A1000 & ks

[mrknight]

What I've heard is that Kickstart was too buggy so it was better to do a floppy Kickstart rather that having it in firmware. I suppose this would have saved C= a lot of problems from users having Kickstart related problems.

There are pins on the motherboard to install a Kickstart, albeit split over 2 chips.

I didn't know this. Sounds to me like it was a last minute decision to go floppy. Support the buggy Kickstart theory;)

I have an A1000 with an Insider board and MC68010. Wonder if it's woth tinkering with a Kickstart ROM...

[mrknight]

I have to admit that I'm slowly changing my opinion on this topic. When I got my A1000 I found it a bit annoying with the extra floppy change. But now I have "upgraded" to KS1.3 without much hazzle. And I can "downgrade" easily for compatibility reasons if I need to. I belive I could strip some things from a WB floppy and create a combined KS/WB floppy and avoid the extra floppy change. Is this possible?

Too bad only that A1000 doesn't support KS larger that 256KB. I wouln't mind running KS2.x.

[mrknight]

http://aminet.net/package/docs/hard/512kWOM

Thank you for that link! I guess you will loose 256KB of RAM to make up for the lack of WOM?

[mrknight]

Did you read the description?

Honestly? No, I didn't. Can't open LHA files. Will deal with it tomorrow. Promise!

[mrknight]

I've read it now. Seems to be a lot of HW hacking. I'm not that desperat to use KS2.x with my A1000 anyway. But still interesting to see the creativity in the Amiga community!