TEMPTED TO BUY the Mini Megi Chip

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I have one for sale right now on eBay. I'd be keeping it if I had an A2000 still. It's a very cool thing to have and one of the better/easier Amiga tweaks you can make. Can never enough too much Chip Ram!  lol

http://cgi.ebay.com/DKB-MegaChip-w-clip-Amiga-500-2000-2MB-Chip-RAM-/300428660174?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item45f2f18dce#ht_500wt_1154

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@Save:  how much to ship to the UK - and obvious question: is this a PAL one ?

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Tom UK

Tis NTSC and I'd do $80 shipped to the U.K. transacted outside of eBay and 'gifted' from PayPal... LMK!

Oh and these work in both NTSC and PAL modes. If you're using an A2000, there is a jumper that'll natively force either standard. Can also be done to A500's also, but you'll have to do a search for your specific mobo mod.

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Do you know of any awesome games that require the 2MB chip ram?  If there are only a few, I may not bother with it.

Worms kicks arse and that requires 2mb Chip IIRC. Umm... there's a small handful that I can't think of at the moment, but yes... if an Amiga game is going to bother taking advantage of another Meg of Chip - you can at least expect more sounds/samples and prettier graphics out of the deal. I mostly just like seeing the extra Meg show up in the Workbench title bar and knowing it's there    lol   IF you did a lot of sound sampling, or other graphics intensive stuff like web surfing - right there are two good reasons to own it.

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If it's the DKB MegaChip, then it doesn't give you an extra MB of RAM, it merely allows the Amiga to address one extra meg you already have as an extra megabyte of chip RAM.  So you'd still have 9MB total.

Huh? That's incorrect. The MegaChip doo-dad from DKB I am selling includes 1mb of RAM onboard and I've had several of these. Never saw the one you're talking about that does not include onboard Ram. That would be queer. If Tone installed the product I am selling, he'd indeed have 10mb of RAM total. Even that larger board, the DKB MegaChip 2000 has its own RAM built in.

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Well, mine is used - but tested. The new one for $80 + $20 shipping (guess?) from Amigakit has a socket in which you need to remove Gary to sneak under vs. simply clipping the lead from the DKB to him.

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Is that the super agnus already installed in the DKB, or does the extra 1mb ram on the board make a regular Agnus a "super agnus".

Yes, the Super Agnus (8375, different from what you have installed) is already on the board. Remove your old Agnus, pop the board into her socket and clip the plug onto pin #36 of Gary and away you go!

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I take it the extra chip ram will make everything seem a lot snappier?  This may definitely come in handy.

One question...I heard somewhere that having this extra 1mb ram conflicts with the compatibility of software out there.  Is that true?

Not any software worth using    Never experienced conflicts myself and yes, 2MB Chip Ram on an Amiga is where it's at!

You *want* the MegaChip board. You want to maximize your Amiga's abilities...  BIN quick before someone beats you to it.  lol

http://cgi.ebay.com/DKB-MegaChip-w-clip-Amiga-500-2000-2MB-Chip-RAM-/300428660174?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item45f2f18dce#ht_500wt_1154

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LMAO!  I'm more than willing to transact this outside of ePay and save the fees  

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I was looking at the Amigakit site and it stated that this Mini Megi goes along great with the Indivision ECS.  In what way are they speaking of?  I assume games.

No, no, no. Like we've all said - there's only a small handful of games that take advantage of the extra RAM. Your Workbench experience is "greatly" enhanced with the extra Chip RAM and some productivity software such as samplers and graphics programs too.

And from Amigakit's perspective, it's logical to assume that someone wishing to invest in ECS and/or ECS Indivision will probably want to upgrade their Chip RAM as well. A3000 was the first computer to use ECS and 2MB Chip Ram... and who doesn't want their computer to be like an A3000?  

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Save2600: You mentioned that its possible for the NTSC version of the mini mega to work on PAL A2000's, how is this possible? Is the jumper you speak off on the A2000 motherboard or the mini mega itself?

Jumper is on the A2000's mobo (JP102). There are no jumpers on the MegaChip. Reading the BBOAH, they make mention that the 8375 Agnus does not "switch" and that they made separate NTSC/PAL versions. Hmm... is that to say that perhaps, you cannot boot natively in one mode or the other? I can verify this tomorrow - but I think something's wrong here. I know for a fact that the 8375 can indeed switch modes through software on the fly. Software such as Degrader for instance.

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My PAL A2000 with NTSC Megichip is working NTSC.
However, using the early startup menu, it is possible to select PAL and then it works PAL until the next reboot.

Oh - are you saying that JP102 is in PAL mode, but the 8375 ignores that and forces NTSC anyway?

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For the European and U.K. members, why are you waiting years for a PAL 8375 when it looks like you could just purchase an A500+ and take it out of there?