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Commodore AMIGA 1500	Computers	Home Computer	Germany	1990	Motorola 68000	name company company_name specs tabs photos adverts hardware emulators links videos comments related oc_id source AMIGA 1500 /companies/commodore Commodore label value NAME AMIGA 1500 label value MANUFACTURER Commodore label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN Germany label value YEAR 1990 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE None label value KEYBOARD Full-stroke 102 keys with numeric keypad, function and arrow keys label value CPU Motorola 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 1 MB on board label value ROM 256 KB label value TEXT MODES 60 or 80 columns x 32 lines label value GRAPHIC MODES From 320 x 256 to 640 x 512 (Same as A2000) label value COLORS From 32 to 4096 (Same as A2000) label value SOUND 4 voice 8 bit PCM label value I/O PORTS Same as A2000 label value BUILT IN MEDIA 2 x 3.5'' 880 KB Floppy Disk Drives label value OS AMIGA WorKBench 1.3, Kickstart 2.04 label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply label value PRICE £999 photos adverts hardware emulators links videos title subtitle text image INSIDE THE A1500 Note the dual Floppy disk drives, the optional VGA video board (right side), memory expansion and SCSI Hard disk drive boards (expansion slots area). null title subtitle text image MOTHERBOARD EXPLAINED The A-2000 motherboard version 6.2, designed in Germany, manufactured and assembled in Hong-Kong. **(1)** 2 x 8 bits PC-ISA slots\ **(2)** 2 x 16 bits PC-ISA slots inline with Zorro slots\ **(3)** Power connector\ **(4)** Serial DB-25 male connector\ **(5)** Stereo audio and composite video chinch connectors output\ **(6)** External floppy disk drive unit connector\ **(7)** 2 x 8520 I/O chips\ **(8)** Parallel printer connector\ **(9)** RGB video out DB-23 connector\ **(10)** Video slot\ **(11)** GARY system address decoder coprocessor\ **(12)** PAULA audio and I/O controller coprocessor\ **(13)** DENISE graphic coprocessor\ **(14)** FAT LADY display controller coprocessor\ **(15)** 8 x 4256 chips (256,000 x 4 bits) holding 1 MB main RAM memory\ **(16)** Joystick connectors\ **(17)** Keyboard connector\ **(18)** Permanent clock battery\ **(19)** 7.14 Mhz 68000 microprocessor\ **(20)** Permanent clock quartz and chip\ **(21)** 5 x Zorro slots and 1 x fast CPU slot null title subtitle text image U.K. ADVERT (1990) In this U.K. advert, the Amiga 1500 was sold at £1149.99 with a colour monitor, 4 games (Battle Chess, Sim City, Populous, Battle of Britain) and the home business suite Platinium Works. The Amiga 500 was also sold at £399.99 Thanks to [The Arctic Computer & Console Museum](http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net) null 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 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 author date text Harald Wednesday 12th August 2015 For anyone wanting to get an A1500 might as well look for an A2000 instead. They are much more common. The only difference is in the label (and the extra floppy), the mainboard is just an A2000 one (as mentioned here). It was purely a marketing thing, and only sold in the UK afaik. author date text Yoji (UK) Friday 1st May 2015 I still have an Amiga 1500..though the one I bought had a "massive" 52MB HDD? and I think I added extra mem to expand it to 3MB in total.. and I also upgraded from 1.3 to 2.04. I really need get it down from attic and fire it up author date text Yoji (UK) Friday 1st May 2015 I still have an Amiga 1500..though the one I bought had a "massive" 52MB HDD? and I think I added extra mem to expand it to 3MB in total.. and I also upgraded from 1.3 to 2.04. I really need get it down from attic and fire it up author date text Marga (Spain) Tuesday 4th January 2011 Anyone interested in selling a A1500? I''ve been looking for everywhere. Please, if so, I''m willing to negotiate. thanks author date text Mathew Child (UK) Wednesday 6th September 2006 I had bought an A1500 from new, it all came in a box marked a1500, but under the a1500 sticker was a nice shiney A2000 one, so wanting to look even more flash I peeled it off and made out I splashed out even more. author date text Peter Gordon (UK) Wednesday 29th May 2002 I have one of these! The motherboard is a B2000 R6. The manual says "Amiga 2000 manual", and has a sticker with "Includes A1500". Nice machines. /museum/commodore-amiga-1000 /museum/commodore-amiga-1200 /museum/commodore-amiga-2000 /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 624 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230327223111/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=624 2023-03-27

The Amiga 1500 was a variation of the Amiga 2000 that was only available in the U.K. in 1990.

This system came with two internal floppy disk drives (only one for the 2000), but without hard disk and controller card. Nevertheless, it was a true Amiga 2000 that could be easily upgraded. It also featured one of the latest motherboard version (6.2), the ECS chipset and Kickstart 2.04.

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Alan Lewis reports to us:
The Commodore Amiga 1500 was bought out with one purpose in life...
A Uk company, Checkmate Digital, had produced an "exapansion" box for the A500. It was a complete new system case for the A500, offering expansion slots/ports, internal storage bayes, etc. Checkmate called it the A1500, and was available as a kit, or pre-assembed complete with A500 computer. And it was quite succesful...

Shortly afterwards, Commodore bought out the A1500. oddly enough, the only difference between an Commodore A1500 and a B2000... the 1500 had an additional floppy drive and a b/w A1500 sticker... the two machines were identical. The B2000 was supposed to have had a hard disk added, but resellers all sold these models as optionals...