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---
title: Commodore AMIGA 1500
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- Germany
years:
- '1990'
cpus:
- Motorola 68000
params:
name: AMIGA 1500
company: /companies/commodore
company_name: Commodore
specs:
- label: NAME
value: AMIGA 1500
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Commodore
- label: TYPE
value: Home Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: Germany
- label: YEAR
value: '1990'
- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
value: None
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Full-stroke 102 keys with numeric keypad, function and arrow keys
- label: CPU
value: Motorola 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: 1 MB on board
- label: ROM
value: 256 KB
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 60 or 80 columns x 32 lines
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: From 320 x 256 to 640 x 512 (Same as A2000)
- label: COLORS
value: From 32 to 4096 (Same as A2000)
- label: SOUND
value: 4 voice 8 bit PCM
- label: I/O PORTS
value: Same as A2000
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: 2 x 3.5'' 880 KB Floppy Disk Drives
- label: OS
value: AMIGA WorKBench 1.3, Kickstart 2.04
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: Built-in power supply
- label: PRICE
value: £999
tabs:
- photos
- adverts
- hardware
- emulators
- links
- videos
photos:
- title: INSIDE THE A1500
subtitle: ''
text: Note the dual Floppy disk drives, the optional VGA video board (right side), memory expansion and SCSI Hard disk drive boards (expansion slots area).
image: null
- title: MOTHERBOARD EXPLAINED
subtitle: ''
text: |-
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
image: null
adverts:
- title: U.K. ADVERT (1990)
subtitle: ''
text: |-
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)
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: 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: Harald
date: Wednesday 12th August 2015
text: 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: Yoji (UK)
date: Friday 1st May 2015
text: 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: Yoji (UK)
date: Friday 1st May 2015
text: 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: Marga (Spain)
date: Tuesday 4th January 2011
text: Anyone interested in selling a A1500? I''ve been looking for everywhere. Please, if so, I''m willing to negotiate. thanks
- author: Mathew Child (UK)
date: Wednesday 6th September 2006
text: 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: Peter Gordon (UK)
date: Wednesday 29th May 2002
text: |-
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.
related:
- /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
oc_id: 624
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230327223111/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=624
date: '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.
---
**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...
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