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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Uityyy on March 11, 2025, 04:41:26 AM

Title: Amiga OS 3.2 on Amiga 1000
Post by: Uityyy on March 11, 2025, 04:41:26 AM

Does anyone here have experience installing Amiga OS 3.2 on an Amiga 1000? The installation instructions say it is supported and that a 3.x Kickstart ROM is required, but the Amiga 1000 uses Kickstart floppies in place of ROMs, and the installation instructions don't specify what to write as a Kisktart floppy.

Title: Re: Amiga OS 3.2 on Amiga 1000
Post by: orange on March 11, 2025, 09:43:31 AM

IIRC, Amiga 1000 has only 256K RAM for kickstart, KS3+ are 512K ?
I'd make/buy some hardware adapter or accelerator that can take KS3+
Loading it on every (cold) boot is tedious, perhaps even from hdd.

Title: Re: Amiga OS 3.2 on Amiga 1000
Post by: kolla on March 11, 2025, 10:26:47 AM

Yes, for exampel Parceiro II.
(though I use a pistorm in mine)

Title: Re: Amiga OS 3.2 on Amiga 1000
Post by: Uityyy on March 11, 2025, 08:43:55 PM

I actively prefer loading Kickstarts on every boot the Amiga 1000 way. It's slower, but it allows me to switch between different systems rather handily.

Title: Re: Amiga OS 3.2 on Amiga 1000
Post by: orange on March 12, 2025, 10:43:01 AM

IIRC, some hardware solutions also include kickstart switchers.

Title: Re: Amiga OS 3.2 on Amiga 1000
Post by: kolla on March 13, 2025, 12:48:53 AM

Quote from: Uityyy on March 11, 2025, 08:43:55 PM

I actively prefer loading Kickstarts on every boot the Amiga 1000 way. It's slower, but it allows me to switch between different systems rather handily.

Ok, so you want a 3.2 kickstart floppy. The WOM of the A1000 where kickstart normally is loaded to, is just 256kB, so you will need fast ram and softkick program of some sort.

I would have tried some of these…

https://aminet.net/package/util/misc/ykick

https://aminet.net/package/util/misc/KickTools

https://aminet.net/package/util/sys/twinkick

Title: Re: Amiga OS 3.2 on Amiga 1000
Post by: Bluewizard on March 15, 2025, 01:01:33 AM

I added a Pi-Storm to mine and the Pi-Storm can then boot whatever Kickstart you want.

Biggest problem I have is I still only have 512k of Chip RAM.  :(.   No rejuvenator in mine sadly.

Title: Re: Amiga OS 3.2 on Amiga 1000
Post by: kolla on March 15, 2025, 04:54:19 PM

@Bluewizard

Same here, it’s a shame that there’s no straight forward solution for adding more chipram on PAL A1000s.