Amigakit Rom Switcher

[QuillOmega0]

I have a question on: http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=947

I suspect at least someone else here has one so here it goes...

Will this work in a A500 Rev. 5 on it's own? or Will I have to modify the Kickstart ROMs to work with it?

[QuillOmega0]

Sounds to me that you dont quite know what this device is for?
It lets you change between two kickstart chips by pressing ctrl-a-a for more than 5secs, so you can for example have both 1.3 and 3.1 kickstart and shift between those. There is no need to modify the kickstart roms.

Misunderstood what I meant. (I do know what the Kickstart switcher does, switches Kickstarts. )

On Rev 5 motherboards, if you're putting a Kickstart (I believer greater than 1.3) you need to short a couple pins, and rewire another for compatibility.

I was wondering if the same had to be applied to the Kickstart ROM switcher, or would shorting the jumper on the lowerleft corner of it, make the changes so I wouldn't have to rewire the Kickstart ROM.

[QuillOmega0]

The Amigakit switcher has a jumper you can set if you have a rev5 board, so you don't need to solder the wire onto the chip.

But yeah, they're still in business, why not ask them next time instead of making us do their product support for them. ;-)

Did, their reply:

The jumper is to allow further EEPROMs and non-mask ROMs  to be used with this board.

Now I'll admit, that's pretty hard for me to understand the exact meaning of that.
But thanks for everybody's help, and I'lll see how it goes when I get the switcher in and installed.

[QuillOmega0]

Perfectly explained AppleHammer

Thanks for your information everybody. I'll know more when I get to installing it.