kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) (06/11/88)
[ "Send lawyers, guns, and money ..." ] From a posting on our internal Amiga Conference, Michael Robinson posts the following [note carefully the distinction made between the A2000 and B2000]: > Fatter-Agnus Real Soon, SuperHiRes Not Yet... > > << The following from MICROTIMES 7/88, p132, by Matthew Leeds. >> > > "By the time you read this, Commodore will have begun to supply > developers with limited numbers of the new Fatter Agnus chip. This > expands A500 and US Amiga 2000's (B2000's) to a full megabyte of CHIP > RAM. The upgrade requires modifications to the motherboard of each > machine, and although it can be performed by anyone with a moderate > amount of experience in such things, it most likely will be considered a > dealer upgrade when it is finally offered to end users later this year. > The Fatter Agnus upgrade will likely include a new Kickstart ROM V1.3. > > "At a later date a complete set of chips called the Enhanced Chip Set > (ECS) will be offered. This chip set will include the Fatter Agnus, a > new Denise, and a new Gary. The ECS will add in addition to the one > megabyte of CHIP RAM a new display mode, Superhires. Superhires provides > a 640x400 non-interlaced display in four colors. You will need a monitor > that can handle a 31.5 MHz output such as a multi-sync monitor. > Additional new features will include larger blits, the capability of > adding a co-processor to the blitter, and other graphics improvements. > Along with the ECS will come a new operating system, V1.4." > > =========== > > It is clear from the article that the Amiga 1000 and A2000 models will > NOT support the new hardware. > > The article does not say which models will support the entire ECS, but > one is led to believe that both the 500 and the B2000 will carry it. (I > wonder where you would find enough room to put a "coprocessor for the > Blitter" in a 500 box, but that's a hardware problem.) > > The article gives no technical information about the Superhires mode, or > about the multisync requirements. Nor does it hint at what sort of OEM > multisync monitor Commodore will sell to go with the new chips. But the > rumor mill has already leaked quite a bit of information on both topics. > > /mr/ MicroTimes is a Bay Area (elsewhere ?) freebie that comes out about every couple weeks, and has various syndicated columns, etc. /kim -- UUCP: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ihnp4,uunet,oliveb,cbosgd,ames}!amdahl!kim DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 CIS: 76535,25