Agnus


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Picture thanks to Joe Torre

The Agnus is responsible for controlling 25 system DMA channels, the generation of system clocks in some Amiga models and for addressing CHIP RAM. Inside Agnus is a bliiter which is desgned to move blocks of memory at high speed as well as performing logic operations on that memory. The copper is also found in Agnus.

Chip Name Chip Numbers Part Number
Agnus (512K?) 8361 R3
Agnus (512K) 8370
Agnus (1MB?) 8371
Agnus (1MB) 8372A
Agnus (2MB) 8372B
Agnus (2MB) 8375 318069-10
Agnus (2MB) 8375 318069-11