Kickstart ROM chip "390630-02" , for what amiga????

[alexh]

It is one half of an A3000 KS1.4 ROM set. On it's own it is useless.

Even if you had two they wont work in the A2000 as they are 32-bit.

As for why someone gave it you:

1) Some accelerators take 32-bit Kickstart ROMS. Seems strange to want to use KS1.4 as it only can boot from the A3000 SCSI controller!

2) It had Amiga and Commodore on it and so the guy who sold you the A2000 threw it in a box with all the other bits he was getting rid of.

I favour (2).

[alexh]

eslapion wrote:
I don't know who's the nincompoop who called these ROMs KS1.4

Commodore. Some chips have printed on them "1.4 beta 3"

but there is no such things as a kickstart 1.4

Yes there is.

Also, the only thing I was EVER able to get an A3000 to do with these ROMs is tell it where to get the real kickstart from. There is no real kickstart whatsoever in them.

Not true, as Motorollin has already said there is a secret gadget in the top corner of the screen which allows it to boot with the kickstart stored in the ROMS.

   1. Shutdown the Amiga.
   2. Hold down both mouse buttons when you power on.
   3. You will get an OS 1.3 / OS 2.0 selection menu. Select neither!
   4. Instead, move your cursor to where the window's close gadget SHOULD be (upper left) and click it.

You might have to fumble around, but eventually the computer will react and boot into 1.4. You will of course get error messages as the OS 2.x partitions will be used for startup, and they require newer kickstarts, but you'll see some rather interesting GUI concepts :-)