512K 3.9 ROM, how?

[Brian]

Is it possible to make a 512K 3.9 Kickstart ROM for my A600 without removing workbench.library using 3.9 romupdate, boingbag update files and better but smaller 3rd party alternatives?

I know A600 can do 1MB ROM's but that's not an option for my project and although the loss of the workbench.library wouldn't be the end of the world it would be nice if the ROM could be complete.

[Brian]

Why do you want it in ROM?

If you have OS3.9, I presume you have a hard drive? You can load workbench.library and icon.library to be boot resident from hard drive using LoadModule, and after that they will be there even if you boot from floppy, till you either remove them or power off.

It would just be nice to have it in ROM that's all, I never liked the idea of systemcritical files not being in ROM when 99% of the software assumes it is.

I'm setting up a multiboot A600 that boots into WB1.3, WB2.1, OS3.1 and OS3.9 but right now I have to do it manually since I can't just go on ROM version check alone... since all OS'es have their own partition it's no big issue having wb.lib on disk for 3.9 and since I can always switch OS in case a disk don't work propperly without wb.lib it's not critical, just a nice thing to have if possible.

[Brian]

I'm curious - how do you switch kickstarts?

Currently have a triple ROM switch but it's a thing I need to work out, not sure exactly how yet. The easy solution would be to combine the switch I have with another dual ROM switch to get a 4'th ROM position. But I'm thinking of neater solutions, maybe make a 1MB ROM switch and have 2 ROM's in each chip or use a dual ROM switch together with piggybacking ROM's.