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- From: jeff_w1@sfov1.verifone.com (Jeff Wahaus, CAPS, ATL, x3529)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: What's the diffrence: OCS/ECS?
- Message-ID: <1996Jan1.084829.4706@sfov1.verifone.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 96 08:48:29 -0800
- References: <jvds.03yl@tnet.xs4all.nl>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: VeriFone Inc.
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- In article <jvds.03yl@tnet.xs4all.nl>, jvds@tnet.xs4all.nl (Joost Van Der Sluis) writes:
- > In a message of 15 Dec 95 Micke Hallgren wrote to All:
- >
- > MH> I've got a AMIGA 500 (don't laugh..or cry). The problem is that many
- > MH> games require (hope I spelled it right..) AGA or ECS. So what's the
- > MH> diffrence between ECS and OCS? And how can I get ECS?.... One thing
- > MH> more, how do I know if I have got ECS? The only thing that tells me I
- > MH> have OCS, is the game WORMS.... Or does it requires AGA? It says in the
- > MH> startup that it'll do with ECS. What to to????
- >
- > I don't know the main difference between OCS and ECS, but I do know when you
- > have kickstart 2.0 or higher, you have ECS. ECS can display 1280x512, and it's
- > a bit faster.
- >
- > Anyone who knows more differences, please tell. I was thinking about asking
- > this question as well. Even though I have an A1220.
- >
-
- ECS added the productivity modes. Also, OCS was limited to 512KB of Chip
- RAM where as ECS suports 1MB of Chip RAM.
-
- Most any program that runs under ECS should also run under OCS unless it
- needs more than 512KB of Chip RAM. (many games do though)
-
- -Jeff Wahaus-
- jeff_w1@verifone.com
-
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