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Re: Newbie help required
« on: August 10, 2006, 05:25:26 PM »
The MegaChip board is exactly what its name implies:  a megabyte of chip RAM.  You'll need a 2MB Fatter Agnus and Super Denise to get the total of 2 megs of chip RAM to work on your system.  Since you have a PAL motherboard, the ECS chips will automatically default to PAL mode.  

The Zorro 2 memory limitation only applies to systems without a 32-bit accelerator card with RAM on board.  On an A1200, for example, you have a 68ec020 with 24-bit addressing.  You can add up to 4 megs of RAM and use PCMCIA network cards and it will work.  If you add 8 megs of RAM the PCMCIA will stop working since its addressing space has been mapped into RAM expansion.

If you get an '030 accelerator for the A1200 that supports Zorro 3 RAM addressing, you can hook up as much memory as your accelerator supports and still use the PCMCIA port since the 32-bit addressing of the accelerator card will fix the address space limitations.

Just be sure that, if you do get a 32-bit accelerator card, use 32-bit memory to get the full speed increase out of your accelerator card.  The Zorro 2 RAM expansion on your motherboard will only be 16-bit.