A1200 ROM Image Version 40.68. Anybody have it?

[nyteschayde]

Before you start flaming me I do actually own 3.1 ROMs for my A3000D and my A3000T. The trouble started when these machines broke recently. I purchased an A4000D and it has only 3.0 ROMs on it. I cannot afford to purchase ROMs right now so in the interim I want to use SKick.

SKick 3.44, which is version 3.43 with .PAT and .RTB files for 40.68 A1200 ROMs, will not work with a 40.68 A4000D ROM image that someone else was already nice enough to loan to me.

I would like to try using A1200 versions of the 40.68 ROMs as I expect them to work. It appears, from my testing, that these patch and relocation table files are ROM specific. I can use my 34.05 (kickstart 1.3) ROM from my A500 on the A4000D but I need a valid A1200 3.1 ROM to use the supplied patch and relocation table files supplied in the SKick archive.

If anybody with an A1200 has 3.1 ROMs and would like to help me out please email me. I plan to have the cash to get rid of the ROM image sometime within the next few months but I can't stand using Workbench 3.1 any longer. I can't believe how dependant I've become on the 3.9 release already. Please help.

-nyteschayde

[nyteschayde]

Actually I own Amiga Forever as well. The ROMs from there don't seem to be working for me. Has something to do with the fact that they're encrypted. UAE is designed to use the rom.key file that comes with Amiga Forever but SKick and native Amiga applications are not. Thanks for the heads up though.

Really I have purchased more Amiga ROMs than I own computers. I just need another and I don't have the money for it right now. Please help me out.

[nyteschayde]

I am waiting for an image, but I still haven't been able to hook up with the user. C'mon people, I know there is an A1200 out there with a 40.68 ROM image on it that I can use.

If you are worried about piracy I'll send you an email with my purchase receipt from Cloanto showing that I have purchased all legal ROM images that exist... with the serial number blotted out of course.

I have 2 A500's, 1 A3000T, 1 A3000D, and now 1 A4000D. I purchased my first A500 in 1989 and have been an avid Amiga fan since. I have not lacked in support of this community. I was there in when Jim Collas offered his false hopes. I was there when Commodore repeatedly screwed up releasing bad choice of machines one after another (A600, CD32, etc..).

If your first Amiga was an A1200 I was writing C programs and advanced AmigaDOS shell scripts before you knew how to use Workbench. I just need a ROM image to hold me over. Help me out.

[nyteschayde]

@Paul

Regardless of whether the rom.key file is nothing more than a copyright text or not the ROMs included with AmigaForever are larger by a few bytes and none of the existing soft kickers recognized them implying that they are indeed encrypted.

@Jope

That on the other hand is an excellent idea. I booted WinUAE and typed version. Unfortunately, even if it did work it would be the wrong 3.1 ROM version. Version 40.63 is really common, and its the version that shipped with my Cloanto Amiga Forever. SKick doesn't support 40.63 boot ROMs.

@everyone

I received an A1200 40.68 ROM. It is recognized by SKick and gets patched and relocated correctly. It turns out however that I may end up being out of luck after all anyway. One the soft kicker boots the machine warm boots like normal and goes into an endless cycle of rebooting.

Once I Ctrl-A-A a few times it resets like a cold boot and goes back to my 39.06 3.0 ROM and I can try something else. I tried SKicking without patching and that works. I get a purple screen with a 40.68 ROM notice and ... wait. Purple screen. No HDDs!!! Also no Fast RAM as I found out. I have mailed the person who uploaded SKick3.44 to aminet but have received no response as of yet.

I may just be without a real amiga until I can afford the ROMs. I am more than open to suggestions but I wanted to thank those who offered to help me. You know who you are. I am avoiding placing your names here so that you don't get flammed. Thanks again.