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The A600 features Amiga-specific connectors including two DB9M ports for joysticks, mice, and light pens, a standard 25-pin RS-232 serial port and a 25-pin Centronics parallel port. The A600 was the first Amiga model with a built-in RF modulator (RCA), which allowed the A600 to be used with a standard CRT television without the need for a Commodore A520 RF Modulator adaptor. Sound was unchanged from the original Amiga design, namely, 4 DMA-driven 8-bit channels, with two channels for the left speaker and two for the right. At higher resolutions, such as 800×600i, only 4 simultaneous colors can be displayed. Additionally, a 4096-color " HAM" mode can be used at lower resolutions. An extra-half-bright mode offers 64 simultaneous colors by allowing each of the 32 colors in the palette to be dimmed to half brightness. As with the original Amiga chipset, up to 32 colors can be displayed from a 12-bit (4096 color) palette at lower display resolutions. The so-called Super Agnus display chip can drive screen modes varying from 320×200 pixels to 1280×512 pixels, with different frequency sync. The A600 is the last Amiga model to use Commodore's Enhanced Chip Set (ECS), which can address 2 MB of RAM and adds higher resolution display modes. The A600 shipped with a Motorola 68000 CPU, running at 7.09 MHz ( PAL) or 7.16 MHz ( NTSC) and 1 MB "chip" RAM with 80-ns access time. It was also manufactured in the Philippines.
The factory was in Irvine, Scotland, although some later examples were manufactured in Hong Kong. The A600 was the first Amiga model to be manufactured in the UK.
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In comparison to the popular A500 it was considered unexpandable, did not improve on the A500's CPU, was more expensive, and lacked a numeric keypad which some existing software such as F/A-18 Interceptor required. The managing director of Commodore UK, David Pleasance, described the A600 as a "complete and utter screw-up". Roughly one third of games and demos made for A1000 or A500 do not work on A600. Īn A600HD model was sold with an internal 2.5" ATA hard disk drive of either 20 or 40 MB.Īmiga 600's compatibility with earlier Amiga models is rather poor. According to Dave Haynie, the A600 "was supposed to be US$50–60 cheaper than the A500, but it came in at about that much more expensive." The A600 was originally to have been numbered the A300, positioning it as a lower-budget version of the Amiga 500 Plus.
Commodore intended it to revitalize sales of the A500-related line before the introduction of the 32-bit Amiga 1200. Like the A500, the A600 was aimed at the lower end of the market. It shipped with AmigaOS 2.0, which was considered more user-friendly than earlier versions of the operating system.
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Lacking a numeric keypad, the A600 is only slightly larger than an IBM PC keyboard and weighing approximately 6 pounds. A redesign of the Amiga 500 Plus, it adds the option of an internal hard disk drive and a PCMCIA port. It is the final Amiga model based on the Motorola 68000 and the 1990 Amiga Enhanced Chip Set. The Amiga 600, also known as the A600, is a home computer introduced in March 1992. (6 MB Maximum, more with unofficial expansions) AmigaOS 2.05 (up to 3.1 with ROM replacement and 3.9 with CPU upgrade)