I went from the VIC-20 to the C64, then the Amiga 1000, a second-hand A500, then an A4000/030. I later got a used A1200 and CD32. Finally, I saw an Amiga 600 on display in an electronics store (Dixons or Currys, for your UK viewers) sitting unloved, and I managed to get it as a "manager's special" for £40. It wasn't complete, but it was still a good buy I thought. Its compact size endeared it to me, but I've barely used it. The A4000/030 remains my favourite Amiga, with the A1000 in second place. Opening my A600 just the other day, I find evidence of leaking caps to the left of the IDE connector, so I'm researching 'recap' videos.
Great video and good to see you back :) I really think it depends what you want from an Amiga, for me the A600 is perfect, even with its base 68000 it's an incredibly usable machine so long as you have some extra chip RAM (cheap as chips) and a bit of fast RAM. I use mine for DPaint and Games, it will very happily work on Blitz Basic projects as well as Scala at a pinch. Admittedly I am a very patient person. It's the absolute solid reliability of it in a small package that charms me, and because of that it's coming with me to Japan and is going to be pressed into some animation work :) That and the Amiga 600 I bought in 1993 at the age of ten is still with me and still works.
@@RETROCENGO Amiga is dead. I repeat: DEAD in 1994 (in 1990 whit Amiga 3000 IMHO). Unfortunately for all of us. This is classical sample when computer science/hobby became religion. There is nothing a modern computer cannot do infinite times better than the Amiga. It is sad but it is so. My interest in these glorious old machines is historic, but I am baffled by certain expressions about "old times". The Amiga is dead, computer technology is going on.
@@hakudo3162 computer technology is moving "backwards" unfortunaltely. Pc , laptops and phablets gets obsolete and deprecated every 6 months offering little to nothing in the technology field. An Amiga 500 is a masterpiece of brilliant engineering even nowdays. If you want to follow the new technology have in mind that new technology needs to be replaced in 6 to 12 months - call it a defect capacitor , call it a defect chip call it a underpowered processor...And yes this is not happening in the Amiga world even in 2021. Amiga culture and pioneer enginnering is far from dead thankfully for all of us.
I was a big box guy. I saw the big box units as "damm close to Unix" (in the way Amiga came across, acted + responded) high end graphical workstations long before I saw them as computers. Both the smaller ones also had many charms in many ways. Commodore's refusal to Sun's proposal about the 3K... boggles the imagination.
Glad to see you’re back making videos! I’ve got an A1200, A600 and two A500s - and the A600 is my favorite too. Very cute, and doesn’t take up a table.
This video has been extremely helpful in helping me pick an Amiga to try out the platform with. I've managed to pick up a 600 at a local auction and I'm hoping to enjoy it as much as others clearly do!
As a guy who was only able to experience an Amiga *once* in my life through a friend way back in middle school, this type of coverage is a gold mine. Thanks for the info. I look forward to learning more.
I was a A500+ guy, (my 1st Amiga). I skipped the 600 as I had all the sidecar addons for my A500+, scic HD (40Mb), 2 meg fast ram, etc.. I later got a A2000 w/040 and a pc card. I wish I had held on to that equipment. I had so much fun with those computers back in the day.
We never had any expansions for our A500+, but I saw the sidecar ads in magazines and I thought they looked really good, extending the form of the case and giving the humble A500 the potential to become a very serious machine. The only downsides were, as I recall, fairly high prices and of course one needs quite a wide desk to accomodate them.
Todd is back! Great video buddy instant 👍🏻 The Amiga600 my first love! I’m all into the Amiga 500 Plus + ACA500PLUS but the A600 still has a special place in my heart
Great video, thanks! I got A600 in 1992 and I still love it. Just had it recapped and bought the Furia and IDE/SD adapter. Previously had a 1 Mb RAM expansion, PCMCIA/CF-adapter and a new internal floppy drive. Now the A600 is going to last me another 30 years!
Great video and summary. I had a vanilla 2000 in the day (early 1989). Still have one today ; 68040 + 2MB Chip, but its so big its in storage. I have an A4000 (040) with its own monitor on my study desk, and an (AT) A1200 for games. 27 years later.
I had, still have a Amiga 2000 with a GVP GForce 68040 running at 33 Mhz. Along with that card was a 1.2GB SCSI hard drive. I used a GVP G-LOCK for overlaying text and graffics on a video using S-Video in and out. Also had a setup on the Amiga to do assemble video editing using my Hi-8 camera and Hi-8 deck. This was in about 92. I have a mod board on the Fat Agnus chip I think gave me more chip ram. I opened it up to look at the battery, I was happy to see there was no corrosion. The rest of the board looks good. I'll probably take the board out to clean. Then look into retro bright for the keyboard. Looking forward to turning it back on. Need to make a image of the HD.
I didn't know much about the Amiga 600; I only own 500, 1000, and 2000 models, and wish I had a 1200. The 600 would be great to have, and I'll grab one if the price is right!
My favorite is the A2000HD which I have owned since the early 1990's. I own all the Amiga Models except the A3000. The Amiga I use most is the A600 which has a Vampire in it and its a pure joy to use but I like the small form factor of it and it fits nicely in the corner of my L Shaped Desk. Now I am not into games but if I play games it will be either on the A600 or the A1200. The reason the A2000HD is my favorite is because its been with me forever and I used it to run a multiline BBS back in the day but also I used it for productivity applications, running Mac System 7 using an AMAX II and not so much for games but if I were to play a game it would either be Battle Chess or Lynx.
I got a 500 just for the nostalgia (I really wanted one as a kid) but the benefits of the A600 did make it a tempting alternative when I was looking for a machine to buy - mainly the hard drive interface and the PCMCIA slot. The PCMCIA slot is a pretty economical way to add good networking hardware to the Amiga (none of that "Plipbox" junk!) - but in the end I really just wanted to go back and get the machine I saw in the shop in 1988.
it is not, the a 600 was meant to be the A300 and be cheaper than the a500.. they screwed up, made it 50-70 pounds more expensive so they changed the name to 600 and phased out the 500.. and this is in part what killed amiga...
I remember a moment when I was like 8 years old and someone on a local flea market sold his entire 600 collection along with games, office software, joysticks and a printer for 30 bucks in total. That was by the late 90's. The only reason mom couldn't buy it for me was that we had no car with us, so my dreams of owning one got crushed 😢
I have a similar setup. Except the PCMCIA is occupied by a ethernet adapter, with a fixed IP address (amitcp) and a FTP server constantly running. When I download something on a PC I just push it to the Amiga with TotalCmd built in FTP client. Then new 3.1.4 OS allows the full RAM of the Furia to be available despite using PCMCIA.
Nice video. Never had an A600, started with an A1000 and did about every mod I could on it then picked up an A3000T. Still miss that old stuff. Run Linux only here at home but might consider finding an A600 for some old time fun. Favorite games Welltris (think I spelled it right) and Fantastic Voyage from the old 1960s movie.
I own 3 amiga500s and they are still in their original boxes..i much preferred the bigger A500 to be honest..all amigas are awesome in my opinion...thanks for the video.
Had them all except the big box amiga's 2000/3000/4000 but started on and 1.2 than 1.3 had a 600 for a few days traded it for a 1200 with a scsi interface... but recently i got a 600 back with a furia rev 2 card cant wait to play some of my fav games.
i had an a600 with built in kickstart rom switcher with 2.0 and 1.3 and you would hold down reset to change it, that sorted out most of the compatibility problems i'm surprised the games that need the numeric keypad haven't been hacked to use other keys, with all the whdload installers with added bug fixes, trainers and ability to skip intros etc. that people have done
Nice video, Todd. Have to say, after watching you only convinced me further to pick the 500 between those two machines! hah! Those mouse ports would drive me nuts. It made sense to do that on the C64 since 99.9% of C64 users used joysticks, not mice. I think the 600 was being pushed to market with a similar mindset. But holy smoke.. they really should have put the ports on the back. PCMCIA is definitely a nice feature, no doubt. But I think I'll still keep the numpad. Thanks for sharing! Love your stuff.
Yeah, I'm not sure what Commodore was thinking by putting them on the side. I mean, it made sense on the 8bit machines because 99.9% of the time there was never a mouse attached (hello GEOS users!). But on a machine where the mouse is very important and the majority of the population is right handed... I dunno.
I’ve still got my Amiga 500 and 600 but shame about the room they take up however great machine. It was nice to see when I got a NesPi with Retropie on they included the Amiga emulator with games that all auto change the disk and run really well.
they're not bad, you can put all your furia's on it and what not, but sadly at the end of the day, it's not the AGA chipset which most of the coolest stuff needs.
Nice video and the pace is good. Something I've posed on Amibay, but would love your thoughts on whether my wee a600 with my Furia 020/40 should be treated to a Vampire 600 v2? I am on the wait-list (time unknown) and have a nice machine chugging along doing its thing. If and when my Vampire turn materialises, do I treat myself? I know this is very subjective, but I only have one physical Amiga and the obligatory FS-UAE, WinUAE, AF, Amikit, but am pining after my AGA 1200T somewhat and would love to use some old AGA titles on the real thing (i know, I should buy an A1200 too! ). So I guess my real. question is: Does the Vampire, in your opinion, detract from the feel of having a real Amiga, or is it, being an FPGA 68k core, like a lovely modern Amiga that we all really deserve?
Agreed. I can imagine back in the 90's people crapping on this machine because of it's lack of 3rd party hardware support. All that PCMCIA stuff was expensive and accelerators were scarce as hell. But today? Pfft...it's awesome!
@@ToddsNerdCave Right! We honestly thought it was a total waste back then - as expensive as an A500+, not even close to as expandable, and still a 68000. I don't think we were wrong at the time to think it was a silly machine. Now if they had accomplished their mission and made it a $199 computer, it may have been worth it.
The A600 is a nice AMIGA but not my thing. The AMIGA is always the A500 Rev6A with ACE2, Indivision ECS V1, ACA500Plus V1 and ACA1233n-55 IDE Speeder RTC. Is running WB 3.1.4.1 with BestWB 1.3. Have a 128GB CF FFS 4K and in the AUX a 64GB CF. Waiting for the black A500 case, black keycaps and black tankshell from A1200NET. The A500 is a beast and have ontop a black CDTV extern CD1411 diskdrive. Hooked on a BenQ BL702A VGA 17 inch monitor (PAL High Res Laced 640 x 512 with 16 colors). And with BOSE Companion 2 series III speaker system. Have also three A1200’s which I experimented with.
Nice video Todd! Where did you get your Amiga 600 from? I live in the USA as well, and I'd love to get an A500 or A600, but I think I'd have an easier time getting one from Europe-it's just that prices on eBay are high for Amigas right now.
dave4shmups I bought my A600 about 6 or 7 years ago from the UK. And yeah, your best bet is buying from somewhere in the EU. Even with shipping it will likely cost less than one from the US. Plus all the good stuff is PAL so it makes sense to have the right hardware to start with. As long as your displays support 50Hz, you’ll be better off that way.
Just imagine an alternate history where Atari and Amiga are as big as Apple. I would so prefer a world of multiple full stack ecosystems than the Windows-Android-whatever mismatched jenga dominance we have today.
Wouldn't have happened though - remember the only reason Apple survived was because Jobs had the vision shifted from selling computers to selling crack (per license model on music) to children. Also, assuming that even the AAA Amiga ever made daylight, the Amiga OS was ill suited and the engineers were going to approach Microsoft to get Windows NT running on it.
@@oldtwinsna8347 That would defeat the purpose of controlling and designing the entire experience. The efficiencies and complete user experience of a full stack system and ecosystem just makes so much more sense for the majority of users. Perhaps an east asian company or conglomerate will enter that space. Sony could, Xiaomi seems to be heading that way. Both have their own "selling crack" or ipod entry point. There is market-space for at least two more Apple-like companies with similar market share, each chipping away at the Windriod mess.
With all the aftermarket add-ons that have become available over the years for the A600, I have to say I'm surprised nobody seems to have found a way of adding a numpad to the A600... I wonder, I mean, I'm sure there would be a way of doing it. Sure, it may not be aesthetically pleasing, but it could always be in a box like the numpads for the Atari 2600 (Video Touch Pad Keyboard Controller Numpad) was or like the Atari CX85, and thus be on the end of a cable...
I had an Amiga 500 back circa 1987, it was the only Amiga I owned. I hah an exterxal floppy for it. i was more of a productivity kind of guy, and as far as commercial software for produvtivity went, Amiga was *not* well supported commercially, lots of shareware, but not mucvh commercial support.
Are those speakers Presonus Eris 3.5 ? I've always used traditional 2.1 PC speakers, and love the bass of a good subwoofer. But I recently saw these and have been seriously considering them. (They were boxed so I couldn't listen to them.) They look great and have good reviews. Would you recommend them for someone who is used to the low end bass of a 2.1 setup? How is the bass, the clarity and the overall sound on these? Is the bass deep and punchy enough for me to not miss the sub? Do the controls at the back allow you to turn up the bass and trebble to a noticabley higher level? I realise these are studio monitors with an intentionally flat sound, but I'm not a traditional audiophile and actually prefer boosted bass and trebble. Do you think I would I be happy with these? How do you feel about them? How do they compare to the Mackies you had before?
Even if I struggled to understand what you were saying (you speak too faaaast!) I really enjoyed this video, even if I was an Amiga 1200 user! Hope you'll do a video for It!
I still have a C64, 2 A500s, and a A4000 that still works today, with a 68030 pro accelerator card. I was never a games player and I think that's where commodore made a mistake, OK the C64, 600 and 1200, yes, But when they produced the later 3000, 4000 they should have put more effete on professional software like "Final Writer* a great word processor. don't think the A4000 was ever used to it full potential. Its a great shame. I moved over to mac as that's the closest next best thing, PC,s are just pants.
I had an IDE interface for my A500 that wasn't a "goofy sidecar", but rather a daughterboard sandwiched between the mobo and the CPU chip. Forgot what the brand name on the interface was.
Hello, your display case in the video looks like a widescreen (16:9) but somehow it looks like providing 4:3 (I guess it is better for Amiga) How did you do that? Is that a spec of display?
I bought a 500 new way back in 91, and it had an (ugly?) GVP sidecar with SCSI harddisk and 8mb ram, I always saw the 600 as a step sideways rather than forward with its 68000, it was no better than my 500 with its ECS chipset, the 1200 on the other hand was a step forward with its AGA chipset, though not a great step forward with its under done 68EC020, they should have gone 68030 minimum. I would not have been able to play F/A-18 without a numerical keyboard
I loved my Amiga 500 and then later 500 Plus. But I totally lost interest in the Amiga, when the 600 was released. Reason been is it rendered my very expensive GVP external hard drive useless, as this hard drive used the side expansion port that the Amiga 500 had, but the Amiga 600 didn't have.
There's a hack which allows the not particularly impressive System on a Chip (SOC) in a Playstation Classic to emulate an Amiga. A Raspberry Pi 3 can emulate a 68040 equipped A4000 at 4x speed. So, one of the cheap PCBs being used in the various classic mini game systems being released could be used with the same cheap SOC inside of a reproduction A600 case and produced for very close to or the same price as the C64 Maxi (TheC64) which I have zero interest in.
I went from the VIC-20 to the C64, then the Amiga 1000, a second-hand A500, then an A4000/030. I later got a used A1200 and CD32. Finally, I saw an Amiga 600 on display in an electronics store (Dixons or Currys, for your UK viewers) sitting unloved, and I managed to get it as a "manager's special" for £40. It wasn't complete, but it was still a good buy I thought. Its compact size endeared it to me, but I've barely used it. The A4000/030 remains my favourite Amiga, with the A1000 in second place. Opening my A600 just the other day, I find evidence of leaking caps to the left of the IDE connector, so I'm researching 'recap' videos.
Since 1993 i have my Amiga 1200 and it still works fine. This ist my only and Favoriten Amiga....
Great video and good to see you back :) I really think it depends what you want from an Amiga, for me the A600 is perfect, even with its base 68000 it's an incredibly usable machine so long as you have some extra chip RAM (cheap as chips) and a bit of fast RAM. I use mine for DPaint and Games, it will very happily work on Blitz Basic projects as well as Scala at a pinch. Admittedly I am a very patient person. It's the absolute solid reliability of it in a small package that charms me, and because of that it's coming with me to Japan and is going to be pressed into some animation work :) That and the Amiga 600 I bought in 1993 at the age of ten is still with me and still works.
Dislike is an Atari ST user. Great video !
Thanks brotha! I should do a ST video too lol. "The Atari ST is still a SHIT Amiga in 2020"
Modern Vintage Gamer Dislike is.... I really have no idea why people dislike, Todd is great, the Amiga is great so is this video😁👍🏻
@@RETROCENGO Amiga is dead. I repeat: DEAD in 1994 (in 1990 whit Amiga 3000 IMHO). Unfortunately for all of us. This is classical sample when computer science/hobby became religion. There is nothing a modern computer cannot do infinite times better than the Amiga. It is sad but it is so. My interest in these glorious old machines is historic, but I am baffled by certain expressions about "old times". The Amiga is dead, computer technology is going on.
@@hakudo3162 computer technology is moving "backwards" unfortunaltely. Pc , laptops and phablets gets obsolete and deprecated every 6 months offering little to nothing in the technology field. An Amiga 500 is a masterpiece of brilliant engineering even nowdays. If you want to follow the new technology have in mind that new technology needs to be replaced in 6 to 12 months - call it a defect capacitor , call it a defect chip call it a underpowered processor...And yes this is not happening in the Amiga world even in 2021. Amiga culture and pioneer enginnering is far from dead thankfully for all of us.
@@kpervanidis1145 Sure! A few more years and we could get our Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum left in the attic back into action.
I was a big box guy. I saw the big box units as "damm close to Unix" (in the way Amiga came across, acted + responded) high end graphical workstations long before I saw them as computers. Both the smaller ones also had many charms in many ways.
Commodore's refusal to Sun's proposal about the 3K... boggles the imagination.
When i was waaaay younger, i asked for a Megadrive/Genesis for getting good grades. I got one if these, as it was more "educational". I loved it!
Glad to see you’re back making videos! I’ve got an A1200, A600 and two A500s - and the A600 is my favorite too. Very cute, and doesn’t take up a table.
This video has been extremely helpful in helping me pick an Amiga to try out the platform with. I've managed to pick up a 600 at a local auction and I'm hoping to enjoy it as much as others clearly do!
As a guy who was only able to experience an Amiga *once* in my life through a friend way back in middle school, this type of coverage is a gold mine. Thanks for the info. I look forward to learning more.
Ray Commend Thanks Ray!
I was a A500+ guy, (my 1st Amiga). I skipped the 600 as I had all the sidecar addons for my A500+, scic HD (40Mb), 2 meg fast ram, etc.. I later got a A2000 w/040 and a pc card. I wish I had held on to that equipment. I had so much fun with those computers back in the day.
We never had any expansions for our A500+, but I saw the sidecar ads in magazines and I thought they looked really good, extending the form of the case and giving the humble A500 the potential to become a very serious machine. The only downsides were, as I recall, fairly high prices and of course one needs quite a wide desk to accomodate them.
i use amiga 600 ..1.3 kick and gotek..works.perfectly
It really is. Always was a 1200 guy, but getting a 600 recently and just having it as a little games only machine is perfect.
Just been on my Amiga A600 still an awesome machine even after 25 years and 10 months of ownership. Best computer ever.
Great Video Tod, glad to see you back
Thanks!
Awesome. Welcome back and thanks.
Todd is back! Great video buddy instant 👍🏻 The Amiga600 my first love!
I’m all into the Amiga 500 Plus + ACA500PLUS but the A600 still has a special place in my heart
The Amiga 600 will be awesome ‘FOREVER’...said in the style of Impossible Mission.
YESSSSS!!! Welcome back!
Thanks Nick!!
Nice video, The A600 was also my favourite, have so many great memories of it.
Nice video, Todd. I really enjoyed that. Good to see KEFRENS · Multi Megamix I · in the background.
I'm a big fan of all of Kefrens Multi Megamix music disks. Sometimes I'll just boot one of them up in the background while I'm working on other stuff.
Great video, thanks! I got A600 in 1992 and I still love it. Just had it recapped and bought the Furia and IDE/SD adapter. Previously had a 1 Mb RAM expansion, PCMCIA/CF-adapter and a new internal floppy drive. Now the A600 is going to last me another 30 years!
Wow....instant wave of nostalgia the second the sound started 😍
I still have an amiga 2000 at home. I hope to see if it still works in the future 😃 greating from holland
My Amiga 600 was killed by leaking capacitors. Luckily I had someone around who could fix it.
My favorite Amiga computer was the A3000 ! Very good video please keep on doing those
Great Video - Amiga Forever!!!!
Great video and summary. I had a vanilla 2000 in the day (early 1989). Still have one today ; 68040 + 2MB Chip, but its so big its in storage. I have an A4000 (040) with its own monitor on my study desk, and an (AT) A1200 for games. 27 years later.
Gerard Bakker Nice!! I have a couple A2000’s in storage that I have been meaning to restore for several years now. I need to pull them out.
Great video ! :) thanks for sharing :)
First video in a year...I'm glad I got this notification!
Lots more to come! Thanks for watching!
I'm from the Future. ;)
I have the A630 Rev.3 with 68030/50 MHz, and an FPU 68882FN40/40 MHz, with 64 MB RAM.
Yes, the A600 is still AWESOME.
Welcome back!!
Thanks buddy!
I had, still have a Amiga 2000 with a GVP GForce 68040 running at 33 Mhz. Along with that card was a 1.2GB SCSI hard drive. I used a GVP G-LOCK for overlaying text and graffics on a video using S-Video in and out. Also had a setup on the Amiga to do assemble video editing using my Hi-8 camera and Hi-8 deck. This was in about 92. I have a mod board on the Fat Agnus chip I think gave me more chip ram. I opened it up to look at the battery, I was happy to see there was no corrosion. The rest of the board looks good. I'll probably take the board out to clean. Then look into retro bright for the keyboard. Looking forward to turning it back on. Need to make a image of the HD.
I didn't know much about the Amiga 600; I only own 500, 1000, and 2000 models, and wish I had a 1200. The 600 would be great to have, and I'll grab one if the price is right!
My favorite is the A2000HD which I have owned since the early 1990's. I own all the Amiga Models except the A3000. The Amiga I use most is the A600 which has a Vampire in it and its a pure joy to use but I like the small form factor of it and it fits nicely in the corner of my L Shaped Desk. Now I am not into games but if I play games it will be either on the A600 or the A1200. The reason the A2000HD is my favorite is because its been with me forever and I used it to run a multiline BBS back in the day but also I used it for productivity applications, running Mac System 7 using an AMAX II and not so much for games but if I were to play a game it would either be Battle Chess or Lynx.
I got a 500 just for the nostalgia (I really wanted one as a kid) but the benefits of the A600 did make it a tempting alternative when I was looking for a machine to buy - mainly the hard drive interface and the PCMCIA slot. The PCMCIA slot is a pretty economical way to add good networking hardware to the Amiga (none of that "Plipbox" junk!) - but in the end I really just wanted to go back and get the machine I saw in the shop in 1988.
Thanks for this, I'm an Amiga virgin and you've helped me to see that a 600 is the way to go, hats off to you sir!
it is not, the a 600 was meant to be the A300 and be cheaper than the a500.. they screwed up, made it 50-70 pounds more expensive so they changed the name to 600 and phased out the 500.. and this is in part what killed amiga...
Have two A600s and love them 👍
I remember a moment when I was like 8 years old and someone on a local flea market sold his entire 600 collection along with games, office software, joysticks and a printer for 30 bucks in total.
That was by the late 90's.
The only reason mom couldn't buy it for me was that we had no car with us, so my dreams of owning one got crushed 😢
about 8 years old, not "like", and '90s is written like this, complete air head
I like your camera quality and angles.
Thank you!
I have a similar setup. Except the PCMCIA is occupied by a ethernet adapter, with a fixed IP address (amitcp) and a FTP server constantly running. When I download something on a PC I just push it to the Amiga with TotalCmd built in FTP client. Then new 3.1.4 OS allows the full RAM of the Furia to be available despite using PCMCIA.
Great wee machine. I still love mine.
Great video. The Vampire 600 version 2 and 2.1 have much improved stable socket connections.
I loved my Amiga 600 a great look and size..
I've got to get an Amiga myself, maybe one day
Nice video. Never had an A600, started with an A1000 and did about every mod I could on it then picked up an A3000T. Still miss that old stuff. Run Linux only here at home but might consider finding an A600 for some old time fun. Favorite games Welltris (think I spelled it right) and Fantastic Voyage from the old 1960s movie.
I own 3 amiga500s and they are still in their original boxes..i much preferred the bigger A500 to be honest..all amigas are awesome in my opinion...thanks for the video.
I had the A600 back in the day and loved it, though did envy my friend with the A1200 a little...
I grew up with an Amiga 600
Such an amazing system ❤️
Had them all except the big box amiga's 2000/3000/4000 but started on and 1.2 than 1.3 had a 600 for a few days traded it for a 1200 with a scsi interface... but recently i got a 600 back with a furia rev 2 card cant wait to play some of my fav games.
A600 + Furia is a potent combo!
i had an a600 with built in kickstart rom switcher with 2.0 and 1.3 and you would hold down reset to change it, that sorted out most of the compatibility problems
i'm surprised the games that need the numeric keypad haven't been hacked to use other keys, with all the whdload installers with added bug fixes, trainers and ability to skip intros etc. that people have done
Nice video, Todd. Have to say, after watching you only convinced me further to pick the 500 between those two machines! hah! Those mouse ports would drive me nuts. It made sense to do that on the C64 since 99.9% of C64 users used joysticks, not mice. I think the 600 was being pushed to market with a similar mindset. But holy smoke.. they really should have put the ports on the back. PCMCIA is definitely a nice feature, no doubt. But I think I'll still keep the numpad. Thanks for sharing! Love your stuff.
Yeah, I'm not sure what Commodore was thinking by putting them on the side. I mean, it made sense on the 8bit machines because 99.9% of the time there was never a mouse attached (hello GEOS users!). But on a machine where the mouse is very important and the majority of the population is right handed... I dunno.
Miss my a600 😢
What cable did you use in order to connect a modern day monitor ?
Great vid by the way 👍
Scart cable into an OSSC
I’ve still got my Amiga 500 and 600 but shame about the room they take up however great machine. It was nice to see when I got a NesPi with Retropie on they included the Amiga emulator with games that all auto change the disk and run really well.
What is the street figther version on 0:28?
Amiga 600 was just gorgeous
Nice! Thanks!
I gotta get an amiga 600, kudos Tod.
www.winuae.net/
@@o_Juffo_o Thanks.
they're not bad, you can put all your furia's on it and what not, but sadly at the end of the day, it's not the AGA chipset which most of the coolest stuff needs.
Nice video and the pace is good.
Something I've posed on Amibay, but would love your thoughts on whether my wee a600 with my Furia 020/40 should be treated to a Vampire 600 v2? I am on the wait-list (time unknown) and have a nice machine chugging along doing its thing. If and when my Vampire turn materialises, do I treat myself?
I know this is very subjective, but I only have one physical Amiga and the obligatory FS-UAE, WinUAE, AF, Amikit, but am pining after my AGA 1200T somewhat and would love to use some old AGA titles on the real thing (i know, I should buy an A1200 too! ).
So I guess my real. question is: Does the Vampire, in your opinion, detract from the feel of having a real Amiga, or is it, being an FPGA 68k core, like a lovely modern Amiga that we all really deserve?
I like the A600 form factor for sure, and the new accelerator option make it much more a viable option than it was back in 1991!
Agreed. I can imagine back in the 90's people crapping on this machine because of it's lack of 3rd party hardware support. All that PCMCIA stuff was expensive and accelerators were scarce as hell. But today? Pfft...it's awesome!
@@ToddsNerdCave Right! We honestly thought it was a total waste back then - as expensive as an A500+, not even close to as expandable, and still a 68000. I don't think we were wrong at the time to think it was a silly machine. Now if they had accomplished their mission and made it a $199 computer, it may have been worth it.
@@ToddsNerdCave Biggest issue was no AGA chipset, you literally had no good reason to buy A600 over 1200 really.
Nice. What is the solution if you want to connect it to say a normal modern LCD?
OSSC is the best choice in my opinion. Zero lag and has smooth scrolling.
1994-2005, Amiga 600 was as dead as dinosaur. 2020, A600 is a relevant machine :)
The A600 is a nice AMIGA but not my thing.
The AMIGA is always the A500 Rev6A with
ACE2, Indivision ECS V1, ACA500Plus V1 and ACA1233n-55 IDE Speeder RTC. Is running WB 3.1.4.1 with BestWB 1.3. Have a 128GB CF FFS 4K and in the AUX a 64GB CF. Waiting for the black A500 case, black keycaps and black tankshell from A1200NET. The A500 is a beast and have ontop a black CDTV extern CD1411 diskdrive. Hooked on a BenQ BL702A VGA 17 inch monitor (PAL High Res Laced 640 x 512 with 16 colors). And with BOSE Companion 2 series III speaker system.
Have also three A1200’s which I experimented with.
Nice video Todd! Where did you get your Amiga 600 from? I live in the USA as well, and I'd love to get an A500 or A600, but I think I'd have an easier time getting one from Europe-it's just that prices on eBay are high for Amigas right now.
dave4shmups I bought my A600 about 6 or 7 years ago from the UK. And yeah, your best bet is buying from somewhere in the EU. Even with shipping it will likely cost less than one from the US. Plus all the good stuff is PAL so it makes sense to have the right hardware to start with. As long as your displays support 50Hz, you’ll be better off that way.
@@ToddsNerdCave OK, thanks!
Great video. have you done anything to keys and case? They are so white !
Mark Hall Not that I can remember. Although the case definitely needs further cleaning.
Just imagine an alternate history where Atari and Amiga are as big as Apple. I would so prefer a world of multiple full stack ecosystems than the Windows-Android-whatever mismatched jenga dominance we have today.
Wouldn't have happened though - remember the only reason Apple survived was because Jobs had the vision shifted from selling computers to selling crack (per license model on music) to children. Also, assuming that even the AAA Amiga ever made daylight, the Amiga OS was ill suited and the engineers were going to approach Microsoft to get Windows NT running on it.
@@oldtwinsna8347 That would defeat the purpose of controlling and designing the entire experience. The efficiencies and complete user experience of a full stack system and ecosystem just makes so much more sense for the majority of users. Perhaps an east asian company or conglomerate will enter that space. Sony could, Xiaomi seems to be heading that way. Both have their own "selling crack" or ipod entry point. There is market-space for at least two more Apple-like companies with similar market share, each chipping away at the Windriod mess.
With all the aftermarket add-ons that have become available over the years for the A600, I have to say I'm surprised nobody seems to have found a way of adding a numpad to the A600... I wonder, I mean, I'm sure there would be a way of doing it. Sure, it may not be aesthetically pleasing, but it could always be in a box like the numpads for the Atari 2600 (Video Touch Pad Keyboard Controller Numpad) was or like the Atari CX85, and thus be on the end of a cable...
I had an Amiga 500 back circa 1987, it was the only Amiga I owned. I hah an exterxal floppy for it. i was more of a productivity kind of guy, and as far as commercial software for produvtivity went, Amiga was *not* well supported commercially, lots of shareware, but not mucvh commercial support.
Esp. If coupled with v2 vamp
OMG you got the original shaped lavalamp :) !
Are those speakers Presonus Eris 3.5 ? I've always used traditional 2.1 PC speakers, and love the bass of a good subwoofer. But I recently saw these and have been seriously considering them. (They were boxed so I couldn't listen to them.) They look great and have good reviews. Would you recommend them for someone who is used to the low end bass of a 2.1 setup? How is the bass, the clarity and the overall sound on these? Is the bass deep and punchy enough for me to not miss the sub? Do the controls at the back allow you to turn up the bass and trebble to a noticabley higher level? I realise these are studio monitors with an intentionally flat sound, but I'm not a traditional audiophile and actually prefer boosted bass and trebble. Do you think I would I be happy with these? How do you feel about them? How do they compare to the Mackies you had before?
Yep, they sure are. They are fantastic.
Even if I struggled to understand what you were saying (you speak too faaaast!) I really enjoyed this video, even if I was an Amiga 1200 user! Hope you'll do a video for It!
I still have a C64, 2 A500s, and a A4000 that still works today, with a 68030 pro accelerator card. I was never a games player and I think that's where commodore made a mistake, OK the C64, 600 and 1200, yes, But when they produced the later 3000, 4000 they should have put more effete on professional software like "Final Writer* a great word processor. don't think the A4000 was ever used to it full potential. Its a great shame. I moved over to mac as that's the closest next best thing, PC,s are just pants.
Why didn't they put the 68020 in
I had an IDE interface for my A500 that wasn't a "goofy sidecar", but rather a daughterboard sandwiched between the mobo and the CPU chip. Forgot what the brand name on the interface was.
AdIDE?
@@MixUpTheVideos Bingo! The "Associative Property of Memory"...you only remember when reminded!
Hello, your display case in the video looks like a widescreen (16:9) but somehow it looks like providing 4:3 (I guess it is better for Amiga) How did you do that? Is that a spec of display?
Tolga Yapıcı I use the OSSC to display the Amiga on the lcd monitor. It supports 4:3 displays.
Nice!
I have a 500, two 500plus, a CD32 and a 1200, I have to replace all there batteries for the clocks I hope that they have not Leeked too much.
I have a A500+ I had from new my A500 broke down so I got the A500+ new, but I do have a A1200 with a ACA 1233n its nice.
My fav is the Amiga 2000HD... I had it as a kid nostalja for me
Thank you
The CD32 has a smaller footprint and a smaller motherboard than the A600, so the A600 is the second-smallest Amiga.
Amiga 1200 and Amiga 32 was the kings
I bought a 500 new way back in 91, and it had an (ugly?) GVP sidecar with SCSI harddisk and 8mb ram, I always saw the 600 as a step sideways rather than forward with its 68000, it was no better than my 500 with its ECS chipset, the 1200 on the other hand was a step forward with its AGA chipset, though not a great step forward with its under done 68EC020, they should have gone 68030 minimum. I would not have been able to play F/A-18 without a numerical keyboard
Them some sexy panning shots at the start.
Thanks!
I got an 500 and an 1200 (with some kind of accelerator card inside)
Great Video... Do you miss AGA? or do you consider A500-600-2000-3000 more the golden era?
Suhaib Sufi I don’t really miss AGA. But if I do, I just pull out the 4000.
Red Sector Megademo. Those were the day´s.:)
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I had the memory upgrade, 1.5 meg :P, then later on a hd, i forget te size but i think it was 4 meg :D
The lack of numeric keypad was a pain for some games, it's why I never bought one and just got another 500 Plus before finally having to go to a 1200.
Maybe it is possible to make a frankenstein A550 fitting an A600 board inside an A500 case+kbd?
The REAL Amiga 500 mini
The A600 is definately a nice machine for retro Amiga whdload gaming. No doubt
I prefer the Amiga 500. Still got the good bios.
in 1993 i was prefering the A1200
I loved my Amiga 500 and then later 500 Plus. But I totally lost interest in the Amiga, when the 600 was released. Reason been is it rendered my very expensive GVP external hard drive useless, as this hard drive used the side expansion port that the Amiga 500 had, but the Amiga 600 didn't have.
There's a hack which allows the not particularly impressive System on a Chip (SOC) in a Playstation Classic to emulate an Amiga. A Raspberry Pi 3 can emulate a 68040 equipped A4000 at 4x speed. So, one of the cheap PCBs being used in the various classic mini game systems being released could be used with the same cheap SOC inside of a reproduction A600 case and produced for very close to or the same price as the C64 Maxi (TheC64) which I have zero interest in.
The 600 was not the best Amiga, but it was the sexiest. Belongs on a wall or mantle piece.
we need a new custom amiga system
a600 my second computer after atari 130xe