New Kickstart 3.9.1 68k on the way

[kolla]

Uhm, why old shell and ram-handler? Why workbench.library and icon.library at all?

[kolla]

One kickstart for all amigas sounds like a nightmare to get right

[kolla]

aros kickstart is the answer;)

Does it come with a scsci.device that detects and supports all the different disk controllers?

[kolla]

I meant the internal controllers provided with scsi.device in kickstart, like A600, A1200, A4000, A3000, A4000T and I have probably forgotten some. Those are mainly the reason why there are different kickstarts in the first place.

[kolla]

I still dont see what workbench.library and icon.library does in kickstart, unless you also throw in loadwb.

[kolla]

Have there yet been any legal dispute over such things in "amiga land"? No? If noone takes any action to upheld the copyrights of the works, then for all practical purposes there is no longer any copyright on the works, regardless of the 70 years mickey mouse law.

[kolla]

Anyone willing to do 68000 KingCON ROMable? The things I want in kickstart are the things I want available when booting to shell without startup-sequence.

[kolla]

KingCON has been ROMable for quite some time, but only for 020+.

[kolla]

This is supposed to be 3.9.1. AROS is only equivalent to 3.1, at best, and much less tightly written. So using AROS as a source for a "3.9.1" just won't cut it.

You have no idea what's in an OS3.9 kickstart do you - it is all just relatively small updates to what's in an OS3.1 kickstart, they are essentially the same.

[kolla]

Yup

[kolla]

A plain and simple no-nonsense kickstart, with scsi.device and filesystems that grasp big disks, that is all that most people really want. To boot strap. Not the entire OS in a slow to read ROM chip! Luckily creating custom kickstarts has become easy (one could even offer a web service to do it), and with some luck, flash based ROM replacement kits will finally emerge too, so one can easily upgrade kickstart on real classic hardware too. Personally I am going the FPGA route.

[kolla]

You are not missing anything, there's no good reason to use FAT unless you use a windows PC to prepare the card.

[kolla]

Whatever happened to pOS from ProDAD?

[kolla]

How does booting from CD drives work, in comparison? CDTV and CD32.

[kolla]

Yes, thanks for history lesson Only want to point out that CD32 actually came with kickstart 3.1, it was the first and AFAIK only product before CBM collapsed with 3.1 from the day it shipped