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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Karlos on September 05, 2003, 02:13:20 PM

Title: Where to buy Kickstart 3.1 ROMs?
Post by: Karlos on September 05, 2003, 02:13:20 PM

Hi all,

During my recent return home I managed to cobble enough old spares together to build myself an A1200 desktop wedge (ah sweet nostalgia).

I'm a bit stuck OS wise - I have both OS3.1 and 3.5 and wanted to use the old HD from my tower in the wedge. The only problem is that the old system has Kickstart 3.0 only and wont recognise the partitions properly. This is no doubt due to the fact that when it was running in my tower I upgraded the filesystem with the OS3.5 fastfilesystem.

I have been scouting around online to see if anywhere sells the KS3.1 chips but they all seem to be available as bundles with 3.5/3.9, when all I want to do is run 3.1 on the desktop 1200 (I have the disks but no roms as they are in my tower).

Anybody know where I can pick a pair up from at a reasonable price?

Title: Re: Where to buy Kickstart 3.1 ROMs?
Post by: Cyberus on September 05, 2003, 02:19:23 PM

eBay
There's a company in Germany www.schatzruhe.de (sp?) that sells as Amigetta on eBay

Title: Re: Where to buy Kickstart 3.1 ROMs?
Post by: Karlos on September 05, 2003, 02:22:07 PM

Sweet. Thanks :-)

Title: Re: Where to buy Kickstart 3.1 ROMs?
Post by: lorddef on September 05, 2003, 02:23:51 PM

Ebay (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3043810371&category=11991) ????

I don't know if thats a fair price though.

Title: Re: Where to buy Kickstart 3.1 ROMs?
Post by: Spidey on September 05, 2003, 02:26:06 PM

Hello Karlos,

You can try Computer City (http://compcity.nl/shop/E_frame.html) in Holland.

Spidey

Title: Re: Where to buy Kickstart 3.1 ROMs?
Post by: Vincent on September 05, 2003, 02:32:12 PM

You could get them cheaper elsewhere, but if you go through Power Computing you'll be able to get them replaced if they're faulty.

A1200 3.1 Roms on their own (http://www.powerc.com/cgi-bin/psearch.cgi?code=623-0001&rn=357&aid=&uid=ssRkeUSWevI1RjY&sid=&cid=4&act=gpage)

They are reliable, as long as the items are in stock, if they're not, keep emailing them to get answers ;-)

Title: Re: Where to buy Kickstart 3.1 ROMs?
Post by: Karlos on September 05, 2003, 02:32:29 PM

Cheers guys. I guess I needed to look a bit farther than I did :-)

Title: Re: Where to buy Kickstart 3.1 ROMs?
Post by: Karlos on September 05, 2003, 02:34:50 PM

Hmm, maybe I will go for a 3.9 bundle, after all :-)

Title: Re: Where to buy Kickstart 3.1 ROMs?
Post by: mikeymike on September 05, 2003, 03:14:07 PM

I bought mine from Eyetech.co.uk (http://www.eyetech.co.uk/).

Title: Re: Where to buy Kickstart 3.1 ROMs?
Post by: olegil on September 05, 2003, 03:22:12 PM

I've been trying to use 3.5 on the Access, but am in the process of giving up and buying another 3.9 license ;-)

Title: Re: Where to buy Kickstart 3.1 ROMs?
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on September 05, 2003, 03:43:11 PM

I bought mine from Software Hut here in the US.
http://www.softhut.com/ (http://www.softhut.com/)