Custom Kickstart ROMs

[kolla]

http://youtu.be/unqY2QD8uq8

How this is not a product is beyond me.

[kolla]

I discovered the leaking capacitors in the Amiga Classics world : I started a blog in december 2009 to inform the community...

Before me, nobody here talked about capacitors...

Sheesh, what a load of nonsense, I replaced leaking caps on A1200 boards way back at university, meaning before 2002. It has always been a well known issue, and not just with Amiga, but all computers.

[kolla]

I just want easily flashable kickstart replacements that I can populate with my own custom kickstarts or even linux kernel loaders. There has been kick switchers in sale since forever, what makes flashable kickstart replacements different I do not grasp.

[kolla]

@wawrzon
@kolla
@LoadWB

lol !

I read many Amiga forums every days since the very beginning of the internet, and as far I remember, no capacitors discussions on them before my blog...

And in my quiet big town, the two electronic stores don't sell SMD capacitors...

So you were active on USENET and IRC too then? Web forums is a rather new invention in this context, you know.

[kolla]

Thomas Richter: you are aware that Minimig is being sold? And by companies like AmigaKit? And you are aware that most Minimigs will have at least one, and very often many kickstart files on SD cards along with ADF images of OS and games and whatever - and still Minimig is sold?! Isn't that shocking?!

[kolla]

This thread is not about selling Kickstart ROMs, I don't grasp why certain people, you included, keep bringing this up. We have softkicked and used all kinds of tricks through the years to kick with custom kickstarts, this product and others are just hardware that makes this process a little easier and more convenient. Why the big hoopla about licenses?!

[kolla]

I could not care less about original ROMs, I would flash all systems with my own custom kickstarts anyhow. I honestly do not understand this need to point out that selling kickstarts without licensing is illegal on a thread that is neither about selling kickstarts nor about selling EEPROMs with kickstarts. Follet's comment about dealers having issues with flashable kickstart replacements, because it potencially could be used to load unlicensed kickstarts, is just ridiculous- by same argument they should stop selling computer gear alltogether.

[kolla]

No, why would I pay extra for a kickstart image that I have zero use for to be preloaded? If anything is to be preloaded, let it be AROS/68k kickstart already.