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- From: fmlazar@ritz.mordor.com (Frank Lazar)
- Subject: Re: A500 Upgrade
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- Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group
- Message-ID: <fmlazar-1701962322260001@10.0.12.15>
- References: <821828969snz@sinet.demon.co.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 04:22:25 GMT
-
- In article <821828969snz@sinet.demon.co.uk>, John@sinet.demon.co.uk wrote:
-
- > Hi,
- >
- > I have a Rather old A500 with Kickstart 1.3, 512k of Chip Ram and 512k of Fast
- > Ram. I would really like to upgrade to Kickstart 2.05 and Workbench 2.00.
- >
- > If I bought the new Kickstart Chip would I just be able to Whip out the 1.3
- > Chip and Replace it with 2.05?
- >
- > Would there be any problems in doing so?
- >
- > Will most of my existing software still work?
- >
- > How could I make the Machine have 1mb of Chip Ram?
- >
- > Any help will be very much appreciated....Thanks in advance.
- >
- > --
-
- There's what seems to be a great deal in the current Amiga Computing, a
- company is selling A500+ motherboards for a bout $70 US. They're
- supposedly new boards that were left over from the CBM massacre. You can
- get them with 3.1 roms installed for an extra 10 bucks and the 3.1 disks
- for 10 bucks more. They have the full ECS chip set and the 2meg Agnus.
- (they also sell the trapdoor expansion to bring it up to full 2 megs
- chip. Sell your old 1.3 board to someone else who fries theirs and you'll
- be set.
-
-
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