New Kickstart 3.9.1 68k on the way

[QuikSanz]

There are probably lots things on everyone's wish list.  The first item on mine would be the ability to boot from CD.  This would make preserving our favorite system a lot more foolproof and user friendly going forward.

+1

Chris

[QuikSanz]

And where precisely is the problem with that? I've here a SSD in a modern system, boots up in probably ten seconds, makes no noise. You can also bootstrap the Amiga from an SD-card, much simpler, fast enough for the purpose, no noise, takes almost no space. The advantage is that is so simple to exchange system components. Read it as "flash RAM containing the kickstart files" if that makes it sound better.

Hmmm, and with an editor, you could even tailor your own. Interesting.

Chris

[QuikSanz]

You have no idea what's in an OS3.9 kickstart do you - it is all just relatively small updates to what's in an OS3.1 kickstart, they are essentially the same.

This brings us back to the start! Replace the old stuff with the new stuff and you eliminate the reboot patch. Perfect sense.

Now the idea to replace the ROM with a small flash and add some stuff that gets everything going in one quick action is an interesting proposition.

This gets my attention real quick. With new FPGA's we may have some very fast 68k machines soon and this would make everything fly.

Chris

[QuikSanz]

Flash adapter would be perfect. You could have some different ones on one flash, maybe even boot right in to WHDLoad.

[QuikSanz]

To heck with actual ROM's, plug in a custom flash adapter instead, right in the ROM socket.

[QuikSanz]

There you go, Proven to be do-able. Amigakit are you watching?

Chris