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From: ericb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Eric Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Enhanced Chip Set Availabilty ?
Message-ID: <34542@mango.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 91 21:03:57 GMT
References: <61093.667199110@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca> <1991Feb24.232420.7410@comspec.uucp>
Reply-To: ericb@Atherton.COM (Eric Black)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1991Feb24.232420.7410@comspec.uucp> darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger) writes:
>In article <61093.667199110@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca>, rwm@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca (Russell McOrmond) writes:
>> The new Denise only works under 2.0, so you'll have to wait to get any use out
>> of it until 2.0 is released in ROM.
>> 
> Are you sure that the new Denise will only work under 2.0 or do you mean that
>the new Denise's extra features will only be supported under 2.0. If it is the
>latter, it would be possible to get the new Denise before 2.0 and just not get
>any new features until 2.0.

He means the latter (even if he didn't mean it, that's what he means... :-)
I'm using the new Denise just fine under 1.3 (on my A1000 with Rejuvinator),
as is anyone who runs 1.3 on their 3000.  We just don't have the new video
modes under 1.3.

-Eric

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Eric Black	"Garbage in, Gospel out"
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