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- From: niels@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Niels Knoop)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A2000 Productivity Modes
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 17:59:33 GMT
- Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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- Alexander W. Dorn (awdorn@primenet.com) wrote:
-
- > My Question: Does WB3.1 require the ECS Agnes [...] in order
- > to use Productivity mode
-
- Yes. If your A2000 has only 512 KB of Chip-RAM, you have either
- an A-Board (old Agnus, not upgradable) or an early B-Board
- (Fat Agnus, upgradable by simply replacing the Agnus chip with
- a Big Agnus part (8372A). If it has 1 MB of Chip-RAM it already
- is an ECS machine. I'm not sure whether you need an ECS Denise
- as well because I never tried to use Productivity modes.
-
- > (in the case of the A2000, the MegaChip2000)
-
- No. This is an expensive adaptor board to give the Amiga 2000
- two MB of 16-bit Chip-RAM like an Amiga 600 has. Not worth the
- money IMHO.
-
- > It's not a real big deal, as I have a flicker-fixer also on
- > order, but I am curious.
-
- That's the best solution because you can use normal (faster,
- more colors) screenmodes, maybe don't need a new Agnus chip
- at all and don't risk damaging your VGA monitor.
-
- > I hope to get a graphics board for the machine in the next
- > few months to give me higher resolution/colors/etc, but will
- > the lack of the MegaChip keep me from having compatibility
- > with ECS Programs? (in particular, some of the newer ECS Games?)
-
- Some ECS games need at least 1 MB Chip-RAM, but none of them needs 2.
-
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- | Ciao! /// Niels Knoop /// e-mail:
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