--- 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/)*