Amiga : Converting to full ECS

Now that the best Agnus available is installed, we just need the best Denise. Denise is pin compatible, so we won’t need an adapter.

 

Here’s OCS Denise (8362r8):

 

Since I don’t know how this really shuld be done, I just put the tiniest flathead screwdriver i have under the chip, and carefully forced it up. Extreme care should be taken as not to bend the chip’s pins!

And here’s HiRes Denise (8373r4) in her place:

 

And here you can see that she’s located at the upper left portion of the motherboard:

You can even see the edge of the Agnus adapter card in the bottom right corner 🙂

 

If this A500 had a Kickstart 1.4, and a new clock battery on the RAM expansion board, she would now be a fully functional A500+ 🙂