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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Stingray on December 17, 2005, 01:32:59 AM

Title: Kickstart Disc
Post by: Stingray on December 17, 2005, 01:32:59 AM

Hi there,

I still have an A500 with 2.04 that´s in working order, also a 1000 and a CDTV. I was trying to revive the 1000 machine, but all of my kickstart discs have died, except for the 1.1, which isn´t really of help.

Do I have any chance to use e.g. my cloanto ROMs for building a kickstart disc? I have a Catweasel controller, so I could build this image with UAE and wrtie it back to disc afterwards.

Please note that this is no piracy, I have the original machine and also the ROM files. All I want to do is to write it to disc...

Thanks,
Chris

Title: Re: Kickstart Disc
Post by: TjLaZer on December 17, 2005, 02:07:18 AM

I agree with you, since you own the machine and a Kickstart 2.x ROM you are entitled to Workbench 2.05.  If you can't get them copied, I can send you a copy of the disks.

Title: Re: Kickstart Disc
Post by: _ThEcRoW on December 17, 2005, 03:16:02 AM

You can do that with the catweasel. Go for it!!!!!!

Title: Re: Kickstart Disc
Post by: bigdan on December 17, 2005, 08:21:20 AM

Stingray : try the shell command WriteKickDisk (http://www.aminet.net/package.php?package=util/misc/WriteKickDisk.lha) (aminet/util/misc)

You could probably also test TwinKick (http://www.aminet.net/package.php?package=util/sys/twinkick.lha) (aminet/util/sys) who produce a KS1.3 and KS3.1 disk !

Title: Re: Kickstart Disc
Post by: Stingray on December 17, 2005, 10:12:32 AM

Wow that was fast...

I think bigdans utils can help me pretty much, I can use them in UAE, create a Kick and then copy the buffer to disc with Catweasel.

Thank you guys, that was really quick. This forum seems to be as friendly as the Amiga scene was back in 1990...

Cheers,
Chris

Title: Re: Kickstart Disc
Post by: TrevorDick on December 17, 2005, 10:36:45 AM

For the A1000 you will need the special kickstart disk. I was in the same position as you having bought a couple of A1000's off ebay. I managed to track down the A1000 from a supplier who provided me with a copy of Kickstart with produvtion of my Amiga serial number. Since you already have an Amiga 1000 I could send you a copy on disk plus workbench if you PM me your A1000 serial number and contact details.

TrevorDick

Title: Re: Kickstart Disc
Post by: zipper on December 17, 2005, 11:56:43 AM

http://www.rbenda.de/commodore/software.html

...seems to be offline atm.

Title: Re: Kickstart Disc
Post by: Stingray on December 17, 2005, 03:11:12 PM

Damn, this is cool!

FYI: I made an image of my original 1.3 Workbench using Catweasel, then opened the image in ADF Opus on the PC and added "transrom" and "writekickdisk" to the "c" drawer. I then booted UAE with that disk, using Kickstart 1.3 in the first place. After that, I wrote the Kickstart ROM to the ram: disk, copyied "writekickdisk" there and put a blank image file in the virtual df0:.

I then used Catweasel again to write the image back to disk. Wow, that really works.

Funny stuff - thanks for all your help.

If anybody should ever be in need again - I can send out disks from here. Just let me know. I now have Kicstart 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 for the A1000...

Chris

Title: Re: Kickstart Disc
Post by: bigdan on December 17, 2005, 04:15:14 PM

Great to see an A1000 rebirth with new kickdisk !

Arnaud aka "bigdan",
near Vesoul east of France,
yet another Catweasel user ;-]

Title: Re: Kickstart Disc
Post by: Stingray on December 17, 2005, 06:41:40 PM

Yep... :-)

Do you have any ideas where I can find some schematics for this machine? The vent at the back seems to have some kind of trouble and I am thinking about replacing it...

Thanks,
Chris

Title: Re: Kickstart Disc
Post by: Chain on December 18, 2005, 11:32:29 AM

A1000 schematics etc... (http://a1k.org/)