Upgrades for A500 Rev 5

[APotatoBattery]

Hi all,

A newbie to the Amiga scene.

I an see posts for upgrades to an A500 but I have a Rev 5 and I understand this has some differences and complications(?). I just watched Dr Chris video on upgrading to put in 1MB chip ram.

I am looking for help to know what upgrades I can do with a Rev 5. Can you please help me?

Thank you

[gordanian]

The rev 5 is not as bad as it always sounds. Ive got a rev 5 and a rev 6. You can make any upgrade to it that any other 500 rev can get. Currently right now my rev 5 has a gotek, rgb2hdmi and the pistorm in it. Before the pistorm I used a 68000toide stacked on an 68000to8meg ram expansion. I then removed those when I got the witcher 508i and added a dkb megachip for 2mb of chip mem. When i upgraded it to the current pistorm, I put the witcher in rev 6 500 and the megachip into my 2000. So really the sky is the limit for you rev 5....depending how deep your pockets are I would recap the board and if you have a slot ram expansion with a varta battery on it...get the battery removed ASAP. My old A501 had one on it encapsulated in the metal shield that covers it. Was almost beyond repair.

[McTrinsic]

Absolutely agree on the check for the battery. A recap would be nice.

My personal opinion on expansions:

- ACA500+ if you don’t mind the external expansion. If you later want a better accelerator, you can add an A1200 accelerator. Some people have even added a Blizzard 1260. and you can get expansions via clockport plus a specifically made networking-module.
- ACE2b 2MB ChipRAM expansion
- Indivision ECS for VGA, flickerfixer, scandoubler and some scanline-emulation. Switchable from ECS to OCS. Graffiti emulation.
- HxC or Gotek floppy emulation.
Although with the ACA I nowadays hardly use any floppy at all.

From there you can have a happy life with WHDLoad or start expanding the Amiga even more with, let’s say, an A314.

I’m not affiliated with iComp.