zach@mic.UUCP (Zach Steele) (07/20/90)
Can you put a kickstart ROM on an A1000? If so, Where? I am new at the amiga, so excude me if these are dumb questions. Thanx in advance. -- ****************************************************************************** * Zach Steele * Famous Last Words: "Only a tiny,tiny,tiny little * * zach@mic.lonestar.org * thing" Dumbell the Fighter. * ******************************************************************************
terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts) (07/21/90)
In article <1455@mic.UUCP> zach@mic.UUCP (Zach Steele) writes: > > Can you put a kickstart ROM on an A1000? If so, Where? I am new at the >amiga, so excude me if these are dumb questions. Thanx in advance. I tried to respond to you by mail but it bounced. Yes it is possible to do what you want. Michigan Software makes a card that will plug in internally and allow you to have the kickstart in rom or from disk on demand. There is also a couple of hardware hacks available. One was mentioned here on the net about 3 or 4 months ago (I forget its name now). The other appeared in Robo City News about 4 years ago. I have the text of that article & could send it to you if you could give me a reliable address. Otherwise I could send it to Xanth & let you FTP it from there. Let me know what you want to do. Terry | Terry Ricketts | Internet: terry@helios.ucsc.edu | Senior Electronics Engineer | loel@helios.ucsc.edu | Lick Observatory Electronics Lab | Phone: 408-459-2110 | University of Calif, Santa Cruz |
seh@pmafire.UUCP (Steve Holaday) (07/21/90)
In article <1455@mic.UUCP> zach@mic.UUCP (Zach Steele) writes: > > Can you put a kickstart ROM on an A1000? If so, Where? I am new at the >amiga, so excude me if these are dumb questions. Thanx in advance. > Yes, I have a Kwickstart board in my 1000. It plugs into the 68000 socket and the 68000 plugs into it. Some soldering is required. It has a 1.3 rom in it which is only 256K. I called Michigan Software up to see if they would come out with a 512K version (for WB 2.0). I was told politely that 2.0 would not run on the 1000. Hopefully with time they'll see that it is possible to have 2.0 on a 1000. I really like the Kwickstart. It frees up 256k of memory which can be added in with addmem. It also allows me to boot with KS 1.1 with a disk so I can run some of those old games. -- mail: seh@pmafire.UUCP Steve Holaday or !uunet!pmafire!seh I *HATE* long signature files!