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Amiga 4000

A4000/040 · 1992–1994 · desktop

Specifications

Cpu: Motorola 68040 or 68LC040, 25 MHz (on the removable A3640 accelerator card)
Gpu: Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) custom chipset
Ram: max: 18 MB on-board (2 MB Chip plus 16 MB Fast via SIMMs); up to 128 MB via processor card, or 1 GB via Zorro III expansion cards · base: 2 MB Chip RAM plus 4 MB or 6 MB Fast RAM on the motherboard (varied by revision)
Ports: 4x Zorro III expansion slots · 2x video slots · Internal IDE and SCSI (SCSI on some revisions) · Serial · Parallel · 2x DB-9 joystick/mouse ports · RGB video out
Display: AGA chipset: up to 256 colors on screen (16.8 million palette), HAM8 mode for up to 262,144 colors
Storage: base: 3.5" high-density floppy drive, plus internal IDE hard disk (capacity varied by configuration) · options: SCSI hard disk or CD-ROM via Zorro III expansion card
Release Price: $3,700

Variants

Revisions

A4000/030A4000/0301993 budget configuration with a Motorola 68EC030 at 25 MHz in place of the 68040, otherwise the same case and AGA chipset.

Upgrade paths

CPU

Third-party accelerator cards up to 68060 at 50 MHz via the A3640 processor slot · The A3640 CPU card is a modular daughterboard, well documented in the Amiga community.

MODERATE

RAM

128 MB via processor card, up to 1 GB via Zorro III expansion cards · On-board SIMM sockets take Fast RAM directly; larger amounts require Zorro III memory boards.

MODERATE

storage

Internal IDE or SCSI hard disk, CD-ROM via Zorro III controller card · Full-size desktop case has room for multiple internal drives.

EASY