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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: ECS chips????
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Date: 21 Dec 90 19:26:18 GMT
References: <1990Dec21.001727.20190@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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In article <1990Dec21.001727.20190@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> vac253v@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Richard Jones) writes:
>I have seen a few specs on the ecs floating around this newsgroup, but I would  like to get it all in one place. Just a few q's....
>
>
>1) Fatter agnus. I know I have one. I know it allows 1 Meg ChipRam.
>Anything else?

Bigger blits, up from 1K by 1K to 32K by 32K pixels.
New DMA timing parameters to match the new Denise resolutions.

>2) ECS Paula. what's it do?

No such chip.  Paula is unchanged.

>3) ECS Gary. does it exist. what's it do?

Again, no such chip.

>4) ECS Denise. what's it do?

New Genlock/transparency modes
Productivity mode (35ns pixel mode)
Fully programmable horizontal and vertical resolutions
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