Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!ccncsu!purdue!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!dog.ee.lbl.gov!lbl.gov!jnmoyne From: jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: WorkBench 2.0 Message-ID: <12008@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Date: 12 Apr 91 00:05:38 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 27 It's not that hard to understand... currently, there are no 2.0 ROMs, so if you want 2.0 you have to load the ROM images from disk to RAM, to do that you'll have to have at least 1 meg of contigus free RAM (i.e. a 1 Meg Amiga is not enough). In it's final release, 2.0 will be in a ROM format, but since the ROMs are bigger than 1.3 ROMs, you'll have to modify slightly your machine (how CBM is gonna do this, nobody knows yet). If you want to run 2.0 on a normal 500-1000-2000, you'll have to sacrifice RAM. If you're ready to loose 512 Ko of your RAM to emulate ROM, it's fine with me (it might be interesting for some machines where 32 bits RAM access would be faster than ROM access tho). As far as having only 512 ko of CHIP ram or the old chipset (same thing), 2.0 doesn't care, you just won't be able to access all the new video-modes (and actually I like much better a PAL interlaced HiRes screen with a flicker-fixer than the productivity mode, pixels look better, only the ol-lores sprite looks like a joke (-:). JNM --- #include JNM: jnmoyne@lbl.gov