>You could really feel the slow performance with 8 and 16 color Workbench screens on the 500.
Until you added FAST RAM (e.g. via lefthand expansion slot), exclusive to the CPU.
The system prefers allocating there unless CHIP is explicitly requested.
Until you added FAST RAM (e.g. via lefthand expansion slot), exclusive to the CPU.
The system prefers allocating there unless CHIP is explicitly requested.
Of course, the extra 512KB made our Amiga that much more useful, and eventually we did the solder-jumper change to make it chip, as our A500 is a rev6 with the 1MB ECS Agnus.
I still have this A500; now it also has 8mb fast on cpu slot, an ECS denise and a 68010.
I also had a 30 meg hard drive on my A500 (Supra, which included the RAM expansion.) It was a pretty decent Amiga setup. I taught myself C on that machine (Lattice / SAS C)