THE END of the Amiga A600!

[@uberdude2555]

It's ironic that PCMCIA was almost completely useless back in the day except for a CD-ROM drive, but now it's so handy and tidy solution for transferring files, and for ethernet which I believe is faster than many other solutions.

[@HoldandModify]

Yes! It’s one of those things we got lucky with. A lot of folks used it as ram expansion. Slow but at least something.

[@eijentwun5509]

Um it was pretty darn Handy for me back in the Days, with the VideMaster, PCMCIA ethernet and wireless cards that worked immediately right from a PC (people lied back then about PC parts not working on Amiga).

[@a4000t]

Actually there was 16bit sound cart for it,scsi,cdrom,fast ram cards,video digitizer,etc.

[@uberdude2555]

​@@a4000t I'm taking about the Commodore era when the machine was released until it was officially discontinued, the vast majority who used the PCMCIA slot *then* it was for either one of two things, a CDROM drive, or a controller for a 3.5" hard drive, the PCMCIA memory cards were available back then but they cost a Kings ransom, most users instead opted for a memory card in the trapdoor expansion which was many times cheaper. There are some oddity cards for the PCMCIA, a digitizer card, sound sampler, not sure when these were released, but the Parallel port equivalents were cheaper and much more popular. There was AFAIK never a 16-bit sound card for the PCMCIA slot, even to this day no drivers have been written. The useful everyday stuff we take for granted on the PCMCIA today, CF storage, wireless ethernet, these didn't appear until the late 90's, possibly even the early 2000's.

[@boydpukalo8980]

Oh - my SimonGK built custom A4000 black powder coated sheetmetal case was delivered today for my brand new ACILL A4000 black motherboard. Waiting on Kavanoz to finish building Black daughterboard, ReA4001, and BFG. In 24 hours it went from England to Michigan where it is sitting at my door for when I get home. Impressive UPS delivered that quickly considering the bulk/weight/size.

[@HoldandModify]

Kavanoz does great work!! Enjoy!

[@tlilmiztli]

Great stuff! Love these videos as I cant afford any of that old hardware myself - so emulation and videos are for me :D Congratulations on finishing this project. Fantastic little power horse :)

[@HoldandModify]

Thank you and I’m glad you enjoy. Emulation is very exciting and as you know i leverage it often. I feel so thankful about the real hardware but even more so that we have such robust emulators!

[@d0nKsTaH]

As for that HDMI thingy... You can always use Anti static bag to dress it up against making contact.... Just don't cover it too much like a blanket... don't want to trap heat on it

[@stephenbruce8320]

The one thing the A600 has going for it is its small size. With a few nice toys inside it becomes a very respectable piece of kit. I have one sitting in the useless corner of my L Shaped Desk. Does not take up much space but man does it collect stuff I am working on yea it's a staging ground for my other Amiga Projects but soon it will be cleaned up and ready to run again. Never ever say your done with any Amiga because someone will come out with something, and you're bound to open them up again. I own 3 A600's but one I have to repair and hopefully I will get to it very soon.

[@HoldandModify]

Yeah i know I’ll be opening it again one day. But it’s so nice now, i hope it’s not for awhile. That’s great you have a couple! I enjoyed getting mine up to spec.

[@dls2684]

I was staying in London briefly (6 months or so) around the time of the A600. It felt like an odd duck at the time, hard to explain. I had an A500 and 2000 but my all time votes have to go with the A3000 and A1200. My A1200 is my goto workaday and I now have acquired an heir and a spare (motherboard). The A500’s will always hold a place in everyone’s psyche of that time. Such a revolutionary machine and affordable (relatively speaking). I have such an early one it has the mechanical switches on the keys. Love that thing! Lol… Lusted for the 1000 but alas it was out of my reach then. Sorry, I digress. It’s nice to see the A600 has a niche now and is finding use and appreciation thanks to folks like you and Chris. Nicely done video, cool new intro.

[@HoldandModify]

Thanks for sharing. Love these stories. A3000 is my most loved machine. Yeah the 600 has really been “finding itself” lately. Thanks for watching and thanks for noticing the updated intro! :)

[@JarppaGuru]

3:40 this side down when you accessing from bottom or when it this way xD. it should say this side for trapdoor

[@HoldandModify]

Yes! Heh.

[@giuseppelavecchia775]

Hai fatto bene a installare la CF sull'adattatore fisso,anch'io non tollero che la CF si muove.hai un'A600 fantastico,la configurazione e' ottima!

[@HoldandModify]

Thank you! Yes much better now!

[@cullmaster7361]

Just come over from the Dr Chris Channel (Chris Edwards). For the continuing Saga of your A600 👍🏻

[@HoldandModify]

Awesome, thank you! It was fun filming them!!

[@hessex1899]

I am using one of those industrial "disk on modules" on my '1200. I imagine that it'll work just fine on a 600. I also use one with a short right-angle adapter on my TF1260.

[@HoldandModify]

Yes those work great and are very reliable.

[@timbob9910]

I personally liked the A600, my feeling was that where Commodore went wrong was to release the A500+, had they not done so and instead released the just the A600 at a reduce price point I think the A600 would have made allot more sense. The A600 had many enhancements over the stock A500 and also brought over the fresh Amiga case design that the A1200 would also follow.

[@timvangenechten5258]

I used to like my 500+(and still do). I realy feel its under appriciated. Commodore was just terribly at marketing.

[@Syklonus]

The A600 had some clever and welcome updates for expandability and file transfer. Sadly, they improved almost nothing to help game developers. The Blitter badly needed an H-Flip function, and more PCM sound channels could have been a very welcome addition. The A1200 had better layer and sprite options, but it still wasn't as vast an improvement as it could have been.

[@Acrimonious_Snake]

Great video! Thanks! I feel something very satisfying watching this.

[@HoldandModify]

Glad you’re satisfied and thank you!

[@TheTimeProphet]

I had an A500 and couldn't see the point of the A600. Then the A1200 came out and killed the A600 forever.

[@HoldandModify]

True!

[@alkenstein]

It's nice and small with better portability than any other Amiga and plays non OCS/ECS games as well as any other Amiga. Also it's cute! It's one of those Amigas that got better with age.

[@Boris_Amiga1200]

Very nice Amiga! Respect!

[@zedvee2668]

Love the new intro!

[@HoldandModify]

Thanks! I’m experimenting. Might try to update more often.

[@knghtbrd]

Never had an amiga back in the day … decided the A600 would be the perfect machine for me. I don't need a serious working machine because my work wants a bunch of workstation and server hardware. Had my eye on an A600 for a good price. Then someone released a vampire board and the asking prices went up by about triple. Didn't have it, and couldn't justify it for a games machine if I did. I said nah, I'll go for a Raspberry Pi or minimig … More hardware that's kinda unavailable these days-though that's at least starting to change. If you place a pre-order, you might be waiting many weeks (as opposed to months) but you will get them for what they ought to cost. Looks like you made some basic, smart upgrades to this thing.

[@HoldandModify]

The PiMiga is a great option. For stand alone emulated systems. But yup, you can also roll-your-own as well. We have a lot of options out there.

[@boydpukalo8980]

That something you mentioned is called janky! I would 3D print a mount for the HDMI adapter and keep that ribbon cable entirely inside the case where it belongs. Someday you will forget about it dangling out the back side of the case and rip that ribbon out of the board. Pretty cool seeing crossover / collaboration between your channel and Dr Chris’s. Videos came out the same day too I think. Keep up the good work.

[@HoldandModify]

Thank you and yes you’re right. I was very happy that Dr.Chris was down for this collab vid! He’s super great!

[@drphilxr]

Dan Goswick hand crafted a mount for my A600 RGB2HDMI he converted from the A500 version before there was an A600 pcb...and it mounts where the old RF is. It is not something everyone could do though.

[@HoldandModify]

Hmmm. I’ll look around. Thanks!

[@DavePoo2]

A600❤

[@HoldandModify]

It’s the cute one! (The computer, heheh)

[@RobsonRoverRepair]

I've been wanting an actual amiga for 30 years now. Really feel the 600 is the system for me. What's the fair price for one now?

[@HoldandModify]

$300 to $500. $300 I think is fair especially if it’s not recapped. Most seem to pop up for $400+. Some with add-ons. Others without.

[@panzerdawn]

Hi great video ... where do you get 2mb memory card and the hard disk setup you used please

[@HoldandModify]

you can find them in Ebay but also Amikit, Amiga on the Lake, RetroPassion, there’s multiple sources. of course being that none of this is mainstream products lines. often you must wait for them to be made after order.

[@rawberg_se]

Cool. your Amiga 600 is basically as expanded as my Amiga 1200 with a TF1230. About the same speed. I don't have RGB2HDMI tho', but I do use the TF1230 IDE port which is kind of nice.

[@HoldandModify]

Yeah the TFs IDE is fast!

[@mophus6461]

Well there is A630 rev3 with FPU. Its not sold yet since is closed project. They want to sell old versions first and you will end up with two A630. dubble profit :D

[@HoldandModify]

Haaaaaa of course.

[@f1lupo]

yes No Click is always 1st to install in every Amiga

[@HoldandModify]

REQUIRED. :)

[@Acrimonious_Snake]

Back in the days everyone would love to have gigabytes of RAM, terabytes of HDD space and realtime 3d rendering. But now we feel nostalgic for Amiga wigh 2 megs of RAM. lol 😅

[@HoldandModify]

2MB is huge! Lol!

[@Acrimonious_Snake]

@@HoldandModify My first computer had 166 MHz CPU and 16 megabytes of RAM. And I thought it wasn't enough 😅

[@d0nKsTaH]

The A600 should have had the 2mb of Chip ON the board... With the expansion slot to be used for adding Fast RAM. It also wouldn't have hurt to have the A600 running a 16mhz 68000 or 68010... I think they made it too "lite" but I'm just a simple donkey what do I know?

[@HoldandModify]

Haha. Good points. Donkeys are fun!

[@carm3d]

Oh, a new intro!

[@HoldandModify]

Yes just playing around. I might try and do newer ones more often.

[@carm3d]

@@HoldandModify With Lightwave instancing you can make thousands of Amigas! :D

[@HoldandModify]

@@carm3d a dream come true!

[@brettjns]

Can you add a 1000 and 200 to the stack?

[@HoldandModify]

@@brettjns I don’t have 3D models for those. I do have the A500. As seen in my older intro.

[@filevans]

The A in A600 already stands for Amiga, so you're writing Amiga twice, it's either Commodore A600 OR AMIGA 600

[@HoldandModify]

Hah! True. I always think about that. I think I just like saying Amiga.

[@filevans]

@@HoldandModify so it's *AMIGA 600*

[@MauroSanna]

Best of both world situation, in my opinion, is the A1200. Definitely not the A600.

[@HoldandModify]

A1200 is darn near a perfect Amiga. It has the 600s unique features plus WAY more. Absolutely.

[@DW-indeed]

As a 600 and 4000 owner, I agree 😉

[@JJbm4233]

A600 sucks for WHDload games that map to the number pad, yeah that quite a few.

[@f1lupo]

nice little system for sure but personally I have no need or desire to get one for my man cave…just saying 😉

[@HoldandModify]

Grab a CD32 with a TF and CF. :)

[@doctorsocrates4413]

Seemed a pointless amiga in my opinion..A1200 yes but not this...

[@HoldandModify]

it has its “cute” uses but yes 1200 FTW

[@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes]

The A600 wasnt crap, its just the A1200 was around the corner and it pissed a lot of owners off - A600 owners would not have bought the machine if they knew. Thankfully i went from the Atari 520Ste to the A1200 and it was a buety.

[@HoldandModify]

The a1200 was amazing when it launched. Really surprised me and yes it’s awesome!

[@sidoldboy3442]

there is a A630 -rev 3 board coming with an FPU on board.. search google for "a630-rev3-accelerator"

[@HoldandModify]

Of course…..hahah. I knew it!