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2018-12-16T22:41:47Z

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Neozeed: /* Amiga 1500 */

2013-03-13T04:44:38Z

‎Amiga 1500

Neozeed: /* Amiga 600 */

2013-03-13T04:36:34Z

‎Amiga 600

Tor: Fixed some typos, possessive "its", use of RAM vs. ram etc. Minor stuff.

2013-02-25T09:56:15Z

Fixed some typos, possessive "its", use of RAM vs. ram etc. Minor stuff.

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Neozeed: /* Amiga 3000UX */

2013-01-14T11:39:26Z

‎Amiga 3000UX

Neozeed: /* Zorro II */

2013-01-03T10:56:50Z

‎Zorro II

Neozeed: /* ECS */

2013-01-03T10:55:52Z

‎ECS

Neozeed: /* OCS */

2012-08-16T16:16:34Z

‎OCS

Neozeed: /* Amiga 3000UX */

2009-09-29T23:15:17Z

‎Amiga 3000UX

Neozeed: /* Amiga 600 */

2009-09-23T16:58:41Z

‎Amiga 600

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	The most popular emulator for the Commodore Amiga is [[UAE]].		The most popular emulator for the Commodore Amiga is [[UAE]].

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 === Amiga 1500 ===
 [[Image:Amiga 1500.jpg|150px|right|thumb|An Amiga 1500]]
-This Amiga was a desktop model that did NOT include any ISA slots preventing the bridgeboard upgrade.  Otherwise it's identical in specs to the Amiga 2000.
+This Amiga was a desktop model that was pretty much an Amiga 2000 with dual floppy drives.  The motherboard was identical to the Amiga 2000.  The 1500 did cost less, and was possibly released to try to block an upgrade product from using the moniker [http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=6 A1500].
-I think this model was primary sold in Europe as a 'budget' 2000 (hence the removal of the ISA slots).
+I think this model was primary sold in the UK as a 'budget' 2000.
 I'm really not that sure about this model's popularity.

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 === Amiga 600 ===
 [[Image:Amiga 600.jpg|150px|right|thumb|An Amiga 600]]
-This should have been a low cost version of the 500, with the updated ECS chipset, however it wound up costing more then the Amiga 500.  This was to replace the 500, at the time of the 1200's release.  One of the big differences in the Amiga 600 was the move to all surface mount chips that would increase the reliability of the boards.  However this also meant it was extremely difficult to repair the boards as none of the chips were socketed.  The Amiga 600 also included a PCMCIA slot, and an IDE controller.  However the software to boot from the IDE interface was NOT included in the default ROMS that shipped with the Amiga 600.
+This should have been a low cost version of the 500, with the updated ECS chipset, however it wound up costing more than the Amiga 500.  The Amiga 600 replaced the 500, at the time of the 1200's release.  One of the big differences in the Amiga 600/1200 was the move to all surface mount chips that would increase the reliability of the boards.  However this also meant it was extremely difficult to repair the boards as none of the chips were socketed.  The Amiga 600 also included a PCMCIA slot, and an IDE controller.  However the software to boot from the IDE interface was NOT included in the default ROMS that shipped with the Amiga 600 (37.299).  The Amiga 600 HD variant included a 2.5 inch 40Mb IDE disk, and shipped with the firmware version 37.300 .  A later firmware chip was made available, 37.350 which had support for hard disks up to 4GB.
 Another major dissapointment was that the Amiga 600 had the same basic specifications as the Amiga 500.  Releasing a machine with a 7Mhz 68000 around 1992 seemed crazy as Apple had moved on to Quadras and even the PC market was in the double digit MHz CPUs.

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 === Amiga 3000UX ===
 [[Image:Amiga 3000UX.jpg|150px|right|thumb|An Amiga 3000UX]]
-The 3000UX was an Amiga 3000 that included a SCSI tape drive, and came with Commodore's SYSVr4 port.  This model could have saved the company as SUN wanted to rebrand the machine, and make MILLIONS with it.  Naturally Commodore declined such a deal.  It is worth noting that Commodore UNIX could run on any other Amiga 3000, and there are some 'hacks' to copy the tape image onto a second hard disk, and allow install without requiring the tape, or the tape drive.
+The 3000UX was an Amiga 3000 that included a SCSI tape drive, and came with Commodore's SYSVr4 port,[[AMIX]].  This model could have saved the company as SUN wanted to rebrand the machine, and make MILLIONS with it.  Naturally Commodore declined such a deal.  It is worth noting that Commodore UNIX could run on any other Amiga 3000, and there are some 'hacks' to copy the tape image onto a second hard disk, and allow install without requiring the tape, or the tape drive.
 === Amiga 3000T ===

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 This was the slot type of the [[Amiga 1000]].
 === Zorro II ===
-These slots were found in the [[Amiga 1500]],[[Amiga 2000]] and [[Amiga 2500]].  I think these were 16bit.. I don't recall.  I do know that they featured 'autoconfigure' so that each board would configure it's own IO, DMA & IRQ assignments into the BUS, and could provide an AmigaDOS driver in ROM to drive each peripherial.
+These slots were found in the [[Amiga 1500]],[[Amiga 2000]] and [[Amiga 2500]].  I am pretty sure these were 16bit, as the 68000 had an external 16bit data bus, and a 24bit address bus...  I do know that they featured 'autoconfigure' so that each board would configure it's own IO, DMA & IRQ assignments into the BUS, and could provide an AmigaDOS driver in ROM to drive each peripherial.
 === Zorro III ===

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	=== ECS ===		=== ECS ===
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		+	The ECS, or Enhanced Chip Set, included support for up to 2MB of Chip memory, and additional video modes.
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	=== AGA ===		=== AGA ===

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 === OCS ===
 === ECS ===
 === AGA ===

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	=== Amiga 3000UX ===		=== Amiga 3000UX ===
		+	[[Image:Amiga 3000UX.jpg\|150px\|right\|thumb\|An Amiga 3000UX]]
	The 3000UX was an Amiga 3000 that included a SCSI tape drive, and came with Commodore's SYSVr4 port. This model could have saved the company as SUN wanted to rebrand the machine, and make MILLIONS with it. Naturally Commodore declined such a deal. It is worth noting that Commodore UNIX could run on any other Amiga 3000, and there are some 'hacks' to copy the tape image onto a second hard disk, and allow install without requiring the tape, or the tape drive.		The 3000UX was an Amiga 3000 that included a SCSI tape drive, and came with Commodore's SYSVr4 port. This model could have saved the company as SUN wanted to rebrand the machine, and make MILLIONS with it. Naturally Commodore declined such a deal. It is worth noting that Commodore UNIX could run on any other Amiga 3000, and there are some 'hacks' to copy the tape image onto a second hard disk, and allow install without requiring the tape, or the tape drive.