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Introduction
Welcome to the Commodore Amiga A500+. The first replacement of the A500 Amiga.
It was affordable and easy to use. It had a wide range of software, in particular, games
which Jay Minor, the creator of the Amiga, had designed it for.
The Amiga A500+ is based on the Motorola 68000 7.14MHz Processor with 1MbRAM,
a single 880K floppy drive with support for three more floppy drives and a Custom
Chipset that provides the Sound and Graphics.
The new A500 Plus now supports the new Kickstart 2.0 and Workbench 2.0 upgrade
from Kickstart/Workbench 1.3 and the new Enhanced Chipset (ESC) with up to 2MB of
Chip RAM supported, and new high resolutions support for Productivity modes (640 x
470), Super HiRes (1280 x 200/256) and interlace modes. The Blitter can also now
copy regions bigger than 1024x10124 pixels in one operation.
The Amiga runs the Operating System called Amiga OS which consists of the Kickstart
ROM which contains some essential libraries and devices needed to load Workbench
which is the desktop:
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