Commodore Amiga 2500

The Amiga 2500 was a factory-accelerated A2000 configuration supplied with a 68020 or 68030 processor card and hard disk. It offered workstation performance while preserving A2000 expansion.

It formalised the common practice of turning an A2000 into a higher-performance graphics and publishing workstation.

Notable Features

• The exact accelerator and hard-disk controller varied during production.
• The motherboard 68000 remains present beneath the processor-card configuration.

Historical Significance

• It formalised the common practice of turning an A2000 into a higher-performance graphics and publishing workstation.

Collector’s Notes

• Chipset and motherboard revision, Kickstart ROM, RAM expansion, accelerator cards and original keyboard or mouse should be documented.
• Memory, storage, displays and expansion hardware should be documented because configurations often changed during a system’s working life.

Specifications

Technical Information
Name	Commodore Amiga 2500
Manufacturer	Commodore
Launched	Friday, January 1, 1988
Discontinued	1991
Country	United States
CPU	Motorola 68020 or 68030 accelerator plus motherboard 68000
Units Sold
Form Factor	Accelerated desktop workstation
Power	Internal or external mains supply according to model
Networking	Serial, parallel, MIDI and third-party Ethernet or networking options according to model
Operating System	AmigaOS 1.3 or later
Expansion / I/O	A2000 expansion plus installed accelerator and hard-disk controller
Keyboard	Detached keyboard
Storage	Internal floppy and factory hard disk/controller configuration
Sound	Paula four-channel PCM stereo
Colours	Up to 32 colours normally, 64 in EHB and 4096 in HAM on OCS/ECS; AGA models support up to 256 indexed colours and HAM8 from 24-bit palettes
Graphics	OCS/ECS according to motherboard revision
Display	External RGB or composite monitor
ROM	Kickstart ROM
RAM	Model-dependent Fast RAM plus A2000 Chip RAM
CPU Speed	Accelerator-dependent, commonly 14–25 MHz