WTB: ECS Denise

[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?

[hamtronix]

murple wrote:

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?

Well it would get me a FULL ECS MACHINE!! Woo Hoo. Not some half OCS/ECS mutant variant Amiga which apparently I now possess. Oh I got another FD today!

In any case it is a chance to open my case and pull out a chip put another in and hopefully not blow it up. And also it will get those other elusive monitor modes to show up. I can't trust a computer that doesn't show me what I know I should see.

Also I need more RAM. If anyone has a RAM expansion daughterboard for the A2630 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me know! (and maybe the rocket to increase my accelerator...)

Man I love mucking about.

[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.

[hamtronix]

I'm skeptical too but what the hell.

You could sell your 2000 to Doomy for 500.00$ (american dollars)I'm sure he'd jump right on it.

Yeah I had to get rid of my accelerator that plugs into the 68000 pinout the A2630 popped up so what the heck. Its a slot loader so it means more stuff to look at when I open the case. But it cut down my RAM from 40 Megs to 10MB ( 8 MB + 2 MB chip)... That kind of blew.

murple wrote:
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.

[Zac67]

Hires Denise has nothing to do with the amount of chip RAM.
To be able to use ECS modes, an ECS Agnus (>=1 MB chip RAM) is also required.