Commodore C128/A500 Power bricks - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Sep 2006

I have always used them interchangeably, but I never bothered to 
check.  The jack fit, I used it.  I *assume* that Commodore would not have 
made the 128 and A500's power supply ports be the same, unless they 
believed the associated power supplies were compatible.  Otherwise it would 
be a product support headache.  It would be a great advantage from a 
repair/supply perspective to be able to use the same supply brick.  That 
said, only Commodore would do something as bone-headed as try to save money 
by using the same power supply jacks/ports with incompatible bricks!
Bill D

...
 Will a C128 power brick be able to handle an Amiga 500?
 It looks to
have a higher rating than the Amiga 600 brick I have (for that
matter, can it drive an A500).

Spent a lot of time up in storage, found a cable to let me hook my
A500 up the the Commodore 2002 monitor I use with the C64, and
*FINALLY* found a pair of Joysticks.  Unfortunately they're Epyx
500JX sticks, and about the only sticks I've used that are worse
might be Commodore's clone of the Atari sticks.  Also dug up two more
C64's (I think one is a C64c, do they say they're a "C" anywhere), a
1541 drive, a bunch of carts (including another Epyx Fastload), some
software, and a printer interface.

I seriously considered bringing the C128 and A500 back (thankfully
found the external drive also today), but decided against the A500
since I wasn't sure about the powersupply and it was getting to hot
to try to get back to the C128.

                 Zane