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- From: wirth@garfield.igd.fhg.de (Hanno Wirth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Which new chips are suitable for A2000-A ?
- Message-ID: <1397@igd.fhg.de>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 06:44:03 GMT
- References: <2294.2a66979a@decus.ch>
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- In article <2294.2a66979a@decus.ch>, farine@decus.ch writes:
- |> This may be a FAQ. I tried in vain to find solid answers to these trivials
- |> questions in the various newsgroups. The only remaining Amiga dealer I found
- |> in Berne, Switzerland, was of no help too. So here my questions:
- |>
- |> What are the upgrade possibilities for an Amiga 2000 Model _A_?
- |>
- |> 1. Can Kickstart 2.04 be installed? Just a replacement?
-
- Kickstart 2.04 definetely can be installed. There's a jumper wire on the Kick-
- start ROM which is only of use in those old A 2000 Amigas. Go and get one!
-
- |>
- |> 2. Can the new Agnus and Denise be installed? Just a replacement?
-
- The new Agnus can't be installed as the Agnus of the A 2000 A is partly done
- in logic on the motherboard which has been incorporated into the Agnus since
- the A2000 rev. 4.1. The new Agnus chip is mounted in another sort of socket,
- too. As for the Denise, I don't know, but it shure will be of little use without
- the ECS Agnus.
-
- |>
- |> 3. Can the ECS Mode be used?
-
- Nope, because of the missing ECS Agnus.
-
- |>
- |> 4. Are there problems caused by these upgrades (besides the well known
- |> software incompatibilities when upgrading from KS 1.3 to 2.04)?
-
- Well, there shouldn't be any... :-) But you never know.
-
- |>
- |> It would be nice if somebody could post some kind of matrix with the Amiga
- |> models (A1000, A2000-A, A2000-B, etc) and the upgrade possibilities (possible-
- |> not possible or problematic).
- |>
- |> --
- |> Jean-Pierre Farine
- |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> e-mail: farine@decus.ch
- |> x.400: c=ch,admd=arcom,o=grd,s=farine
- |> FAX: +41 31 67 61 21 Phone: +41 31 67 61 10 / 13
- |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Greetings,
- Hanno
-
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