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- CHOOSING AN AMIGA AND THE DIFFERENCES
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- This article is going to help you choose an Amiga, what are the
- advantages over an Amiga to a PC? Take a look................
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- A500
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- The base machine. This is one of the baby Amiga's who hangs around with
- his twins the A600 and A500+. It comes with WB1.3 and has a 68000
- CPU as standard. It has the fatter Agnus chip , 1 Floppy drive an can come
- with a HD or not. It has 512k as standard. Cost £199:00
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- A500+
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- The other base machine, It comes with a 68000 as standard and 1mb built in,
- battery backed real time clock. 1 Floppy and a HD if asked for. WB2.05,
- Kickstart 37.300/37.175/37.299. An ECS chip set including the Hi-res denise
- which provides the extra graphic modes, and a super fat agnus chip which can
- support up to 2mb's. Cost £150:00 - £199:00
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- A600
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- The other base machine, comes with a 68000, 1 floppy, HD if asked for, 1mb
- chip ram, built in floppy drive. Kickstart 37.175/37.299/37.300. ECS Chip
- set. Identical to the A500+ but with out the battery backed clock. It also
- is £100:00 cheaper than the A500+ but less expandable due to surface mount
- technology.
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- A600HD
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- As above with the inclusion of a 20mb HD. Cost £220:00
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- Amiga CDTV
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- An Amiga500 with a CD Rom built in. Black colored. 68000 CPU External
- optional keyboard costing £50 disk drive optional £99. Lets you use a whole
- range of CD titles which are also available to A500/500+/600 user by use of
- the A570/670. Round Joystick ports like the C16 and a new expansion port.
- WB 1.3 Kick1.3. Price around £150:00. Killed off by CD³².
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- Amiga 1200
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- Cut down version of the A4000. AGA chip set. Workbench 3.00 Kick 3.00.
- Kick 39.100. Casing is a similar design to A600 but with the addition
- of the numeric keypad. A cross between the A600 and the A500.
- Price around £299:00.
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- Amiga CD³²
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- The long awaited CDTV². Or the Amiga CD console. CD³² is a grey coloured
- box, looking similar to a SEGA megadrive. It used CD's and doesn't need
- a caddy. Looks beutiful! Kick 3.00 , Workbench N/A. Price £299.00
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- Now onto the BIG AMIGA's
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- A1000
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- This machine is the original Amiga back in 1984. It is a very expandable
- machine. With a 68000 CPU, almost identical to the A2000. A different
- expansion port to the 2000 though. External keyboard and 1 built in floppy
- drive, 216k memory as standard no HD can be bought with it though it can
- still be bought externally in some companies as can the memory expansions.
- WB1.2 Kick comes on a disk, V1.2
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- A1500
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- An A2000 with a different badge and an extra floppy. Can be bought with a HD
- or not. The A1500 is the ideal computer for the family or business,
- designed to cover every ones needs. WB2.04 Kick2.00
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- A2000
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- Identical to the A1000 with an optional HD. WB2.00 Kick2.00
- Kick is a chip not a disk on this version.
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- A2200
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- Commodore decided not to market this machine any where in the world. in
- short was discontinued before it even was released.
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- A2500
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- An A2000 with a 68020 processor.
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- A3000
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- The second from top machine, 68030 CPU, 32bit processor, 1mb floppy /High
- density floppy if asked for, 200mb HD , 2mb chip ram 4mb fast. This is the
- same as the A3000T-040/200. WB2.00 Kick2.00
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- A4000/30
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- A4000 with a cut down processor (680EC30). Cost £1500:00
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- A4000
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- 68040 CPU,1 floppy clocked at 25mhz, 2MB of chip for graphics and 4MB Fast ,
- 120Mb HD is included, floppy is high density, can read PC disks. 3 AC slots
- for PC cards are included, 24bit Video slot and 4 ZorroIII slots. Advanced
- graphics and chip set. Max colors 16.7 million 256.000 can be displayed as
- Super HAM (HAM8) can be used. 32bit. 64 pixel sprites. WB3.0 Kick3.0
- includes cross-DOS. Sold for $3966 £2000 in UK. AGA chip set.
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