Commodore Amiga 4000

The Amiga 4000 brought AGA graphics and faster 68030 or 68040 processors to Commodore’s professional desktop line. Its CPU daughterboard allowed later processor upgrades.

It became the principal high-end platform for late Amiga video, rendering and publishing work.

Notable Features

• Processor daughterboards distinguish 030 and 040 configurations.
• AGA graphics coexist with Zorro III and the Amiga video slot.

Historical Significance

• It became the principal high-end platform for late Amiga video, rendering and publishing work.

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 4000
Manufacturer	Commodore
Launched	Wednesday, January 1, 1992
Discontinued	1994
Country	United States
CPU	Motorola 68040 at 25 MHz or 68EC030 depending on model
Units Sold
Form Factor	Expandable 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 3.0 or 3.1
Expansion / I/O	Zorro III, video slot, CPU slot, IDE and standard Amiga interfaces
Keyboard	Detached keyboard
Storage	Internal IDE hard disk, floppy and expansion storage options
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	Advanced Graphics Architecture
Display	External multisync or television-compatible displays
ROM	Kickstart 3.0 or 3.1 ROM
RAM	2MB Chip RAM plus model-dependent Fast RAM
CPU Speed	25 MHz on A4000/040; 25 MHz 68EC030 on A4000/030