Editing Amiga 2000 (section)

==Features==
[[File:Commodore Amiga 2000 rev. 6.2 , case with lid removed.jpg|thumb|Inside of the Amiga 2000 (hardware revision 6.2). The third and fourth slots from the left are bridge slots, with Zorro II connectors inline with ISA connectors.]]
[[File:Amiga 2000 loading Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 from floppy disk.flac|thumb|Recording of an Amiga 2000 loading a game from disk]]

Aimed at the high-end market, the original Europe-only model adds a [[Amiga Zorro II|Zorro II]] backplane, implemented in programmable logic, to the custom Amiga chipset used in the [[Amiga 1000]]. Later improved models have redesigned hardware using the more highly integrated [[Amiga 500]] chipset, with the addition of a gate-array called "[[Amiga custom chips#Buster|Buster]]", which integrates the [[Amiga custom chips#Buster|Zorro subsystem]].<ref name="specs">{{cite web |url=http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/amiga/amiga-commodore/Amiga_A500_A2000_Technical_Reference_Manual_1987.pdf |last=Finkel |first=Steve |title=Commodore Amiga A500/A2000 Technical Reference Manual |publisher=Commodore-Amiga |date=1987 |access-date=August 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120613032004/http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/amiga/amiga-commodore/Amiga_A500_A2000_Technical_Reference_Manual_1987.pdf |archive-date=June 13, 2012 }}</ref> This also enables hand-off of the system control to a coprocessor slot device, and implements the full video slot for add-on video devices.

Like the earlier Amiga 1000 and most [[IBM PC compatible]]s of the era (but unlike the [[Amiga 500]]), the A2000 comes in a desktop case with a separate keyboard. The case is taller than the A1000 to accommodate expansion cards, two 3.5" and one 5.25" [[drive bays]]. The A2000's case lacks the "keyboard garage" of the Amiga 1000 but has space for five Zorro II expansion slots, two 16-bit and two 8-bit [[Industry Standard Architecture|ISA]] slots, a [[central processing unit|CPU]] upgrade slot and a video slot. Unlike the A1000, the A2000's motherboard includes a battery-backed real-time clock.<ref name="a2000_intro">{{cite web |url=http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/amiga/amiga-commodore/Amiga_2000_Introduction.pdf |title=Introduction to the Commodore Amiga 2000 |publisher=Commodore-Amiga |date=1987 |access-date=August 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120613032141/http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/amiga/amiga-commodore/Amiga_2000_Introduction.pdf |archive-date=June 13, 2012 }}</ref>

The Amiga 2000 offers graphics capabilities exceeded among its contemporaries only by the [[Macintosh II]], which sold for about twice the price of a comparably-outfitted Amiga 2000 additionally equipped with the [[IBM PC Compatible]] bridgeboard and 5.25" floppy disk drive (which was important for real-world interoperability at this time).<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/stream/info-magazine-17/Info_Issue_17_1987_Nov_Dec#page/n61/mode/2up |title=Top of the line systems |magazine=Info Magazine |issue=17 |date=November 1987 |access-date=May 30, 2013 |page=62 }}</ref> Also like the A1000, the A2000 was sold only by specialty computer dealers. It was originally announced at a price of {{nowrap|1495 USD}}.<ref name="im87">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/stream/info-magazine-14/Info_Issue_14_1987_Spring_Summer#page/n129/mode/2up|title=Amiga's 2 new machines |magazine=Info Magazine |issue=14 |pages=10–14,128–130 |date=May 1987 }}</ref>