Remapollo for A4060

[Gulliver]

@Thomas Richter

I know it is a little bit off-topic, but please indulge me:

Extractmodule & loadmodule are both excellent tools, but there is one big problem for the casual Amiga user out there: extractmodule stores its modules all over the place in sys: and it is quite a mess to distinguish all modules from traditional disk components, and many of them get easily forgotten when one tries to find them.

I understand the reasoning behind you setting them to be in all those places. But again, it is messy for an average user and it makes it difficult for most out there.

Wouldnt it be a better solution to have extractmodule store them inside a specific drawer for that purpose, like for example sys:devs/kickstart or something like that, and if you want you can put all kinds of subdirectories you think you will need inside there?

I am afraid that if you dont do something to solve this, you will end up flooded with emails and forum posts asking for help just for this matter.

I just hope you reconsider this for the benefit of us all.

[Gulliver]

@Thomas Richter

You are ignoring the fact that brewing a custom rom for the Amiga user has become a very common sport, and I cannot blame them.

That is why the scattered modules approach sucks.

Every Amiga user out there has different acquired tastes for different choices of components, some enjoy replacing console handlers, others require patched modules for the system to work on their new hardware (remember that traditional Amiga manufacturing ended between 1994/1996). So new hardware most of the time requires doing funky things to the kickstart to adapt it. I know it is not a desirable situation, but it is certainly better than not having new hardware at all.

There is no universally accepted use regarding modules. I understand that from the the developers point of view this creates a support mayhem, but from the user point of view, this is certainly salvation.

Just ask around here, and you will soon notice that nearly everyone, for a reason or another, does something "non standard" to their rom/kickstart modules.