Welcome to the C=ommodore Cave. In this video I look at a boxed Amiga 600 computer. Thanks for watching. I invite you to subscribe, comment and check out my other commodore vids. See the full list here www.youtube.co...
Great video and so awesome that you showed your Commodore collection but for me it was seeing that your proud owner of the beautiful Commodore 16 computer. I now own one myself after manyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy years of last owning a C16 (which i think my brother went and sold it while i was away working) but i managed to grab another from F/B Marketplace and after repairing a few bits and performing the "64k Upgrade" on it along with adding an internal micro SD card reader. It sits beautiful along side my "TheC64" and my A1200 "FrankinPi" computers.
Great looking A600 you got there - looks brand new. I can see you have The Faery tale Adventure game on the shelf, great game, I completed it myself 4 times on the Amiga, thanks for a great video.
Thanks for commenting. Yes I finished FTA too. Very addictive and took me ages but it was so much fun. Will have to play it again. Alongside are the two Archon games as well. I picked up all 3 in a single ebay auction for under $50Aus a couple of years ago. A great tri set.
Great video as always mate. What I love about the A600 is, other than AGA, it can pretty much to everything an A1200 can do, but because of its history, they're easier to get hold of at reasonable prices. Well worth picking one up or WHDLoad for those that don't have an A1200 or the stomach to pay for one.
@@commodorecave5581 yep, same as the a1200s stock 2 mb is not enough for whdlload or even some original HDD installable games. More ram is a must for either machine imho.
very great looking A600 here! and the fact that its case is not yellowed is really good btw ... 🙂 i have one, which i got in the mid-1990s ... added that extra 1MB RAM in the trapdoor slot ... got an 030 accelerator board + 32MB RAM for it as well ... also have a (VERY ANNOYINGLY NOISY!) IBM 80MB HD which i took off my A1200 and put it inside the A600 and ... and it's a lovely little 'Super-Amiga' which i truly love! 🙂 as for that HD bay with the option of having either the HD or the CF added thereof, i'd personally go with both! and connect both to the same connector for the HD bay ... (that is if it works ... it's worked for my on my A1200 with two HD units installed although one of them is a 3.5" one that i have to keep outside the case ...) this way, i can have the PCMCIA port free for other uses, including but not limited to extra SSD or modem and so on ...
curious thing is, i hated the A600 when it first came out ... but after i realized it can be expanded just as good as an A1200 and much better and more than the good old A500 (which i already owned and used a lot, professionally at the time!) plus its smaller size and lighter weight, then i fell in love with the A600, which also serves as my 'portable' Amiga! 🙂
My first A600 is maxed out with accelerator, ram etc and its so sweet so this one will remain pristine. Well except for a hard disk and 1 and 4 meg ram expansion that it needs to run WHDload and apps.
I have two Original Commodore Amiga's in the loft .. A600 and an A1200, both are boxed and the A600 is the HD edition still with the original 20MB hard drive. The A600 computer has never been opened (nothing has been in the zorro or Expansion slot underneath and still has the original warranty stickers on. A friend of mine in the states has one of the very first A600's that was badged up as an A300, the originals were a direct replacement to the A500+ and didn't have an IDE hard drive socket on board.
Great video as usual. Love your Commodore Cave! The A600 was plagued by two bad choices: 1) to let down a computer that sold great still in 1991; 2) to REMOVE the side expansion slot of the A500, thus banning every expansion a user may have had before. The last one was made to let down GVP and their great market of high quality expansion for the A500. At the helm of all these bad decision, the less than competent Bill Sydnes (ex IBM project manager of the PC Jr, another failed product). Sadly, the A600 was such a big failure, financially and for market share, that Commodore sunk after a year and a bit more.
I maybe in the minority, but I still find the A600 one of the best looking computers out there and would love to see a Kickstarter come along selling an A600 look-alike case with a mechanical keyboard and mounts for Raspberry Pi or Arm board...
Thats actually an excellent idea Brad. I always expected the next would be a reproduced A1200 but the A600 would be awesome. Unfortunately I think its history would still be against it.
It's not a bad machine, it just wasn't the right machine at that juncture in time. It really seems like management fouled things up, because the original 300 idea was something I could really get behind. If executed correctly, meaning a few years earlier in this form-factor and at the right price, a 300 could have taken over as a "first computer/games machine" for most kids - in the same vein as the 64 had been. Costs really should have been the focus in order to get them in as many hands as possible; Hard drives, PCMCIA, and such could have stayed external peripherals for these machine (and standard with the high-end Amigas). Hindsight's 20/20, I guess.
I knew many people hated the A600 but there a couple of things you said I did not know. The cost against an A500 and the cost cutting. Doomed from the beginning then. Out of curiosity is the A600 and A1200 the same board?
I had an a600 I remeber getting an IDE converter cable.removing the HDD tray the jamming a 3.5 IDE HDD in it wrapped in a plastic sheet then it bulginging after I screwed it all down. But hey it had a HDD
Rare find..........and in such great condition! Are you attempted to add a "Jackintosh" Atari ST to the Commodore Cave - as in many ways it was built by ex-Commodore engineers and of course pushed by the father of Commodore, Jack Tramiel?
@@commodorecave5581 :) I don't think you'd have to get much beyond the Atari ST - it is special because Jack Tramiel drove it's creation and it was designed by ex-Commodore staff - and a direct competitor / alternative to the Amiga. In many ways there is more of Commodore in the Atari St than the Amiga - as the ST was created by ex-Commodore staff whereas the Amiga came from Jay Miner and his colleagues - not Commodore people until they were bought out.
Per quanto l'A600 non abbia avuto vita facile ed è lontano dal successo avuto dall'A500,mi piace molto e lo sempre amato,e merita molto di più.quell'A600 viene dall'italia?
It always baffled me that commodore would release a machine with the original 1985 processor… sure, hard drive interface, and new improved chipset, but, why not include the 030 processor, and make it a fast system… the fast 030 and 040 processors were out and could have STOMPED Mac and pc sales… ugh…
