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Re: Custom Kickstart ROMs
« on: April 15, 2015, 12:19:13 PM »
So this does not allow you to write to the roms from software need hardware ?

is it not like that zorro thing , what am i thinking of ?
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Re: Custom Kickstart ROMs
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2015, 11:58:16 AM »
Quote from: Castellen;787851
Hopefully he sorts out the mentioned licencing and gets the product rolling.  I designed and produced a similar tidy solution around 6 years ago (see attached) which was aimed as a simple flash based ROM replacement for anything A500 upwards.  The ROM modules were intended to be sold blank, so avoiding issues of needing licences for the product; and programmed using a purpose built low cost programmer connected to the Amiga parallel port.  I also developed all the Amiga software for controlling the programmer, which included facilities for manipulating ROM data (odd/even split/combine, verification, etc) and other fancy features.

Unfortunately I'm an electronics engineer; I'm not into retail supply, so needed someone else to do sales.  It was all rather disappointing after talking to a number of Amiga retailers who were all keen to know more, then sending away a number of free samples, only to never hear anything back.  Even a simple "sorry, not interested" would have been fine, or at least some kind of response to repeated follow ups.

And that was that....

You would think this would be the sort of thing amigaKit would pick up
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