how hard is it to upgrade from ocs to ecs?

[bbond007]

hm, the machine came with 1 meg of ram, so I am guessing it has that part already. I guess its time to quest for super denise then

Super denise is only going to offer 4 color (out of a fixed 64 color palette!) productivity mode (640×480 noninterlaced & requires a multi-sync monitor) and "Super-HiRes" (1280×200 or 1280×256 also limited to 4 colors) that you don't have now. Super denise was obviously C= 's answer to EGA.

I would double-check you have the Fatter Agnus. Just because you have 1mb ram does not guarantee that its configured all as chip and not split between 512k chip / 512k slow.

[bbond007]

If you need a super denise and can't find one... you can use the Indivision ECS.

With a Indivision ECS you can use the super denise modes even with a normal denise WHEN using the VGA output of the Indivision ECS.  

I use it on my A500 and show super denise modes with it.  The normal Amiga RGB output looks wrong but the VGA output works and works better!  I can use nice VGA monitors/lcd and get rid of the 1084!

I would suggest it to anyone!

Totally - a very worthwhile upgrade

But a that point you have a nice 640x400 or 640x512 non-interlaced 16 color mode, so why use those crappy (4 out of 64 color) ECS modes?