Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) is the name used for the enhanced version of the Amigacomputer's original chipset (OCS). ECS was introduced in 1990 debuting in the Amiga 3000. Amigas produced from 1990 onwards featured a mix of OCS and ECS chips, or even a full Enhanced Chipset. In 1991 ECS was officially introduced to the low end Amigas with the introduction of the Amiga 500+. The last Amiga to use ECS was the Amiga 600. The original Amiga 1000 (1985) with Commodore 1080 monitor The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced home entertainment and productivity machine. ... A Lego RCX Computer is an example of an embedded computer used to control mechanical devices. ... The Commodore Amiga Original Chip Set (OCS) is a chipset used in the earliest Amiga computers, from the 1985 Amiga 1000 onwards. ... This article is about the year. ... The Amiga 3000T, a towerized version of the A3000. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Commodore Amiga 500 Plus, (A500+) is a enhanced version of the original Amiga 500. ... The Amiga 600, also known as the A600 (codenamed June Bug after a B-52s song), was a home computer introduced at the CeBIT show in March 1992. ...
ECS included the improved Super Agnus (with support for 2 MB of CHIP RAM) and Super Denise chips. Other additional features include: Agnus is the name of a range of custom chips that were featured in the Amiga home computer. ... Chip RAM is the name given to RAM in the Amiga computer that could be accessed by the custom chipset as well as the CPU. The custom chipset was able to perform DMA transfers to and from this RAM, and would even lock-out the CPU while doing so. ...
Support for Productivity (640×480 noninterlaced) and SuperHires (1280×200 or 1280×256) display modes, which were however limited to only 4 colors.
Ability of the blitter to copy regions larger than 1024×1024 pixels in one operation.
Ability to display sprites in border regions (outside of any display window where bitplanes are shown).
These features were mostly suited to and used for serious software, rather than games. Features from the Kickstart 2 operating system was occasionally used for later games, and since these two technologies largely overlap, some users overestimate the ECS' significance. It was followed by the AGA chipset. Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) was the name used for the improved graphics chipset of the third generation Amiga computers at the beginning of the 1990s. ...
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