Amiga 600

Amiga 600
	An Amiga 600 computer
Manufacturer	Commodore
Type	Home computer
Release date	March 1992
Introductory price	£399 (equivalent to £1,040 in 2023); US$499 (equivalent to $1,080 in 2023);
Discontinued	1993
Units sold	193,000 units in Germany
Operating system	AmigaOS 2.05 (up to 3.2 with ROM replacement and 3.9 with CPU upgrade)
CPU	Motorola 68000 @ 7.16 MHz 7.09 MHz (PAL)
Memory	1 MB (80 ns access time) ; (6 MB maximum, more with unofficial expansions)
Predecessor	Amiga 500, Amiga 500 Plus
Related	Amiga 1200

The Amiga 600, also known as the A600, is a home computer introduced in March 1992. It is the final Amiga model based on the Motorola 68000 and the 1990 Amiga Enhanced Chip Set. A redesign of the Amiga 500 Plus, it adds the option of an internal hard disk drive and a PCMCIA port. Lacking a numeric keypad, the A600 is only slightly larger than an IBM PC keyboard, weighing approximately 6 pounds (2.72kg). It shipped with AmigaOS 2.0, which was considered more user-friendly than earlier versions of the operating system.

Like the A500, the A600 was aimed at the lower end of the market. Commodore intended it to revitalize sales of the A500-related line before the introduction of the 32-bit Amiga 1200. 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."^[1] The A600 was originally to have been numbered the A300, positioning it as a lower-budget version of the Amiga 500 Plus.^[2]

An A600HD model was sold with an internal 2.5" ATA hard disk drive of either 20 or 40 MB.

Due to the inclusion of Kickstart 2.05, many software titles made for A1000 or A500 do not work on A600.^{[citation needed]} A program, Relokick, was released (and included with an issue of CU Amiga) which loaded a Kickstart 1.3 ROM image into memory and booted the machine into Kickstart 1.3, allowing most incompatible software to run. Because Relokick itself occupies 512 KB of memory, some titles would not work unless the A600 was fitted with a 1 MB trapdoor memory expansion.

^ Haynie, Dave, "Re: Amiga CPU is similar to Mac CPU", Usenet (comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc). Posted 4 November 2002, article retrieved from Google Groups archive on 9 November 2006.
^ "The Amiga 300". Pure Amiga. July 26, 2021. Retrieved December 5, 2023.

[haynie300-1] Haynie, Dave, "Re: Amiga CPU is similar to Mac CPU", Usenet (comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc). Posted 4 November 2002, article retrieved from Google Groups archive on 9 November 2006.

[2] "The Amiga 300". Pure Amiga. July 26, 2021. Retrieved December 5, 2023.

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