Retro Computing

General The Amiga 1000 was the first computer in a series of very powerful and successful machines of the mid 1980s until mid 1990s from Commodore! When the product was released in July, 1985 it was only called "Amiga" not before other models like the Amiga 500, 2000 were introduced, Commodore added the additional 1000 to distinguish between the others. Different Logo This short-lived logo was only used on the Amiga 1000. Amiga check-mark Logo Technical information Chip RAM Originally shipped to developers with 128 KB RAM with an option to extend it to 256 KB. End users got already the 256 KB version with the possibility to upgrade to 512 KB. Commodore Amiga 1000 with A1050 RAM upgrade (silver box) Maximum extendable to 8.5 MB total RAM (512KB Chip and 8MB Fast RAM) Chip RAM: Chipset (Agnus) can only access Chip RAM not Fast RAM Fast RAM: not accessable by Agnus chip but CPU CPU Motorola 68000 with 7.09379 MHz (PAL) or 7.15909 MHz (NTSC