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- From: tww2568@vms2.tamu.edu (Tom D Tek 7BvO)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Does OCS support 64 color EHB mode?
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 18:01 CST
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- References: <krisley.821287054@pamsdialup.math.ncsu.edu> <wfblanDL5swC.K59@netcom.com> <4dc70q$t70@reuter.cse.ogi.edu>
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- In article <4dc70q$t70@reuter.cse.ogi.edu>, leneis@blue.cse.ogi.edu (Tony Leneis) writes...
- >In article <wfblanDL5swC.K59@netcom.com>, Rob Bamford wrote:
- >>The EHB Mode is a mode inherent in the ECS (Super) Denise chip. The original
- >>OCS Denise chip did NOT support it. Now, if you also would need the Fatter
- >>Agnus (1MB) chip (Also ECS) for EHB mode, I don't think so.
- >
- > Not true. I had a stock A1000 that supported EHB. On the other hand,
- >I knew some people who had A1000's that didn't support EHB. As I recall,
- >there was an article in one of the Amiga rags (AmigaWorld?) at the time that
- >explained which A1000's had EHB and which ones didn't. (I think the article
- >appeared just before the A2000's were released.)
-
- Simply put... If you have a Rev7 Denise.. you DO NOT have EHB.
- if you have a Rev8 or ECS denise.. then you DO have EHB...
-
- >-Tony
- >--
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- Tom D Tek 7Bu)
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