Please read an introduction to Amigas in the Amiga 1000 entry.

The last model of home computer ever released by Commodore Business Machines was the Amiga 4000. Significant upgrades to the video system (AGA and HAM8) gave Amiga users new found resolutions and colors, at the cost of compatibility with the older Amiga ECS and OCS systems.

The "030" models came with a 68EC030 CPU without internal MMU and no FPU-chip. The 4000 desktop also introduced Amiga users (along with the Amiga 1200HD) to the ATAPI/IDE system for the control of hard drives instead of the SCSI controller found in Amiga 3000s. The SCSI controller was re-introduced into the design of the 4000T.

Statistics, features, and A4000/030 resources:

CPU: Motorola 68EC030

• 25 mhz
• Processor slot for expansion.

RAM: 6144 kilobytes

• Expandable to 16 megabytes

ROM: 512 kilobytes

Video: CSG "Lisa & Amber" chip

• Text: 60 X 32 and 80 X 32
• Hires: 320 X 200 through 1280 X 512
• 24 bit color palette (millions of colors)

Sound: CSG "Portia/Paula" chip

• Four voice stereo Sound

Ports: CSG "Portia/Paula" chip

• 25 pin Centronics Parallel port
• 25 pin RS232 Serial port
• Stereo RF Sound plugs
• 9-pin Mouse/Joystick ports (X2)
• 25-pin Amiga Floppy port
• 23-pin Amiga Video port
• External keyboard port
• Internal "Zorro" slots
• External SCSI-2 port (A4000T only)

Keyboard: Full-sized 95 key QWERTY

• 18 key numeric keypad
• 4 direction cursor-pad

Extra hardware:

• Internal 1.44mb 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive
• Internal 200mb hard drive

Resources:

• Boot Issues

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