A500 Plus
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Introduction to the A500 Plus
The A500 proved to be very successful but had been around for quite a few years, and Commodore answered this with the release of the A500 Plus. The A500 Plus was cosmetically the same as the A500 (except for the Commodore A-500 Plus badge in the corner) but under the hood had a full 1MB CHIP RAM, the Enhanced Chipset and the new 2.04 Kickstart ROMs. Unfortunately, these upgrades caused some problems with early games which would not run on the A500 Plus causing either Software Failure messages or other unsual side effects. This was solved by using some software like ReloKick to temporarily downgrade the machine to Kickstart 1.3 so that these stubborn games would work correctly.
Specifications
| Released | 1991 |
|---|---|
| CPU | 68000 |
| CPU speed | 7.0 MHz (PAL) 7.1 MHz (NTSC) |
| Chipset | ECS |
| RAM | 1MB CHIP RAM |
| Kickstart ROM | 2.04 |
| Workbench | 2.04 |
