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title: Commodore AMIGA 2000
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- U.S.A.
years:
- '1987'
cpus:
- Motorola MC 68000
params:
name: AMIGA 2000
company: /companies/commodore
company_name: Commodore
specs:
- label: NAME
value: AMIGA 2000
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Commodore
- label: TYPE
value: Home Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: U.S.A.
- label: YEAR
value: March 1987
- label: END OF PRODUCTION
value: '1990'
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Full-stroke keyboard with seperated numeric keypad and arrow keys
- label: CPU
value: Motorola MC 68000
- label: SPEED
value: 7.14 mHz
- label: CO-PROCESSOR
value: Fat Agnus (MMU), Paula (Sound & IO), Denise (video), Gary, OCS/ECS chipset
- label: RAM
value: |-
512k or 1Mb (512K CHIP, 512K FAST on board), depending on models\
up to 9Mb : 1Mb Chip RAM + 8Mb FAST RAM
- label: ROM
value: 256 KB (DOS 1.2)
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 60 x 32 / 80 x 32
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: 320 x 256 / 320 x 512 / 640 x 256 / 640 x 512
- label: COLORS
value: 32 (for 320 x X modes), 16 (for 640 x X modes) among 4096 + 2 special modes EHB (64 colors) + HAM (4096 colors)
- label: SOUND
value: 4 voice 8 bit PCM
- label: I/O PORTS
value: 4 PC ISA slots (2 AT & 2 XT), Processor card slot, 5 x Zorro II slots, Video slot, Serial/RS232, Parallel/Centronics, RGB & composite video outputs, Mouse, 2 x Stereo audio, Keyboard, External floppy
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: |-
one 3.5'' disk-drive (880k)\
SCSI HD in 2000HD models
- label: OS
value: AMIGA WorKBench 1.3, Kickstart 1.2, 1.3 then 2.04
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: Built-in PSU
- label: PRICE
value: £2000 (UK, 1986)
tabs:
- photos
- hardware
- emulators
- links
- videos
photos:
- title: ANOTHER CONFIGURATION
subtitle: ''
text: Here, there are one 3''1/2 disk-drive and one 5''1/4 disk-drive.
image: null
- title: AMIGA 2000-HD
subtitle: ''
text: This is an Amiga 2000-HD computer with a 44Mb Syquest drive and 2 floppy drives.
image: null
- title: DIAGRAM
subtitle: ''
text: Block diagram of the Amiga 2000 architecture
image: null
- title: VIDEO TOASTER
subtitle: ''
text: Born from several high tech brains at Newtek Incorporated in Topeka Kansas in 1991, the Amiga Video Toaster launched an entire industry with its power to the people price and feature set. Replacing $250,000 of broadcast quality television studio equipment the Amiga Video Toaster allowed anyone that could afford to buy a car get into video production.
image: null
hardware:
- title: MIDI GOLD 500
subtitle: by Golden Hawk Technology
text: |-
This is a MIDI interface for the Amiga 500, 2000, or 3000...
It features :\
\- one MIDI In\
\- two MIDI Out\
\- one switchable Out/Thru\
\- one MIDI/Serial Switch\
\- one Out/Thru Switch
image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga_golden-hawk-midi-interface.jpg
- title: A2088
subtitle: PC Emulator board
text: |-
This board contains all the necessary hardware to run all of the PC software and use any PC cards connected in the PC slots.
**(1)** Dual port 128 KB RAM\
**(2)** Amiga bus connector\
**(3)** Dual port RAM control and interface\
**(4)** 512 KB PC-RAM\
**(5)** PC BIOS ROM\
**(6)** PC floppy disc controller\
**(7)** 8088 processor and socket for a 8087 math coprocessor\
**(8)** PC bus connector\
**(9)** PC multi-function custom chip\
**(10)** PC drive connector
image: null
- title: A2091
subtitle: SCSI controller
text: ''
image: null
- title: AMIGA 1300
subtitle: Genlock
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1000_1300-genlock.jpg
- title: MEMORY EXPANSION BOARD
subtitle: ''
text: 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 MB expansion card here fitted with 2 MB.
image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1500_memboard_1.jpg
- title: VIDEO BOARD
subtitle: ''
text: This board featured 2 MB of RAM and allowed the Amiga to be connected to a standard VGA monitor. All the video modes could be displayed, including the interlace one.
image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1500_videoboard_1.jpg
- title: A570 CD-ROM
subtitle: ''
text: Thanks to David Griffith for this picture
image: /media/museum/hardware/amiga_cdrom_a570_1.jpg
- title: HARD DISK CARD
subtitle: ''
text: |-
40 MB SCSI card from SUPRA CORP.
Additional SCSI devices could be connected in chain trough the back connector
image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1500_hdboard_1.jpg
emulators:
- title: Amiga Forever
url: http://www.amigaforever.com/
platform: Windows
text: Complete but commercial Amiga emulator
- title: AMIthlon & AmigaXL
url: http://amigaosxl.haage-partner.de/index-e.html
platform: Windows
text: Powerful commercial emulators
- title: WinFellow
url: HTTP://FELLOW.SOURCEFORGE.NET
platform: Windows
text: Probably better at some games than UAE, but not as versatile.
- title: WinUAE
url: http://www.winuae.net/
platform: Windows
text: The best Amiga emulator ? :-)
- title: Max UAE
url: http://maxuae.de/
platform: Apple
text: UAE for Mac OS X
- title: AmigaSYS
url: http://amigasys.fw.hu/
platform: Unix / Linux
text: AmigaSYS is a pre-installed full Amiga OS for WinUAE
- title: Pocket UAE
url: http://pocketinsanity.sourceforge.net/
platform: Other platform
text: Amiga Emulator for Pocket PC
- title: Experimental UAE
url: http://www.rcdrummond.net/uae/
platform: Multiplatform
text: Standard UAE enhanced with features from WinUAE.
- title: MESS
url: http://www.mess.org
platform: Multiplatform
text: MESS now emulates the Commodore Amiga
- title: UAE
url: http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/
platform: Multiplatform
text: '(Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator) for BeOS, Mac OS, Linux, NextStep, MSDOS, OS/2 and Win95/NT : Homepage.'
links:
- title: Amiga animations
url: http://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/
text: A collection of Amiga Animations. This is the only site where you can see them online!
- title: Amiga Interactive Guide
url: http://amiga.emugaming.com/
text: Excellent site ! A lot of very interesting infos there.
- title: Amiga Island
url: http://www.virtualpast.de/
text: Excellent site with ROMs to download!
- title: Amiga Web Directory
url: http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html
text: ''
- title: AMIGART.COM
url: http://www.amigart.com
text: Nice site with Amiga news
- title: Back to the Roots
url: HTTP://WWW.BACK2ROOTS.ORG/
text: Amiga culture, guides, huge collection of legally downloadable software, and much more.
- title: Lex Site - Amiga Hardware Database
url: http://amiga.multigraph.com/
text: The website title says it all!
- title: NetBSD-Amiga
url: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/amiga/index.html
text: ''
- title: Old Computer Mags
url: http://www.old-computer-mags.com/
text: Scans of old computer and videogames magazine
- title: Recorded Amiga Games
url: http://www.recordedamigagames.org
text: Speedrun, longplay and misc videos of Amiga games and more.
- title: RetroPack
url: http://www.retropack.co.uk/
text: Website dedicated to selling original Amigas, CD32s and Amiga/CD32 Games.
- title: The Amiga Monitor
url: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MikeWebb/amhome.html
text: ''
- title: The Big Book of Amiga Hardware
url: http://www.amiga-hardware.com/
text: Pics & info (pinouts, jumpers etc.) for just about every piece of Amiga related hardware there is
- title: The English Amiga Board
url: http://eab.abime.net/
text: Community site for Amiga fans
- title: World-Wide Amiga - Online!!
url: http://www.amiga.org/
text: ''
- title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
text: Reviews of Amiga software, hardware
videos:
- title: Commodore Amiga commercial - EXIT
url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8721405286052618769&hl=fr
text: 'Length: 41 s'
- title: Commodore Amiga 500 commercial
url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5737538578208665725&hl=fr
text: 'Length: 29 s'
- title: Commodore Amiga 1000 commercial
url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5356507595228759374&hl=fr
text: 'Length: 32 s'
- title: Commodore Amiga 600 italian commercial
url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-768109352967297990&hl=fr
text: 'Length: 19 s'
- title: Commodore Amiga packs commercial
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdaMq8JLyHA
text: 'Length: 21 s'
- title: Commodore Amiga TV Ad - Celebrities
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEFoj6sbDjU
text: 'Length: 29 s'
- title: Commodore Amiga 500 promotional video
url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=9038863557655975739&hl=fr
text: 'Length: 15 min 06 s'
- title: 'Computer Chronicles: Amiga & Atari (1985)'
url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8978343825632445107&hl=fr
text: 'Length: 29 min 18 s'
comments:
- author: knut A (Norway)
date: Saturday 14th May 2011
text: 'You can buy almost everything you need for amiga systems in this shop: www.amigakit.com. It´s a uk based stor that ships almost anywhere. Hops this helps somone.'
- author: tom2215 (United Kingdom)
date: Sunday 25th March 2007
text: If you are in the U.K, you can try www.amigadeals.co.uk, but anywhere else, probably ebay or another shopping site. Do some searching and even look up a old pc hardware shop near where you live, some friends may have parts as well.
- author: Pest1lence (Canada)
date: Friday 14th November 2003
text: I recently recieved a 2000, and I'm wondering if anyone has the manuals for on that I could maybe get a copy of, thanks.
- author: lazos (greece)
date: Monday 28th July 2003
text: |-
I have an old Amiga 2000 and I need to upgrade it.\
Where can I find information about harware and software compatible with this model?
- author: rebecca (canada)
date: Monday 22nd April 2002
text: i love these comps. i totally grew up on these. i remember when i was really small like 3 on the amiga 500 and my dad not leting me on the amiga 2000 cause that was his computer and the 500 was mine. but i have the amiga 2000 now as mine in my rooma dn i wouldn't trade it for my life i love that computer.
related:
- /museum/commodore-amiga-1000
- /museum/commodore-amiga-1200
- /museum/commodore-amiga-1500
- /museum/commodore-amiga-2500
- /museum/commodore-amiga-3000
- /museum/commodore-amiga-4000
- /museum/commodore-amiga-500
- /museum/commodore-amiga-500-plus
- /museum/commodore-amiga-600
- /museum/commodore-amiga-600hd
- /museum/commodore-cdtv
oc_id: 63
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230607215919/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=63
date: '2023-06-07'
---
The Commodore Amiga 2000 is the successor of the [Amiga 1000](/museum/commodore-amiga-1000/). As the [Amiga 500](/museum/commodore-amiga-500/) was the "low-end" model of the new products, the 2000 was considered the "high-end" model in 1985.
Like the original Amiga, it uses the same memory configuration with chip RAM (512 KB which can be accessed by the custom chips) and fast RAM (the rest of memory which can be accessed only by the CPU).
There are three drive bays : two 3.5" front bays and one 5.25" front bay. A 5.25" floppy drive or a half-height hard drive could be mounted into this last bay.
A Commodore 8088-CPU bridgeboard (a PC-on-a-card) was available. When operating, 128k RAM is used as a "bridge" between the PC bus and the Amiga Bus. Two programs (called ARead and AWrite) make the data exchange between PC and Amiga possible. The ISA slots can be used only with the "bridge" card and are unused in "Amiga mode".
There are in fact 3 models and many variations of the A2000 :
The **Amiga 2000A**, the "original A2000" was designed in Germany and was based on a German Amiga 1000 motherboard. The system was based upon an interesting design but was restricted in many ways (the thin Agnus could only use 512 Kb RAM). The machine had a number of reliability problems representing a refinement of 1985 technology rather than an step forward.
The **Amiga 2000B** is a kind of mix between the redesigned German 2000A and a cost-reduced version of the A500. It is generally referred in the UK as the B2000.
The **Amiga 2000C** is the final version of the A2000. It is based upon the improved ECS Chipset, but otherwise it is identical to the 2000B. It is known as the Amiga 2000+ in the US and was shipped with the new improved Kickstart 2.04.
The model with a built-in disk controller and a hard disk was called the **Amiga 2000HD**, it was shipped with an A209x SCSI controller and a SCSI hard disk drive installed.
The [A2500](/museum/commodore-amiga-2500/) systems were based upon the final revisions of the A2000-B motherboard design before the A3000 was released.
The [A1500](/museum/commodore-amiga-1500/) was a UK-specific machine derived from the A2000, retailing at £999 (UKP) during 1990. Apart from shipping with two floppy drives, 1Mb memory and a new nameplate there is hardly any difference between the A1500 and the A2000.
*Source : [Amiga Interactive Guide](http://amiga.emugaming.com/)*