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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Agnus
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Date: 9 Nov 89 19:31:48 GMT
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Someone (Ed ?) save this and put it in the intro posting :

	Walk up to an Amiga. Open a CLI window and type :
	1> Avail

	it prints out a table labled :
	Type	Available	In-Use	Maximum	Largest
	chip				XXXXXXX
	fast
	total

	Check the number where the XXXXXX is above, if it is
	523232 then you have the original agnus, if it is
	significantly more than this (like 1048576) then you
	have a new agnus. 

Other ways to use this information :
	If you plunk down $100 to get the new agnus and when you
	pick up your machine it fails the "Avail test" then you
	know the dealer botched the installation.

	If your machine passes the avail test but has garbage on 
	the screen, or weird arrangements of screen bits. Then either
	the dealer botched the installation or you don't really have
	a new agnus or you are running a Schwab screen hack. If 
	your machine crashes a lot especially when you have several 
	full size CLI windows open then you know the install was 
	botched.


--Chuck McManis
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