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Commodore Amiga 500+
Developer: Commodore International
Launch date: 1991 |
This is widely known as the shortest-lived Amiga ever, lasting only
6 months until it was phased out by the A600. This was yet another
of Commodores secrets with many people opening their Amigas at
Christmas expecting to find a A500 only to find something much
better. It looked physically similar to the A500, but updated it with 1mb of ram, Enhanced Chip
Set (ECS) and Workbench 2.0 which turned the horrible blue
interface of workbench 1.3 into a much more lovely grey and blue.
It also allowed the user to see files that did not have icons
without resorting to the CLI and put among other things the
FastFileSystem into ROM (Kickstart) allowing you to boot from FFS
disks containing 880k of data.
Amiga 500 Technical
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