Amiga 3000 kickstart question

[amigadave]

barney wrote:
Sombody here may be able to answer this qustion I have.  Is it better for me to softboot kickstart 3.1 or install kickstart 3.1 ROMS?  I read somewhere on the internet that installing the 3.1 ROMS makes the computer much slower and very unstable.  Somobody even said that they had to slow their MHZ down from 25 to 16.  If anybody has any input to this, I would appreciate it.

Barney

What you were told was a bunch of crap.  I have installed 3.1 Kickstart ROMs in almost all my Amigas and in every A3000 & A4000 with no problems.  Many accelerators softkick the ROMs into faster memory for increased performance, but it is not a huge difference and I have never heard of anyone having to "slow down" their CPU to use the ROMs.

Buy them from AmigaKit and support one of the few Amiga dealers that we have left.  Don't be tempted to pirate the ROMs from anywhere.

[amigadave]

barney wrote:
Thanks Amigadave.  I currently have the A3000 with the boot tower and 1.4 roms.  Are you saying that I some places sell a sofboot version of kickstart 3.1?  I have heard it mentioned before but all I ever seen myself is A3000 kickstart chip ROMS.  If you know of a place that sells the sofboot version, please tell me where it is.  thanks.

Can sombody tell me the minimum kickstart required to run OS 3.1?

I suggest you get the real ROM chips to install in your ROM tower, as I don't know all the steps to soft-kick 3.1 into your A3000.

But if you must, buy AmigaForever from Colanto to get all the Kickstart files, but ask someone else for directions on what to do next to get the files into your A3000.