Amiga 3000 kickstart question

[melott]

amigadave wrote:

barney wrote:
Sombody here may be able to answer this qustion I have.  Is it better for me to softboot kickstart 3.1 or install kickstart 3.1 ROMS?  I read somewhere on the internet that installing the 3.1 ROMS makes the computer much slower and very unstable.  Somobody even said that they had to slow their MHZ down from 25 to 16.  If anybody has any input to this, I would appreciate it.

Barney

What you were told was a bunch of crap.

What AmigaDave said is correct.........

My A3000 was an SoftKicker when new.
I replaced the 1.4 roms with 3.1. roms and it runs great.
There was 'NO' slow-down or any other problems you
mentioned. It performs just like any other Amiga with
the hard-kick roms.


Before I changed to the 'Hard' roms I had all the soft-kick
rom images from 1.3 to 3.1.
You can't use just any rom image, the image requires the
bonus code attached. Using 'GrabKick' on a 3.1 rom won't
work.
My suggestion would be to install the 3.1 roms.
Unless you have a very special reason to be softkicking,
it isn't worth the trouble. To my knowledge all the games
etc. will run under the 3.1 rom, WHDLoad etc.

Mel

[melott]

Ratte wrote:

You can use a Blizzard 4030 @ 50Mhz ... and with softroms you are able to use Commodores Unix for the A3000.

I tend to doubt this, ( can't say for sure since I never
tried it).

I can't beleave how much erroneous info is floating around
about these particular Amigas. I've had mine since 1990,
(bought it new). I guess the reason for all the bad info
is there are really not that many of them around.

Mel