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Offline Tenacious

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Re: A3000 kickstart 1.3
« on: August 30, 2003, 05:51:01 PM »
I thought I was so cool, I went downstairs and found the A3000 SuperKickstart disk.  Then I noticed the version numbers, 2.0 & 2.01.  I've got the 1.3 version somewhere, I just can't find it right now, sorry.

You seem to know what you want, and I don't like to give unrequested help.  So I will only ask, you can run OS2.x but want to also run OS 1.3?  Are you interested in the newer 3.x versions of the OS?
 

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Re: A3000 kickstart 1.3
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2003, 07:17:08 PM »
My first A3000 came with KS 1.3 and 2 Workbench 1.3 disks.  Because OS 2.0 was under development when the A3000 was released, it aslso came with KS 2.0 and several WB 2.0 disks.  This original OS 2 was primitive.  Later WB 2.1 was released and fully devloped but I think the KS was the same.  Also there were two major revisions of the A3000 motherboard, the first (yours) with KS images on the HD (and a bare minimum Bios on rom), and the second with KS on the rom.  Unfortunately, the rom sockets were NOT pin for pin compatible, though a mismatch was not destructive.  There was also something about a rom daughterboard, but, I have forgotten the details.

Anyway, the KS disk is not normally formatted (therefore unreadable), but there was a way to back it up and copy it to your HD.  I'll have to read-up.