In 1987 the Amiga 500 was launched to the UK public. It was basically a more portable version of the Amiga 1000 but featured 512k RAM and could be used through the television instead of just a monitor.

The included operating system was Workbench 1.3 and featured a mouse-controlled, windowed environment that also had real-time multi-tasking. The Amiga 500 was then replaced by the Amiga 500+, which featured 1MB of RAM and a new version of Kickstart (the Boot O/S) and Workbench v2.04.

SPECIFICATIONS

CPU Motorola MC 68000
SPEED 7.14 mHz
RAM 512 KB
ROM 256 KB (DOS 1.2)
SOUND 4 voice 8 bit PCM
GRAPHICS 320 x 256 / 320 x 512 / 640 x 256 / 640 x 512
COLOURS 32 (for 320 x X modes), 16 (for 640 x X modes) among 4096, also 2 Special modes : EHB 64 colors and HAM 4096 colors on static display.
I/O PORTS Centronics, RS232, Mouse, Joystick, RGB, Composite, External Audio, Bus
one 3.5'' disk-drive
PSU External PSU
PRICE £599 (UK, 1988) £369 (UK, 1990)