A1000 & ks

[desiv]

The A1000 has FOUR rom spots that a set of ROM was released for developers, but no official release from C=.

Yeah, I've seen some mods you can buy that allow you to add ROMs to your 1000, but they all involve soldering.  Not just putting something in those ROM sockets..  So I wonder how complete/compatible they were...

Personally, I like the ROM on a floppy...  ;-)  Way easier to change ROMs. (At least until 2.x came out and it wouldn't fit anymore)

desiv

[desiv]

That would be a minority, I didn't have an A1000 until later,
but for the A500 I would have been glad to have it in a solid state device
rather than something that wears out, before load times entered into it.

Not sure..
I also prefer the floppy..
And as for "wears out"..  My original kickstart disks still work.
And the copies I routinely boot from still work...

In fact, I have a CF hard disk on my A1000 that requires a boot floppy.
But, using kickwork, I have one floppy disk that sits in my A1000.  Boot it up, it loads kickstart, then off of the same disk it loads the hard disk driver and then passes control over to the hard disk.  Easy...  When I need kick 1.2 (or lower), I have those disks..
I'm not saying it's better than ROM, but it's actually not a big deal..

The only real drawback is that there's only enough memory for the kickstart 1.x series..   Of course, I kind of like 1.x on my A1000...  ;-)

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