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Introduction to the A1000
The A1000 was the first Amiga released to the public. The A1000 was quite a basic model, and there were two different models. One was an NTSC model, which didn't feature the EHB modes (64 Colours) which appeared later on, the other was a PAL model, which featured the EHB mode. The A1000 was replaced by the A2000 and the A500 which both featured Kickstart in ROM
Until the release of the A2000 the A1000 was simply referred to as the Commodore Amiga
The A1000 features a different Kickstart system to the other models in the Amiga range. It has an 8kb Bootstrap ROM which then in turn loads Kickstart off a Kickstart floppy disk that you insert. This Kickstart then gets loaded in to a special area of WOM (Write-Once-Memory). This area of memory is only 256kb and therefore only Kickstart versions from 1.0 to 1.3 are supported.
The only other Amiga model to feature a similar Kickstart arrangement was early A3000's
Specifications
| Released | 1985 |
|---|---|
| End of production | 1987 |
| CPU | 68000 |
| CPU speed | 7.0 MHz (PAL) 7.1 MHz (NTSC) |
| Chipset | OCS (Original Chipset) |
| RAM | 256kb CHIP RAM Later versions with 512kb CHIP RAM |
| Kickstart ROM | 8kb Bootstrap ROM Boots Kickstart from disk |
| Workbench | Depends on Kickstart version |
| Price | £1700 (UK, 1985) - $1500 (USA, 1986) - £1285 (UK, Nov. 1986, 512K RAM) |
