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IIRC the Amiga 500 was much preferred to the 1000 because the 1000 cost a lot more to upgrade to 1M? of memory which many games required. I had both, but bought

IIRC the Amiga 500 was much preferred to the 1000 because the 1000 cost a lot more to upgrade to 1M? of memory which many games required. I had both, but bought an Amiga 1000 first not knowing this issue. Good days. Back then, it was just us nerds.

rodgerd 9y ago
The A1000 shipped with 256 K of RAM. The A500 shipped with 512. Other than that, the A1000 was a nicer form factor, but a substantially larger price for much the same computing ability.
puzzle 9y ago
The 500 and 1000 had the same external expansion port, but it was on opposite sides of the machine, so some devices might look funny when installed. The A500 had also a trapdoor port under the keyboard to double the 512KB of RAM that was on the motherboard already. The A1000 had a clumsy daughterboard you'd have to install inside the case to double the onboard 256KB. Its Agnus controller also had a different packaging from the one on the A500, so it couldn't accomodate the newer Fat Agnus and Super Agnus (1MB or 2MB of audio/video RAM). Without expensive hacks, that is. The A1000 cost more to upgrade because the daughterboards had lower volume than on the A500. The external expansions cost more, for both computers, because they need a case, plus might need more logic. If 1MB was your target (and not just doubling what came with the machine), then on the A1000 the external port was the easiest. That, surprisingly enough, was also the solution with faster memory speeds. A silver lining. :-)
lomnakkus 9y ago
My first self-owned computer was an Amiga 500[0], and I played this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw (To be fair, I played Commando on the C64 before, but, goddamn, Another World[1] showed me what was possible.) [0] I'd played with an Amstrad "Something", playing with mates who had a Vic20, and a C64. [1] ... and Shadow of The Beast. Awful game, but what amazing sound and graphics! EDIT: Oh, crap, didn't mention: I, along with a friend, programmed that Amstrad to play a basic Roulette game in some sort of BASIC variant -- Trust me, the ASCII graphics were amazing! On the Amiga, I started with a little draw-a-chart-type-thing based on reprogramming the on-screen characters (or was that actually the C64? Hard to remember at this point). Maybe I'm an absolute liar and I actually started out with a C64? I definitely remember programming my first ray-tracer in Turbo Pascal on a xNNN (N=digit) PC with a VGA card + grey-scale monitor. Memories are hard in both senses of the word :(.
- Boothroid 9y ago
  Ah, those rotoscoped vector graphics were fantastic! Flashback was great as well.
- EamonnMR 9y ago
  You may enjoy this Re: another world: http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/ http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/
- richardw 9y ago
  I had an Amstrad CPC-464 and then an Amiga 500. So many youthful memories! Still have the 500 but haven't fired it up forever. Then yup Turbo Pascal at school.
- lathiat 9y ago
  My favourite Amiga game was Gods followed by Flashback
  - ekianjo 9y ago
    Gods was awesome but Speedball 2 from the same devs was a brutally fun game especially with 2 players.

rodgerd 9y ago

The A1000 shipped with 256 K of RAM. The A500 shipped with 512. Other than that, the A1000 was a nicer form factor, but a substantially larger price for much the same computing ability.

puzzle 9y ago

The 500 and 1000 had the same external expansion port, but it was on opposite sides of the machine, so some devices might look funny when installed. The A500 had also a trapdoor port under the keyboard to double the 512KB of RAM that was on the motherboard already. The A1000 had a clumsy daughterboard you'd have to install inside the case to double the onboard 256KB. Its Agnus controller also had a different packaging from the one on the A500, so it couldn't accomodate the newer Fat Agnus and Super Agnus (1MB or 2MB of audio/video RAM). Without expensive hacks, that is. The A1000 cost more to upgrade because the daughterboards had lower volume than on the A500. The external expansions cost more, for both computers, because they need a case, plus might need more logic. If 1MB was your target (and not just doubling what came with the machine), then on the A1000 the external port was the easiest. That, surprisingly enough, was also the solution with faster memory speeds. A silver lining. :-)

lomnakkus 9y ago

My first self-owned computer was an Amiga 500[0], and I played this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw (To be fair, I played Commando on the C64 before, but, goddamn, Another World[1] showed me what was possible.) [0] I'd played with an Amstrad "Something", playing with mates who had a Vic20, and a C64. [1] ... and Shadow of The Beast. Awful game, but what amazing sound and graphics! EDIT: Oh, crap, didn't mention: I, along with a friend, programmed that Amstrad to play a basic Roulette game in some sort of BASIC variant -- Trust me, the ASCII graphics were amazing! On the Amiga, I started with a little draw-a-chart-type-thing based on reprogramming the on-screen characters (or was that actually the C64? Hard to remember at this point). Maybe I'm an absolute liar and I actually started out with a C64? I definitely remember programming my first ray-tracer in Turbo Pascal on a xNNN (N=digit) PC with a VGA card + grey-scale monitor. Memories are hard in both senses of the word :(.

Boothroid 9y ago
Ah, those rotoscoped vector graphics were fantastic! Flashback was great as well.
EamonnMR 9y ago
You may enjoy this Re: another world: http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/ http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/
richardw 9y ago
I had an Amstrad CPC-464 and then an Amiga 500. So many youthful memories! Still have the 500 but haven't fired it up forever. Then yup Turbo Pascal at school.
lathiat 9y ago
My favourite Amiga game was Gods followed by Flashback
- ekianjo 9y ago
  Gods was awesome but Speedball 2 from the same devs was a brutally fun game especially with 2 players.