I'm kind of just getting back into the Amiga stuff, my A500 and A1000 have been packed away for 10 or more years until a couple of months ago. I just got through soldering a proper null modem to work with Amiga Explorer (the one I had bought from the store years ago wasn't compatible with the handshaking) and I purchased a copy of Amiga Explorer and I've been dumping .ADF files over to real Amiga disks and trying to run them.
However, it has come to my attention that a lot of the games refuse to work due to lack of RAM. My A1000 has 512K chip ram and no fast-ram. My A500 actually has 1 MB but due to the nature of having a family and limited space to setup an old hobby computer, the A500 won't really fit anywhere. At least I can sit the monitor atop of the A1000.
My A1000 has kickstart built-in to ROM. Somebody had mentioned to me that I could enable that kickstart RAM and make it available to the system so I'd have 768K. Can somebody point me to some instructions on how to do that? keep in mind that I'm not that knowledgable about the operating sytem. All i ever used this thing for years ago was playing some games from floppy and calling BBSs. Outside of that, I never learned how to do much. So I'm not a wizard or anything like that.
Also.. is it possible to expand the internal RAM on the A1000 beyond what it has now? I have seen the ones that plug into the side, but I think that is hideous and takes up space. I'm good with a soldering iron and hardware mods and stuff, so if there is any modifications available that would allow me to add some internal RAM, I'd be happy to takle that.
Thank you for your help!
