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title: Commodore AMIGA 1500
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categories:
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- Computers
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types:
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- Home Computer
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origins:
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- Germany
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years:
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- '1990'
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cpus:
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- Motorola 68000
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params:
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name: AMIGA 1500
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image: /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga1500_system_1.jpg
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company: /companies/commodore
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company_name: Commodore
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specs:
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- label: NAME
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value: AMIGA 1500
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- label: MANUFACTURER
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value: Commodore
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- label: TYPE
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value: Home Computer
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- label: ORIGIN
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value: Germany
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- label: YEAR
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value: '1990'
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- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
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value: None
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- label: KEYBOARD
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value: Full-stroke 102 keys with numeric keypad, function and arrow keys
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- label: CPU
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value: Motorola 68000
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- label: SPEED
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value: 7.14 Mhz.
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- label: CO-PROCESSOR
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value: Fat Agnus (MMU), Paula (Sound & IO), Denise (video), Gary, OCS/ECS chipset
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- label: RAM
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value: 1 MB on board
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- label: ROM
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value: 256 KB
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- label: TEXT MODES
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value: 60 or 80 columns x 32 lines
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- label: GRAPHIC MODES
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value: From 320 x 256 to 640 x 512 (Same as A2000)
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- label: COLORS
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value: From 32 to 4096 (Same as A2000)
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- label: SOUND
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value: 4 voice 8 bit PCM
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- label: I/O PORTS
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value: Same as A2000
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- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
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value: 2 x 3.5'' 880 KB Floppy Disk Drives
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- label: OS
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value: AMIGA WorKBench 1.3, Kickstart 2.04
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- label: POWER SUPPLY
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value: Built-in power supply
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- label: PRICE
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value: £999
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tabs:
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- photos
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- adverts
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- hardware
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- emulators
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- links
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- videos
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forum_thread: 611
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photos:
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- title: INSIDE THE A1500
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subtitle: ''
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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).
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image: /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga1500_system_2.jpg
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- title: MOTHERBOARD EXPLAINED
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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The A-2000 motherboard version 6.2, designed in Germany, manufactured and assembled in Hong-Kong.
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**(1)** 2 x 8 bits PC-ISA slots\
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**(2)** 2 x 16 bits PC-ISA slots inline with Zorro slots\
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**(3)** Power connector\
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**(4)** Serial DB-25 male connector\
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**(5)** Stereo audio and composite video chinch connectors output\
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**(6)** External floppy disk drive unit connector\
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**(7)** 2 x 8520 I/O chips\
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**(8)** Parallel printer connector\
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**(9)** RGB video out DB-23 connector\
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**(10)** Video slot\
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**(11)** GARY system address decoder coprocessor\
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**(12)** PAULA audio and I/O controller coprocessor\
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**(13)** DENISE graphic coprocessor\
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**(14)** FAT LADY display controller coprocessor\
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**(15)** 8 x 4256 chips (256,000 x 4 bits) holding 1 MB main RAM memory\
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**(16)** Joystick connectors\
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**(17)** Keyboard connector\
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**(18)** Permanent clock battery\
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**(19)** 7.14 Mhz 68000 microprocessor\
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**(20)** Permanent clock quartz and chip\
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**(21)** 5 x Zorro slots and 1 x fast CPU slot
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image: /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga2000_motherboard_1.jpg
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adverts:
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- title: U.K. ADVERT (1990)
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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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.
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The Amiga 500 was also sold at £399.99
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Thanks to [The Arctic Computer & Console Museum](http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net)
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image: /media/museum/pubs/commodore_amiga1500_pub_1.jpg
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hardware:
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- title: MIDI GOLD 500
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subtitle: by Golden Hawk Technology
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text: |-
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This is a MIDI interface for the Amiga 500, 2000, or 3000...
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It features :\
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\- one MIDI In\
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\- two MIDI Out\
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\- one switchable Out/Thru\
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\- one MIDI/Serial Switch\
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\- one Out/Thru Switch
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image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga_golden-hawk-midi-interface.jpg
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- title: AMIGA 1300
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subtitle: Genlock
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1000_1300-genlock.jpg
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- title: MEMORY EXPANSION BOARD
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subtitle: ''
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text: 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 MB expansion card here fitted with 2 MB.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1500_memboard_1.jpg
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- title: VIDEO BOARD
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subtitle: ''
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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.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1500_videoboard_1.jpg
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- title: A570 CD-ROM
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subtitle: ''
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text: Thanks to David Griffith for this picture
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image: /media/museum/hardware/amiga_cdrom_a570_1.jpg
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- title: HARD DISK CARD
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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40 MB SCSI card from SUPRA CORP.
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Additional SCSI devices could be connected in chain trough the back connector
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image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1500_hdboard_1.jpg
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emulators:
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- title: Amiga Forever
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url: http://www.amigaforever.com/
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platform: Windows
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text: Complete but commercial Amiga emulator
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- title: AMIthlon & AmigaXL
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url: http://amigaosxl.haage-partner.de/index-e.html
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platform: Windows
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text: Powerful commercial emulators
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- title: WinFellow
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url: HTTP://FELLOW.SOURCEFORGE.NET
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platform: Windows
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text: Probably better at some games than UAE, but not as versatile.
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- title: WinUAE
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url: http://www.winuae.net/
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platform: Windows
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text: The best Amiga emulator ? :-)
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- title: Max UAE
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url: http://maxuae.de/
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platform: Apple
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text: UAE for Mac OS X
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- title: AmigaSYS
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url: http://amigasys.fw.hu/
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platform: Unix / Linux
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text: AmigaSYS is a pre-installed full Amiga OS for WinUAE
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- title: Pocket UAE
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url: http://pocketinsanity.sourceforge.net/
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platform: Other platform
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text: Amiga Emulator for Pocket PC
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- title: Experimental UAE
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url: http://www.rcdrummond.net/uae/
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platform: Multiplatform
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text: Standard UAE enhanced with features from WinUAE.
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- title: MESS
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url: http://www.mess.org
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platform: Multiplatform
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text: MESS now emulates the Commodore Amiga
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- title: UAE
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url: http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/
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platform: Multiplatform
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text: '(Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator) for BeOS, Mac OS, Linux, NextStep, MSDOS, OS/2 and Win95/NT : Homepage.'
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links:
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- title: Amiga animations
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url: http://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/
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text: A collection of Amiga Animations. This is the only site where you can see them online!
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- title: Amiga Interactive Guide
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url: http://amiga.emugaming.com/
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text: Excellent site ! A lot of very interesting infos there.
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- title: Amiga Island
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url: http://www.virtualpast.de/
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text: Excellent site with ROMs to download!
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- title: Amiga Web Directory
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url: http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html
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text: ''
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- title: AMIGART.COM
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url: http://www.amigart.com
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text: Nice site with Amiga news
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- title: Back to the Roots
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url: HTTP://WWW.BACK2ROOTS.ORG/
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text: Amiga culture, guides, huge collection of legally downloadable software, and much more.
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- title: Lex Site - Amiga Hardware Database
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url: http://amiga.multigraph.com/
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text: The website title says it all!
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- title: NetBSD-Amiga
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url: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/amiga/index.html
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text: ''
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- title: Old Computer Mags
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url: http://www.old-computer-mags.com/
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text: Scans of old computer and videogames magazine
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- title: Recorded Amiga Games
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url: http://www.recordedamigagames.org
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text: Speedrun, longplay and misc videos of Amiga games and more.
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- title: RetroPack
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url: http://www.retropack.co.uk/
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text: Website dedicated to selling original Amigas, CD32s and Amiga/CD32 Games.
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- title: The Amiga Monitor
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url: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MikeWebb/amhome.html
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text: ''
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- title: The Big Book of Amiga Hardware
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url: http://www.amiga-hardware.com/
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text: Pics & info (pinouts, jumpers etc.) for just about every piece of Amiga related hardware there is
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- title: The English Amiga Board
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url: http://eab.abime.net/
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text: Community site for Amiga fans
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- title: World-Wide Amiga - Online!!
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url: http://www.amiga.org/
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text: ''
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- title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
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url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
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text: Reviews of Amiga software, hardware
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videos:
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- title: Commodore Amiga commercial - EXIT
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url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8721405286052618769&hl=fr
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text: 'Length: 41 s'
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- title: Commodore Amiga 500 commercial
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url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5737538578208665725&hl=fr
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text: 'Length: 29 s'
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- title: Commodore Amiga 1000 commercial
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url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5356507595228759374&hl=fr
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text: 'Length: 32 s'
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- title: Commodore Amiga 600 italian commercial
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url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-768109352967297990&hl=fr
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text: 'Length: 19 s'
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- title: Commodore Amiga packs commercial
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url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdaMq8JLyHA
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text: 'Length: 21 s'
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- title: Commodore Amiga TV Ad - Celebrities
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url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEFoj6sbDjU
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text: 'Length: 29 s'
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- title: Commodore Amiga 500 promotional video
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url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=9038863557655975739&hl=fr
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text: 'Length: 15 min 06 s'
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- title: 'Computer Chronicles: Amiga & Atari (1985)'
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url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8978343825632445107&hl=fr
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text: 'Length: 29 min 18 s'
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related:
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- /museum/commodore-amiga-1000
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- /museum/commodore-amiga-1200
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- /museum/commodore-amiga-2000
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- /museum/commodore-amiga-2500
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- /museum/commodore-amiga-3000
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- /museum/commodore-amiga-4000
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- /museum/commodore-amiga-500
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- /museum/commodore-amiga-500-plus
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- /museum/commodore-amiga-600
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- /museum/commodore-amiga-600hd
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- /museum/commodore-cdtv
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oc_id: 624
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230327223111/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=624
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date: '2023-03-27'
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The Amiga 1500 was a variation of the Amiga 2000 that was only available in the U.K. in 1990.
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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:\
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The Commodore Amiga 1500 was bought out with one purpose in life...\
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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...
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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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