Amiga Hardware Upgrade Options

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The A600 is probably the least expandable Amiga model of them all.  Its small and compact size has the advantage of taking up less room than any other model, while retaining the same features and capacities of the older A500+ model.  There are however still quite a few upgraded that can be added to the A600 to expand it.
The A600 is probably the least expandable Amiga model of them all.  Its small and compact size has the advantage of taking up less room than any other model, while retaining the same features and capacities of the older A500+ model.  There are however still quite a few upgraded that can be added to the A600 to expand it.

Revision as of 01:18, 26 November 2008

Over the years many different models of Amiga were released. Commodore and third party hardware developers utilised every possible idea to add hardware upgrades and expansions for all models of Amiga to expand them with more ram, faster processors, harddrives, sound cards, network cards.. etc.

This section of the classicamiga Wiki will explore the variety of expansions available to show some of the possibilities available to get the most from each model of Amiga.

Contents

Amiga 1000

A2000/A1500/A2500

A500/A500+

A600

The A600 is probably the least expandable Amiga model of them all. Its small and compact size has the advantage of taking up less room than any other model, while retaining the same features and capacities of the older A500+ model. There are however still quite a few upgraded that can be added to the A600 to expand it.

Expansion Ports

  • Trapdoor Memory slot

The trapdoor slot was designed specifically for the A601 1MB Chip ram expansion card. This upgraded the A600 to 2MB of chip ram which is very useful for productivity software.

  • Internal 2.5" IDE Port

This port is designed for a laptop style 2.5" Harddrive. To use this port the A600 must have a kickstart 2.05 rom with a version number of 37.500.

  • PCMCIA slot

The PCMCIA card slot on the side of the A600 can be used for a selection of upgrades for the A600

Custom upgrades

In addition to the upgrades possible with the A600 using the built in expansion ports, some third party developers also created upgraded that connected directly to the A600's motherboard, allowing upgrades beyond the original design of the A600.

A1200

A4000

CDTV

CD32

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