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Amiga 500+

Producer: Amiga - Category: Personal Computer

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Photo 1: Sernot at it.wikipedia (Non-creditable modifications as described below made by Ubcule, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Amiga 500 Plus (white background).jpg)

Home computer, 1991, Commodore. The Amiga 500 Plus is the 1991 revision of the Amiga 500 with the Enhanced Chip Set, 1 MB of chip RAM and Kickstart 2.04 as standard; it was sold only for about a year before the Amiga 600 replaced it, and some older games did not run on the new Kickstart.

Years1991 to 1992
ManufacturerCommodore International
ProcessorMotorola 68000 at 7.09 MHz (PAL) or 7.16 MHz (NTSC)
RAM1 MB chip RAM, expandable to 2 MB with a trapdoor expansion and up to 8 MB fast RAM through the side slot
ROM512 KB Kickstart 2.04
GraphicsEnhanced Chip Set (ECS), up to 1280 x 512 in 4 colours (Super Hires and Productivity modes), 32 colours from 4096, HAM
SoundPaula, 4 channels of 8 bit PCM in stereo
Built-in storage3.5" floppy disk drive (880 KB), battery-backed real time clock
Portsas the Amiga 500
Operating systemAmigaOS 2.04
Dimensions474 (W) x 330 (D) x 62 (H) mm

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