Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!msuinfo!convex.cl.msu.edu!jap From: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: WorkBench 2.0 Message-ID: <1991Apr10.164331.15240@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 10 Apr 91 16:43:31 GMT References: Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 24 vidiot.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Eric Rankin) writes: >I'm not sure if Applications is the place for this, but I don't see >anything better, so here goes... >I've been told that 2.0 ROMS were required, I've been told that the 1 Meg >Agnus was required, I've been told that neither one is required--can >someone set me straight here? Simple. You need any amiga. If you are a developer and have some AutoConfig memory (>=.5meg??) you can run 2.0 now. If you are not a developer, you have to wait for the 2.0 roms, and a method for putting 512k roms into a 2000. Before the A3000, amigas were equipped with 256K rom (or in the case of the 1000, 256k special ram). I don't know if any 500's or 2000's come equipped with sockets for 512k rom or not. In any case, it should not be hard to modify a 256Krom machin to accept the full 512k. (Is this problem going to happen again when KickStart 3.0 requires 1 meg of rom?) You don't need any enhanced custom chips. As far as I know 2.0 works with the first revision of the custom chips, all the way up to the latest in the 3000.