Madgun68 wrote:
Remember that ROM means READ Only Memory. Just look at the kickstart. You can save that off to disk and even modify it or softkick it. Same deal applies here.. They could modify OS4 to load the rom image from disk and access it from ram.
True, but the original thread implied that the ROM itself was modified. I'd certainly be impressed by that feat of hackery :-D.
Apart from that, I seriously wonder about the feasibility of softkicking these modern machines. We're talking the
boot ROM here. That is not the same as the
Kickstart ROM. Besides which, the old Amigas allowed softkicking thanks to continuous RAM refresh and resident memory areas, the Cold-, Cool- and WarmCapture-offsets deep in ExecBase, and a very interesting library call called SetFunction(). I have strong suspicions all this functionality has been removed. I would have, if I were to develop AmigaOS 4.
No, methinks the best way would be to extract the code in the boot ROM, modify it, burn it back onto an EEPROM, and bypass the protections that way. (Provided the EEPROM is electrically compatible too!) Far too much hassle for the casual user, in any case. (There was a thread about someone ripping the ROM's socket from the motherboard not too long ago.) Then I also suspect that it will not be easy to boot your illegally acquired machine-readable, deprotected version of AmigaOS 4, as it assumes either a forgiving boot ROM, or that you are already running some OS. And that brings up the softkicking problems again. Double if the machine has set up MMU tables.
Doable, yes. Easy, no.
As far as the DMCA goes.. That's US law. Aminet isn't limited to US servers you know.
Your point...? :-D
