My A1000 is ALIVE!

[Pentad]

I got it to boot to the WOM yesterday...

Congrats!  I've been following your threads about resurrecting your 1000. I'm glad you figured it out.  Looks really nice too!

Cheers!
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[Pentad]

All you need now is KickTOS!  


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ta4OYhsEY



She'll purr with that while Jay Miner spins in his grave...

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[Pentad]

I have always thought the A1000 was one of the sexiest computers I've ever seen.  There is just something about the case and the look of the machine.  It was so un-IBM for the time.  The Mac seemed like a toy beside her in 1985.

I don't know who did this picture but I cropped it for my desktop so I could use it in my wallpaper rotation:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/AmigaA1000.jpg


That, my friends, is a very sexy computer.  :-)

I thought the Amiga 3000 captured the sex appeal of the Amiga 1000 years later...


Again, congrats!

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[Pentad]

When I first saw the message header, I thought you were going to complain about catching the SCA virus. ;-)

Well, "Something Wonderful" did happen!  ;-)

[Pentad]

Speaking of the Amiga 1000, doesn't the picture below indicate that Apple copied the design of the Amiga 1000?

http://www.vintagemacmuseum.com/images/PowerPC6100.jpg

and

http://media.macworld.co.uk/cmsdata/news/24596/26-01-25-PowerMac-6100-535.jpg

As soon as I saw this Apple model, my first thought was that Apple copied the 'look' of the Amiga 1000.


Just MHO,
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[Pentad]

I am confused. It says it's an Amiga 1000 kickstart disk but it's already had kickstart loaded, otherwise you wouldn't get the hand.
 
Atari ST emulation on the Amiga isn't new, you could do it back in the day.
 
If I had an A1000 I might be tempted to make it boot from ROM and turn the WOM into RAM (pretty sure there was a way of doing that). However I think ultimately I would leave it original.

No, the hand on the Amiga 1000 -when you first turn it on- is asking for a Kickstart Disk, not a Workbench disk.  Once Kickstart is read then it will present another hand for Workbench.  Much like you see on other Kickstart ROM based Amigas.

If I read everything right, the KickTOS disk loads a copy of TOS (Atari ST's based OS) into the area where Kickstart normally goes.  Then the Atari emulator points to TOS so you can run Atari ST stuff.

A long time ago I did work on Medusa (an Atari emulator) and had to do a bunch of TOS work.  It was a neat project but I was also just a kid...

Still, this is pretty cool!  :-)

[Pentad]

It was my understanding that KickTOS wasn't an emulator, that it was a hacked TOS that ran native on the Amiga... essentially turning your A1000 into an Atari ST, but with a bunch of dormant amiga hardware.  It loads TOS into the WCS, then just runs natively from there as if it were an ST.  Or am I mistaken?

You are probably right.  I only read a brief summary.  The Atari ST is pretty simple and cobbled together from basic off-the-shelf parts.  I guess it would be pretty easy to load TOS and then patch system calls to handle the memory addresses.  

I read somewhere else that after TOS there was only like 64k (?) left for patching which isn't enough to do everything they would like.  

While its impressive today, imagine what kind of a stir this would have made back in the day.  Wow...

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