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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Could someone please explain OCS vs ECS chipset?
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 07:42:10 GMT
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- Julian Giardinelli (jool@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:
- : I'm slightly confused on the difference between the OCS and ECS
- : chipsets. I have an Amiga 2000 (rev 6.?) with 1 meg Agnus (PAL/NTSC). I
- : think I have a super denise chip but I'm not sure. Where would I look on
- : the motherboard to find out? Would my computer be considered ECS? Any
- : light on the subject appreciated....
-
- Run ShowConfig and it will tell you what type of Denise you have.
-
- ECS is a 1 or 2MB Agnus and a Super Denise.
- OCS is a 512K Agnus and a Denise or EHB Denise.
-
- Without Super Denise, you're still pretty much an OCS machine even if you
- have a 1 or 2MB Agnus
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