bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) (02/10/91)
In article <824@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: |In article <1222@stca77.stc.oz> peter@stca77.stc.oz (Peter Jeremy) writes: |>There has been a lot of smoke and heat generated in the net regarding the |>(lack of) WB2.0 for machines other than the A3000. One question I haven't |>seen asked (or answered) is why can't the existing WB2.0 be used on the |>A500/A1000/A2000? | |It actually DOES run on any Amiga. The only thing currently needed is Fast |RAM as first autoconfigured device plus a utility program only available |for registered developers and not for the public. But when it is in ROM, |then every machine should work with it. I had the notion that the Kickstart 2.0 image needed to load at address 0x200000. There was once a version that could load at 0xF00000, but that doesn't seem to have been continued. I'd love to get a version of zkick/Kickstart which could load at an arbitrary address. Several people I know have added memory at 0xC00000, which would be handy to use. An acquaintance has managed to get Kickstart loaded into a non-autoconfig memory board, and then rebooting to jump into it. Also, ROMs won't be much use for an A1000. In addition, they only have 256K of memory for Kickstart loading, so there are some interesting problems to be solved. -- ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario a /i/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `\o\-e UUCP: ...!uunet!mnetor!becker!bdb _< /_ "Que es mas macho: moral fiber, o oat bran?" - lala
jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) (02/11/91)
In article <71748@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) writes: >|It actually DOES run on any Amiga. The only thing currently needed is Fast >|RAM as first autoconfigured device plus a utility program only available >|for registered developers and not for the public. But when it is in ROM, >|then every machine should work with it. > > I had the notion that the Kickstart 2.0 > image needed to load at address 0x200000. > There was once a version that could load > at 0xF00000, but that doesn't seem to have > been continued. All current non-A3000 versions of 2.0 are beta copies for developers only. They are not meant to be final consumer-usable versions (particularily in how they are loaded - ROMs are needed for consumer versions). F00000 versions are internal-only, and require a special memory board. > I'd love to get a version of zkick/Kickstart > which could load at an arbitrary address. > Several people I know have added memory at > 0xC00000, which would be handy to use. This will not happen - the code is relocated for a specific address. Close to all developers have access to at least one machine that can run current 2.0 beta releases, and if they don't they can get one easily. #include <std_2.0_beta_&_non-developers.flame> -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)