09 April 2010, 10:32 | #1 |
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ECS and OCS
I've wondered for a long time... in what way is the ECS actually 'enhanced' relative to the OCS?
Were there any games which took advantage of this improvement (i.e. would run on an A500+ or A600, but not a 1MB A500)? |
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A few games took advantage of the 60hz mode, lemmings if you pressed one of the keys, and more annoyingly bomberman which didnt give you a choice, problem been my tv when i was kid couldn't support it.
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Wasn't there some which required 1MB Chip so not running on 0.5+0.5 MB A500?
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The Red Sector GGS Cractro - The logo was RED on A500 but changed colours on A500+ was this to do with ECS.
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But games that supported ECS (64 colours) would be games that did not need rapid screen updates because of the standard 68k cpu so non arcade games i.e Black Crypt Just saw the EHB is not an ECS mode, just some A1000 does not support it. |
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What's 11 years on a site which honors computer systems that are easily 30-40 years old
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Nope, just the usual 1 meg. Last edited by SquawkBox; 27 November 2021 at 18:10. |
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Hare Raising Havoc needed 1MB chipram on the Amiga 500 if I remember correctly?
But other from that, it was OCS and kick 1.3, but needed to be installed on a harddisk. |
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Rise of the Robots (:P) ECS version requires 1MB chip and on the packaging it specifically says Amiga 500+/600/1500/2000/3000. The floppy disks are labeled for "Amiga 600".
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some games in floppy disk required kickstart 1.3, but after installing on hdd with their internal installer and agreed with manual, they required kick 2.x). I found some of that games, but now i not remember what games.
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Technically some early Amiga models (Amiga later called A1000) use ICS Denise where EHB is not implemented, CBM quickly introduced OCS Denise and it was possible to swap ICS Denise with OCS Denise)
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