![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t know if it’s correct or not but you can check which chipset your Amiga uses with a tool like WhichAmiga. The information in the corner of your Workbench screen isn’t a standard feature in the OS, it’s probably added by Scalos. This way you can have both KS 1.3 and 3.1 plugged in. You can also use a Kickstart ROM Switcher Board. ![]() As you know the vintage Amiga games are better then the newer ones. The reason for all of these limitations are basically limited bandwidth, and running in higher resolutions with max colors can also feel quite slow.Īll of this is quite easy to check, the Screen Mode prefs won’t let you choose more colors than the chipset supports for that mode. Hi nahoo7, If you mainly want to use your Amiga 2000 computer for playing vintage games, then yes, remove the KS 3.1 ROM and replace it with a KS 1.3 ROM. You can choose 'Snapshot' from the 'Window'-menu to keep Workbench in Backdrop mode even after. Turning off the backdrop option is especially useful when a large window is obscuring the drive-icon you want to get to. They were only available with up to 4 colors on ECS. commodore-amiga-operating-systems-workbench Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4. The aforementioned 'Backdrop'-option is available via the Workbench-menu (first item) and can also be toggled by pressing Amiga-B. The ECS chipset also added some new flicker free VGA compatible screen modes like Multiscan in 640x480 at 60 Hz and Euro 72 with 640x400 at 72 Hz (all of them could be doubled in height with interlace). Or the other special mode, HAM (Hold-And-Modify), that gives 4096 colors with some quite noticeable limitations. In low res there’s also the special EHB (extra half bright) that adds another half as bright shade to all of the 32 colors chosen, for a total of 64. To get more colors you need to run in low res, where up to 32 colors are possible. 10 SETKEYBOARD only changes the keyboard layout for the current console (unlike SETMAP from older AmigaOS versions, which changes the layout globally), hence running SETKEYBOARD from s/startup-sequence won't affect other shells than the startup shell itself. In high resolution, with or without interlace, 16 colors is the maximum supported. The CDTV II that you link to was never released though so that's probably not what you have unless you own a prototype.īut even if you have the full ECS chipset it didn’t increase the amount of colors in the PAL/NTSC compatible low and high resolution modes. It could also be upgraded to ECS by the user. Early models of the CDTV had OCS chips and later ones could have a mix of OCS and ECS, and some late models could have the full ECS chipset. ![]()
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