WTB: ECS Denise

[murple]

That d_l_p guy has been selling off stuff from that "Commodore-Amiga service man back in the day" for a looooooooooooooong time. Usually with absurd prices. Sometimes when I see his listings with a "Make an offer" button, I'll make a reasonable offer just to let him know he's a fooktard... he was selling some old Ultima game for like $300 so I made an offer of $10. I might offer $50 for that Educator 64.

That killer poke seems to apply to PETs, the Educator 64 is in a PET case, but its just a regular C64 inside. Maybe a bit modified, but, its not a PET.

Anyway...

Is upgrading a non-ECS Denise to the full ECS one really worth it? ECS doesn't seem particularly advanced relative to OCS. I'm just wondering if there's really a worthwhile cost-benefit ratio here.

[murple]

And to get my A2000 to the ECS is priority!

Why is that priority? I thought the main thing that would get you is a bit of a boost in chip RAM... and if you've got a decent accelerator with plenty of RAM on it, what does having a full ECS Agnus get you?

[murple]

Hmmm... I'm skeptical that your missing monitor modes are due to your Agnus chip. I suppose its cheap enough to upgrade it. I don't really see the big deal though. ECS isn't really that different from OCS... not even remotely the improvement AGA is over OCS/ECS.

With the 1200 I have now having a good accelerator with plenty of RAM, an IDE splitter and a flicker fixer, I'm kinda wondering if there's even really a need to keep the 2000 around haha.

The 2630 needs a daughterboard for RAM? Wow, that sucks. Both the accelerators I've had on my 2000 had SIMM slots right on the board.

[murple]

If I decide to sell my 2000s (or even just one of them, main reason I havent is shipping something that big is a pain) I'll send you a PM and see if you want one of my accelerators.