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Title: What does a guy have to do to get some updated ROMs for an A590
Post by: tiffers on July 16, 2008, 02:34:01 PM

Hi all,

I'm looking for some ROMs for my A590. I have v4.63 or something. I'd like to upgrade the ROMs to support bigger disks, and hope to find a 4 - 9GB scsi drive somewhere that would work better than the current 20MB XT drive which fails randomly.

Are these readily available? I have a binary image of the 7.0 ROMs, what sort of ROMs are needed, and what sort of hardware is needed to burn some off?

Is 7.0 the best version to go for?

Thanks,

tiffers

Title: Re: What does a guy have to do to get some updated ROMs for an A590
Post by: jimbo100 on July 16, 2008, 02:51:58 PM

They come up on eBay from time to time.  Some guy from Italy was selling them, which is where I got a set for my A590.

Title: Re: What does a guy have to do to get some updated ROMs for an A590
Post by: tiffers on July 17, 2008, 07:44:57 AM

@jimbo100

Sounds good. Do you happen to have his ebay id (or other contact details) still handy? What version did you get? What drive are youusing with them?

Are there any opinions regarding best version to stick into an A590?

tiffers

Title: Re: What does a guy have to do to get some updated ROMs for an A590
Post by: alexh on July 17, 2008, 10:24:35 AM

I can provide the binary files if you want to make your own??

The last version was AFAIK version 7.0

Title: Re: What does a guy have to do to get some updated ROMs for an A590
Post by: Jeff on July 17, 2008, 01:48:56 PM

You will probably have to just burn your own or have a friend do it. The binaries are around, I have them as do others. I'm pretty sure that they are a pair of 2764's. The 7.0 binaries from the A2091 might work also.

-Jeff

Title: Re: What does a guy have to do to get some updated ROMs for an A590
Post by: mike- on July 17, 2008, 04:27:43 PM

I could use them too, i have one sitting around, but no 500.

Title: Re: What does a guy have to do to get some updated ROMs for an A590
Post by: alexh on July 17, 2008, 04:37:02 PM

Quote

Jeff wrote:
7.0 binaries from the A2091 might work also

They are the same.

Title: Re: What does a guy have to do to get some updated ROMs for an A590
Post by: orange on July 17, 2008, 04:41:22 PM

i used the same from alexh (8702 bytes .lha), and IIRC the standard 27c256.