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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Fat AGNUS
Keywords: sysinfo, brenda
Message-ID: <1990Dec27.112617.6596@ericsson.se>
Date: 27 Dec 90 11:26:17 GMT
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In article <0TP^~_*@rpi.edu> kengo@rpi.edu (Kenneth Goldenberg) writes:
>anlhille@rose.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
>>dsg@cci632.UUCP (David Greenberg) writes...
>>| 
>>|	Does any one know how to figure out which agnus chip is installed 
>>|in the 2000? Is there a program???? or do you have to open up the machine?
>>
>>Yeah! I know I've got  Fatter Agnus in my 2500, but I have no clue whatsoever
>>as to what's in my 500. Could someone (At C=, maybe?!) write or point us to a
>>program that can determine which chips we've got?
>
>I didn't think this was of general interest, but if anyone cares, there is
>a program called sysinfo by Nic Wilson.  I found it on GEnie, and it seems
>to have appeared in the Sep 1990 Jumpdisk.  It gives some numbers about
>your system (Mhz etc) and gives some comparisons to other "stock" Amigas
>(500 w/ 512k, 2500/030 3000 etc)  It tells you what you have in the way of
>custom chips.  I dl'ed it 'cause it's cute, but assuming you have at least
>a meg, you could just type avail from the cli to see how much chip mem you
>have.  If anyone wants, I'll mail it, and if it's that major a thing, maybe
>it'll wind up on the New Xanth (Sorry, but I can't seem to remember that
>warped alphabet of theirs {thank god for hostaliases})
>

There may be a problem with those 500's that have 1Meg Agnus, but the
jumpers on the MB are factory set only to use 512 K chip, since the
machine doesn't have more than 512 K. Even if you install memory
expansion (like a A501), you will not get more chip memory if you
don't modify the MB. Which you should not do...

I don't know if another program can detect which Agnus you have, but
avail is no sure way.

Tommy Petersson
etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se