Cloanto 3.x rom Amiga 500

[Iggy]

Maybe it's way easier to just send it back and get myself a original 3.1 kickstart rom...

A question Cloanto probably wouldn't look too kindly on, but could the rom be edited to add the missing components and be re-burned?

[Iggy]

Physical address lines?

On anything less than a 68020, yeah that makes sense.
So the CD32, 1200, 3000 and 4000 ought to be able to handle a 1 meg rom.

[Iggy]

CD32 had some whackadoodle design to use up to 2x 16-bit 1MB ROM's (total of 2MB), rather than the 32-bit ROM's like the A1200/4000.  By default it had only a single 1MB ROM chip that had both 3.1 & the custom CD32 stuff in it.   I seem to recall someone here a while back hacked their system to support both ROM sockets (and burned custom ROM's for it), but had some issues with memory addressing overlap.  Don't have time to look up the thread now, but maybe it was Cosmos?

I'd love to find out more about that.
I am enjoying experimenting with Smerf's CD32.
With the SX1 attached it does a pretty good imitation of an A1200 with an added CD drive.

[Iggy]

There was a thread on here about it a few months ago.  I was just paraphrasing from memory.  If you look at the motherboard of a CD32 you can see where the extra ROM socket would go:

(U6B, under the sticker)

Cool, I will dig up some info of that.
Thanks.