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Unboxing my Commodore Amiga 500
Unboxing my Amiga 500. Everything shown, from the box down to the plastic bags and bubble wrap is what originally came with it when I bought it in 1991. The only exception being the PSU's bubble wrap which is new.
REM You can also watch this in High Definition on my YT channel
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REM *** User's Memories ***
Although the Amiga 500 was released in 1987 as an affordable option compared to the original Amiga 1000 and the Amiga 2000, it still was a very expensive computer!
In the 90s there was a small price drop, so I finally managed to get one .
All the A500s I had used until then had a red power and a green drive led. Mine on the other hand, had a green power and an orange drive led.
In the computer magazine I was buying at the time, I read that this meant that it's one of the latest A500s featuring the new Agnus chip capable of addressing 1MB of Chip RAM for graphics and sound, PAL/NTSC switching, etc.
In deed, mine has the 8372A.
I was initially disappointed when I found out that Amiga BASIC was not included with the Extras 1.3.3 disk (it was discontinued due to instability on faster processors).
Fortunately, a friend of mine who had an older A500 and didn't care about programming, gave me a copy of his Extras disk as well as his Amiga BASIC manual (the one shown in the video), so that I could copy BASIC over to my disk and start programming right away.
REM *** Contents ***
00:00 Introduction
00:18 Unboxing
05:33 Amiga 500 Close-up
06:20 Manuals
07:33 Computer Setup and Connecting Peripherals
09:12 Power-on and Booting the OS
09:43 Amiga BASIC
10:57 Ending
REM *** MORE ON THIS CHANNEL ***
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REM *** Unboxing Videos ***
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lNmaj7owmC5O_9dNiQiOmb_OPff1Z4z
REM *** Internet of the past ***
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lNmaj7owmBEMQU7O-iUlciao25Z9NXS
/playlist?list=PL4lNmaj7owmC5O_9dNiQiOmb_OPff1Z4z
REM *** Games ***
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lNmaj7owmBmkauamTC5x_l0Iy53wbfm
REM *** Retro Tips and Tutorials ***
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lNmaj7owmCDFYi3eqxaXtbqC2l1RT64
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