ScuzzBlog: Diaries October 2023 Entry 9th October 2023: Post 1: Amiga 1500 - Lost images. Amiga 1500 - Lost images. A bit late I know but a while back I featured this Amiga 1500 in a blog about backing up the hard disk drive to the emulator. The process was a slow painful session involving using floppy disks. I was successful in making the transfer from Amiga to emulator and now have a working copy safely archived and available to use and reference. The original drive was not mine just to clarify that I am not James. The computer is a permanent feature and used quite regularly. At the time I did not want to struggle with the computer to place on the bench and photograph. I cursed at the time cus search as I might I could not find a set of pictures I knew I had of the machine. As is the case so often, whilst searching old blogs I found the pics. They were lost amongst a whole bag of stuff for 12th February 2016. Today I revive those images so that I can best use them in the future. The only thing that changed is the monitor. Model Range: A1500 A2000 A2000HD A2500/020 A2500/030 A2500UX Released in 1987 as Commodore's first high end expandable machine. Though early models were based around the A1000 design, the later models were built around the A500 chipset. The hard drive version named the A2000HDcame with an A209x SCSI controller and a SCSI hard disk drive. The A2500 version has a processor card added to the A2000HD configuration. The A1500 was aimed primarily at the UK market and was fitted with two floppy drives but no hard disk drive. The A2500UX came with AT&T Unix System V Release 4 operating system instead of AmigaOS, and had a three button mouse, and often with a tape streamer and Ethernet card. Processor 68000 @ 7-28 MHz 68020 @ 7-25 MHz 68030 @ 16-50 MHz 68040 @ 25-40 MHz 68060 @ 50 MHz The A1500 and A2000 have a socketed 68000 @ 7.14 MHz processor on the motherboard and were fitted with an empty processor slot. The A2500 uses a processor card. The A2500/020 came with an A2620 processor card featuring a 68020 and 68881 @ 14 MHz, and the A2500/030 came with an A2630 featuring a 68030 and 68882 @ 25 MHz. Memory up to 2 MB Chip RAM up to 128 MB Fast RAM on processor cards up to 8 MB Fast RAM on Zorro II expansion cards the majority of A2000's have 1 MB RAM soldered to their motherboard. Early models, the 3.x series, have 512 kB Chip RAM on their motherboard and 512 kB Fast RAM on the processor card. The 4.x series have both 512 kB Chip and Fast RAM soldered to the motherboard, whilst the 6.x series have the RAM set up as 1 MB Chip RAM. Chip RAM can be expanded to 2 MB with third party expansions which replace the Agnus chip. 24 bit Fast RAM can be added using Zorro II expansion cards up to 8 MB, and 32 bit Fast RAM using processor cards featuring a 68020 or better. Custom chips Agnus / Fat Agnus - OCS / ECS display controller Denise / Super Denise - OCS / ECS display encoder Paula - audio and I/O controller Gary - system address decoder Buster - DMA arbitrary controller The A2000 OCS or ECS chip set offers the same screen modes as the A500 and A500 Plus: Amiga 1500 - Lost images.

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