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Commodore AMIGA 2000	Computers	Home Computer	U.S.A.	1987	Motorola MC 68000	name image company company_name specs tabs forum_thread photos hardware emulators links videos related oc_id source AMIGA 2000 /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga2000_system_1.jpg /companies/commodore Commodore label value NAME AMIGA 2000 label value MANUFACTURER Commodore label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR March 1987 label value END OF PRODUCTION 1990 label value KEYBOARD Full-stroke keyboard with seperated numeric keypad and arrow keys label value CPU Motorola MC 68000 label value SPEED 7.14 mHz label value CO-PROCESSOR Fat Agnus (MMU), Paula (Sound & IO), Denise (video), Gary, OCS/ECS chipset label value RAM 512k or 1Mb (512K CHIP, 512K FAST on board), depending on models\ up to 9Mb : 1Mb Chip RAM + 8Mb FAST RAM label value ROM 256 KB (DOS 1.2) label value TEXT MODES 60 x 32 / 80 x 32 label value GRAPHIC MODES 320 x 256 / 320 x 512 / 640 x 256 / 640 x 512 label value COLORS 32 (for 320 x X modes), 16 (for 640 x X modes) among 4096 + 2 special modes EHB (64 colors) + HAM (4096 colors) label value SOUND 4 voice 8 bit PCM label value I/O PORTS 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 value BUILT IN MEDIA one 3.5'' disk-drive (880k)\ SCSI HD in 2000HD models label value OS AMIGA WorKBench 1.3, Kickstart 1.2, 1.3 then 2.04 label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in PSU label value PRICE £2000 (UK, 1986) photos hardware emulators links videos 79 title subtitle text image ANOTHER CONFIGURATION Here, there are one 3''1/2 disk-drive and one 5''1/4 disk-drive. /media/museum/photos/commodore_a2000_2.jpg title subtitle text image AMIGA 2000-HD This is an Amiga 2000-HD computer with a 44Mb Syquest drive and 2 floppy drives. /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga-2000hd_1.jpg title subtitle text image DIAGRAM Block diagram of the Amiga 2000 architecture /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga2000_diagram_1.jpg title subtitle text image VIDEO TOASTER 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. /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga2000_toaster_s1.jpg title subtitle text image MIDI GOLD 500 by Golden Hawk Technology 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 /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga_golden-hawk-midi-interface.jpg title subtitle text image A2088 PC Emulator board 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 /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga2000_pccard_1.jpg title subtitle text image A2091 SCSI controller /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga2000_a2091-scsi-controller.jpg title subtitle text image AMIGA 1300 Genlock /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1000_1300-genlock.jpg title subtitle text image MEMORY EXPANSION BOARD 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 MB expansion card here fitted with 2 MB. /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1500_memboard_1.jpg title subtitle text image VIDEO BOARD 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. /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1500_videoboard_1.jpg title subtitle text image A570 CD-ROM Thanks to David Griffith for this picture /media/museum/hardware/amiga_cdrom_a570_1.jpg title subtitle text image HARD DISK CARD 40 MB SCSI card from SUPRA CORP. Additional SCSI devices could be connected in chain trough the back connector /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1500_hdboard_1.jpg title url platform text Amiga Forever http://www.amigaforever.com/ Windows Complete but commercial Amiga emulator title url platform text AMIthlon & AmigaXL http://amigaosxl.haage-partner.de/index-e.html Windows Powerful commercial emulators title url platform text WinFellow HTTP://FELLOW.SOURCEFORGE.NET Windows Probably better at some games than UAE, but not as versatile. title url platform text WinUAE http://www.winuae.net/ Windows The best Amiga emulator ? :-) title url platform text Max UAE http://maxuae.de/ Apple UAE for Mac OS X title url platform text AmigaSYS http://amigasys.fw.hu/ Unix / Linux AmigaSYS is a pre-installed full Amiga OS for WinUAE title url platform text Pocket UAE http://pocketinsanity.sourceforge.net/ Other platform Amiga Emulator for Pocket PC title url platform text Experimental UAE http://www.rcdrummond.net/uae/ Multiplatform Standard UAE enhanced with features from WinUAE. title url platform text MESS http://www.mess.org Multiplatform MESS now emulates the Commodore Amiga title url platform text UAE http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/ Multiplatform (Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator) for BeOS, Mac OS, Linux, NextStep, MSDOS, OS/2 and Win95/NT : Homepage. title url text Amiga animations http://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/ A collection of Amiga Animations. This is the only site where you can see them online! title url text Amiga Interactive Guide http://amiga.emugaming.com/ Excellent site ! A lot of very interesting infos there. title url text Amiga Island http://www.virtualpast.de/ Excellent site with ROMs to download! title url text Amiga Web Directory http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html title url text AMIGART.COM http://www.amigart.com Nice site with Amiga news title url text Back to the Roots HTTP://WWW.BACK2ROOTS.ORG/ Amiga culture, guides, huge collection of legally downloadable software, and much more. title url text Lex Site - Amiga Hardware Database http://amiga.multigraph.com/ The website title says it all! title url text NetBSD-Amiga http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/amiga/index.html title url text Old Computer Mags http://www.old-computer-mags.com/ Scans of old computer and videogames magazine title url text Recorded Amiga Games http://www.recordedamigagames.org Speedrun, longplay and misc videos of Amiga games and more. title url text RetroPack http://www.retropack.co.uk/ Website dedicated to selling original Amigas, CD32s and Amiga/CD32 Games. title url text The Amiga Monitor http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MikeWebb/amhome.html title url text The Big Book of Amiga Hardware http://www.amiga-hardware.com/ Pics & info (pinouts, jumpers etc.) for just about every piece of Amiga related hardware there is title url text The English Amiga Board http://eab.abime.net/ Community site for Amiga fans title url text World-Wide Amiga - Online!! http://www.amiga.org/ title url text Web Wiz CAPTCHA http://www.webwizcaptcha.com Reviews of Amiga software, hardware title url text Commodore Amiga commercial - EXIT http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8721405286052618769&hl=fr Length: 41 s title url text Commodore Amiga 500 commercial http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5737538578208665725&hl=fr Length: 29 s title url text Commodore Amiga 1000 commercial http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5356507595228759374&hl=fr Length: 32 s title url text Commodore Amiga 600 italian commercial http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-768109352967297990&hl=fr Length: 19 s title url text Commodore Amiga packs commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdaMq8JLyHA Length: 21 s title url text Commodore Amiga TV Ad - Celebrities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEFoj6sbDjU Length: 29 s title url text Commodore Amiga 500 promotional video http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=9038863557655975739&hl=fr Length: 15 min 06 s title url text Computer Chronicles: Amiga & Atari (1985) http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8978343825632445107&hl=fr Length: 29 min 18 s /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 63 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230607215919/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=63 2023-06-07

The Commodore Amiga 2000 is the successor of the Amiga 1000. As the 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 systems were based upon the final revisions of the A2000-B motherboard design before the A3000 was released.

The A1500 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