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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: mindprober on June 30, 2004, 08:29:43 PM
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Did anyone ever write a piece of software for the classic Amigas that would identify all of the revisions of the installed custom chips? I believe the only thing that came close was Nic Wilson's SysInfo. Most of the other known "system info" programs seem to only concentrate on RAM and ECS/AGA chips and not the buster, gary, dmac, etc. Is there even a way to detect the revisions in software?
Of course, I can just pop my case open and I'd have my answers, but I just closed it up after an upgrade and exposing the A3000D motherboard requires much disassembly. Yeah, I'm a little lazy also...
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Hum,
i seem to recall that there were software `engineer` toolkits, available to those that wanted to do soak test and system ID...
don`t have a link for it though...
Anyone else?
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Have you tried Scout (http://ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/moni/Scout.lha)?
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I was wondering this too...
It would be nice to just take a floppy disk and load it into any Amiga
and all your questions answered.
How are we to know about the A4000's Buster 11? The A1200's 1D1
revision?
When I sent my Amiga for repair to Wizard Developments (now COMPUTE!)
they sent me a sheet of paper with various soak-test diagnostics on to
confirm each component had passed a test.
Maybe there are some programs out there that do rigorous tests on the
hardware that CAN identify specific custom chip revisions etc.
SysInfo 3.24 and SysSpeed 2.6 are what I use, and even SysInfo is
primitve and forces a PAL screen, recognising the '060 as a superfast
'040.
:-D :-D :-)
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http://www.iki.fi/sintonen/sw/WhichAmiga.lha
Includes assembler sourcecode.
PS. The program uses all sorts of evil hacks to do its' job. Expect your system to be unstable after running WhichAmiga.
You have been warned.