Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!atronx!rwm
From: rwm@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca (Russell McOrmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Updating the A2000
Message-ID: <61673.667702387@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca>
Date: Wed Feb 27 18:53:07 1991
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
In-Reply-To: darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger)

In a message posted on 24 Feb 91 01:24:11 GMT,
darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger) wrote:
DG>In article <1991Feb21.223614.8025@kcbbs>, James_Mitchell@kcbbs.gen.nz (James Mitchell) writes:
DG>> I've got an A2000, bought around 1987, no idea what revision the motherboard 
DG>> might be...
DG>> 
DG>> I've taken this to my dealer to get the new Agnus & Denise chips installed, 
DG>> but was told that the motherboard wouldn't accept them - it was too 
DG>> old (wrong version *8(   )
DG>
DG> This does not seem right to me. I have installed at least 30 of the newer, one

There is, of course, one possibility, and that is that it is a German motherboard,
and not the north american one.  In this case, the new 1M (Or any FAT agnus 
for that matter) would not fit.  And, as we know, the new Denise will not
work without the new Agnus, so basically the prospects are impossible.

  2.0 will work fine on this system, though.. You just will not be able to use
the new Agnus, or the new Denise.


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