: Click on the title for more information about that thing. Alternatively, list the games for a different machine . If you are looking for books, expansions or just a more visual representation of this data, you can generate a “wall” to your exact requirements.

What’s the sampling frequency on the Amiga 500?

With DMA disabled it’s possible to output with a sampling frequency up to 56 kHz. There’s a common trick to output sound with 14-bit precision that can be combined to output 14-bit 56 kHz sound.