Kickflash finally available in the US

[Lemmink]

MaDDuck wrote:
So, let me see if I get this striaght:
1. It will read your KS ROMs and load them into flash RAM
2. It will then access them a bit faster than reading the ROMs from the MLB

therefore, it would offer some performance increase.

And, of course, it would allow a newer machine (A3000, A4000) to actually boot upto a 1.3 ROM.

Did I miss something??

No no no no.
This card does basically the same as Blizzkick or similar programms. Only that it does this in hardware even before the harddrive has spun up. So you could build your custom made Kickstart by utilizeing parts of the OS3.5/3.9 ROM-Updatefiles or other modules. This will save you the hazzel of an extra reboot.
You can compare this to the flasrom-part of the algor or the ROMulus module for the Highway.

[Lemmink]

@MaDDuck

For A3000 and A4000 there is much faster Flash card with all Kickflash features. It is eFlash 4000 from Elbox. eFlash 4000 is a Zorro III card. Kickflash is Zorro II. eFlash 4000 info page is here.

Whaahaha, that was a good one. Sure makes a huge different if reading of a few hundred kb of kickstartcode takes 0.5 or 0.2 seconds. Advertise this again when Elbox delivers a software that actually let`s you use this card.

[Lemmink]

The Kickflash memory is some kind of a reflashable ROM, so it will not be available as RAM. The 1GB expansion will surely act similar, though I think it will be mounted as a drive. I guess the piont of this expansion is that you can build a complete diskless and therefore silent an low energy machine. RAM on a ZII Card would be dead slow anyway, about 1/20th of the speed of the RAM on an accelerator at best. Even ZIII- RAM stinks.