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- From: swale@mindvox.phantom.com (giddyup)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A2000 Productivity Modes
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 14:30:42 GMT
- Organization: Phantom Access Technologies, Inc. / MindVox
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- Niels Knoop (niels@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de) wrote:
- : 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.
- : --
- You do need the ECS Denise to give the higher (double) scan rate.
- you will also get the 1280 * 400 resolution. The Fat Angus is needed to
- get enough usable chip mem.
-
- John swale@phantom.com
-