AB100%DK0RRZK0.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (12/06/88)
A friend of mine has the following question:
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Hi, folks.
I have been feeding my Amiga 1000 with its beloved Kickstart Disk for ages
now.
Does any one know how to add Kickstart-ROMS to the expansion port of the
A1000 ? Is it as easy as just putting the ROMS on a proper board with address
and data bus buffers and giving them a chip-select signal at $FC0000 ?
Or do I have to patch the contents of Kickstart somewhere ?
Thanks, Uwe.
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Another question:
Has anyone ported the pd-tar program to the amiga? It is used on
the Atari ST and on several UN*X-Machines. It archives whole
directory trees in one file. Then this file can be compressed with
compress. Then the compression rate is much higher than using arc or
zoo.
Thanks, Ortwin
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AB100@DK0RRZK0.bitnetsneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) (12/08/88)
In Message <5812@louie.udel.EDU>, AB100%DK0RRZK0.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes: >Hi, folks. >I have been feeding my Amiga 1000 with its beloved Kickstart Disk for ages >now. >Does any one know how to add Kickstart-ROMS to the expansion port of the >A1000 ? Is it as easy as just putting the ROMS on a proper board with address >and data bus buffers and giving them a chip-select signal at $FC0000 ? >Or do I have to patch the contents of Kickstart somewhere ? In the "2ND ANNUAL AMIGA DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE NOTES" (available from CATS) there is a section on how to modify a A1000 to use KickStart ROMs. And also the info on how to make those ROMs. > Has anyone ported the pd-tar program to the amiga? It is used on > the Atari ST and on several UN*X-Machines. It archives whole > directory trees in one file. Then this file can be compressed with > compress. Then the compression rate is much higher than using arc or > zoo. I didnt write it, but I do have a TAR commmand for AmigaDOS. It works very well and has served me both to and from Ultrix tar files. E-Mail me if you want a uuencoded copy. -- Dan "Sneakers" Schein {pyramid|rutgers|uunet}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers Sneakers Computing 2455 McKinley Ave. Of course heimat is an Amiga. West Lawn, PA 19609 Doesn't everyone run UUCP & UseNet on an Amiga? Call: BERKS AMIGA BBS - 60+ Megs - 24 Hrs - 3/12/2400 Baud - 215/678-7691