| From: | Steve Hodson |
| Date: | 2 Oct 2000 at 17:52:29 |
| Subject: | Re: Is my AGA chipset fried??? |
oruk_amigan@btinternet.com wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> [snip]
>
> I doubt very much you've damaged your AGA chips and turned them into
> ECS ones, or likewise. As you mentioned in Early-Startup's gfx. options
> 'Best Available' appears. If that's there- you have AGA, on an ECS machine
>
> that wouldn't show, and on OCS neither Best Available nor ECS would appear.
>
> Also using ShowConfig in SYS:Tools/ you'll see that it'll report AA Alice or
>
> whatever instead of ECS Denise, which of course no AGA Amiga will probably
>
> ever show (at least if you're not using AmigaUAE on an AGA Amiga to emulate
>
> a ECS/OCS machine ;) for one simple reason:
>
> Denise does not exist on an AGA motherboard! :)
Oddly enough I have a similar problem to the one posted, I figure it`s either
due to:
One of my custom chips dying or
Slight battery acid etching of my a4k mobo.
I can recognize all the custom chips but can only select 16col modes even with
"Best Available"
Steve
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