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From: lshaw@walt.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw)
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Subject: Re: 2000 with fatter Agnus, how visible is it ?
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Date: 9 May 90 06:54:18 GMT
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In article <206@parcom.parcom.nl> tom@parcom.nl (Tom van Peer) writes:
>Can anyone please tell me how it is visible from the box that a 2000 contains
>a fatter Agnus ?  I'd hate to buy one and then, after switching it on,
>find out I got *&%$ed with a piece of 'antique'.  Can it be read from a serial
>or something like that ?  Most sales persons here think that you think that
>there is a little thick man inside the machine when you ask about it.
>Thanks in advance.

A really handy little program called ARTM - Amiga real time monitor - will
let you check all kinds of things like that.  Just click the "hardware"
gadget to see which agnus (and processor and Denise) is installed.
It is available on Fred Fish disk #327.  I believe there is also a program on
the NewTek DemoReel 3 disk which checks your Agnus, but I don't know whether
they want people distributing it alone.

All of this, of course, is assuming you can run software on the machine you're
looking at.
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"The machine minded material man                    Logan Shaw
 desperately dreams of a brand new sedan.           lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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 from a toy that will race then rust in the rain?" - elim Hall, Things Break