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Re: Kickflash OS4 (Zorro) - what exactly does it do?
« on: November 26, 2006, 05:24:50 PM »
the kickflash stores a kickstart image in it, plus whatever other drivers u need (like the poseidon stack) and the boingbag updates you want. in a way it builds a super-kickstart up to 1MB. then when the amiga powers, it reads that instead of the ks-roms, and u have a nice single boot machine with drivers on boot time, so u can boot from usb or use a usb mouse.

edit: all work from cold boot, u can use it in whatever wb u want and the OS4 means that when the software only OS4 ks update gets released, u can store it in the kickflash and not softkick like the BB updates.
 

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Re: Kickflash OS4 (Zorro) - what exactly does it do?
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2006, 10:27:32 AM »
get a kickflash, and when u decide u need usb, just add a subway to it!
on a csppc 060/50 , I got ~670kb/sec.
 

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Re: Kickflash OS4 (Zorro) - what exactly does it do?
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2006, 11:49:52 AM »
true, but an algor is a rarity these days, whereas the subway is available now and new. Also algor is faster because it has a better usb chip.
maybe e3b will make a new algor run, who knows...