New Kickstart 3.9.1 68k on the way

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Whatever happened to pOS from ProDAD?

Good question!  From everything I've heard/seen of it, it looked sweet.  I could have sworn I tried it out at one point.  I think I had seen a beta disk of it somewhere.  

I also think Scalos could use some improvements.

Back on topic; it would be SO nice to have a new kickstart so that there aren't so many BoingBags to install after an initial setup.  I had always wondered if it would be somehow possible to have a replacement ROM kit that added EEPROM capability.  I know on the old Atari ST, I would have killed for that.  

Then all we'd need is a firmware update program, and wouldn't have to patch things in startup-sequence, requiring a reset.

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Flash adapter would be perfect. You could have some different ones on one flash, maybe even boot right in to WHDLoad.

I was thinking along these lines, have a board that you plug your original ROMs into, then have an FPGA or something on there holding the rest of the patches, so we don't have monstrous startup-sequence files like we currently do.

A lot of stuff could go in there.  In fact, maybe we could have something similar to how the Aroma installer for Android works.  An installation wizard that asks 'do you have USB?' then installs poseidon into the boot block, then we could get USB boot support.

Not sure how well that would work, but it would be sweet.

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