Talk:Amiga 500

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Mmmmm, very fond memories of my Amiga 500. Nice work. -- LukeyBoy

  • Support renaming this article as Amiga 500 in the interest of uniformity. Related articles, such as Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000, are not abbreviated or concatenated. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 18:38, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Support — Pixel8 12:56, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Support - Assuming I'm allowed to say anything in the matter, I say rename it. Fred26 15:52, 5 March 2006 (UTC) :)
  • Support I also suggest to rename this article as Amiga 500 in the interest of uniformity. All the related articles, such as Amiga 500+, Amiga 600, Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000, are listed this way. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Garvanit (talk • contribs).
  • Support strongly. The Amiga 500 is simply not referred to as "the A500" anywhere I've ever seen. Look at the incoming links: the majority link to the Amiga 500 redirect. Rename A500 to Amiga 500 asap. Haakon 20:57, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Move completed. Naconkantari e|t||c|m 21:03, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Naconkantari. Haakon 21:05, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A500 release date

Does anyone have any (US based) articles from March to July 1987 about the A500? I have looked through the google groups archive from Jan to July '87, but it doesn't make any specific mention of a release date. The impression I get from the archive is around June. —Pixel8 14:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Odd

It looks like a PC owner wrote the summary. Amigas have had an interrupt system called "IRQs". This is IBM PC and compatibles terminology. Likewise, why mention that there's no Port-mapped I/O? As this is purely an Intel/Zilog phenomenon, why say it? It would be like saying there was no segmented memory or 640KB memory limit - these things are purely IBM PC topics and the fact they're not on other computers is indicative of the other computers not being IBM PCs. Should I say that the Amiga 500 doesn't contain pork because it's not a pork sausage?

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