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Offline motorollinTopic starter

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Blizkick Modules in ROM image
« on: June 04, 2006, 08:28:30 AM »
Is it possible to insert Blizkick modules in to a kickstart ROM image? The reason I ask is that I have a set of 27C400 EPROMs and a chip programmer coming my way soon. I'm going to burn the 3.9 ROM image I am currently Blizkicking on to the chips, and I want to include some Blizkick patches.

Also, is there a Blizkick module which gives access to CD-ROMs? It would be cool to insert this in to a ROM image and burn it to a chip so the CD-ROM drive would be available from cold boot (and bootable without a floppy disk?)

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BlizKick module to mount CD-ROM
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2006, 08:49:13 AM »
Just answered my first question by using Remus to insert BlizKick's NoClick module in to my 3.9 image. BlizKicked the new image, and my floppy drive was silent  :-D

Just need to find out if there is a ROM patch to mount devices, so my CD-ROM would be visible from cold boot.

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: BlizKick module to mount CD-ROM
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2006, 09:07:50 AM »
Just found MountCD on Aminet, which is a command which mounts a CD-ROM in such a way that it remains resident. I wonder whether this technique could be used to create a CD-ROM kickstart module?

MountCD takes the mountlist as an argument, e.g. mountcd cd0:. I suppose the mountlist and CD filesystem would have to be inserted into the kickstart image as well with standard names, so the mountcd module could find and mount it.

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Blizkick Modules in ROM image
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2006, 10:47:00 AM »
I bought these chips, this programmer and this 16-bit adapter for the programmer. Hope they work! :-) Will report on my progress once it has all arrived.

Still hoping for an answer about a MountCD kickstart module. Piru are you here? :-) Maybe Oliver Kastl is still around?

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Blizkick Modules in ROM image
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2006, 11:13:03 AM »
Thanks Piru. Have managed to insert the module with Remus, which I find a bit more friendly.

Do you know if Oliver Kastl is still involved with the Amiga at all? If so, I will contact him and see if any source code is available for MountCD.

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Blizkick Modules in ROM image
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2006, 11:20:15 AM »
Just tried to email olli@elaborate-bytes.com, and the mail was returned undeliverable :-(

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10