| The Amiga 500, introduced by Commodore in 1987, was designed as a lower-cost alternative to the Amiga 2000 and became the most popular model in the Amiga lineup. It featured a Motorola 68000 CPU running at 7.16 MHz (NTSC) or 7.09 MHz (PAL) and shipped with 512 KB of RAM, expandable internally to 1 MB and further via external memory expansions. The system used the Original Chip Set (OCS), giving it powerful graphics and sound for its time. It supported multiple screen resolutions and up to 4096 colors in Hold-And-Modify mode, along with four-channel stereo sound. Later revisions of the Amiga 500 (sometimes referred to as Amiga 500 Plus) came equipped with the Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) and Kickstart 2.04. The Amiga 500 was housed in a compact, all-in-one keyboard case and included a built-in 3.5″ double-density floppy disk drive. It lacked internal hard drive options but supported external drives and expansion modules through the side expansion port and other interfaces. Thanks to its relatively low price, advanced multimedia capabilities, and broad software support—particularly for games—the Amiga 500 enjoyed widespread success in Europe and helped define home computing in the late 1980s and early 1990s. |
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