OS 3.5/3.9 on 3.0 ROM, is it possible?

[3vilc]

Hey all,
Just got back into the amiga scene, picked up an a1200 at a good price, only problem is it only has 3.0 roms and I would like to run amigaos 3.5 or 3.9 but getting hold of 3.1 roms here in new zealand seems virtully impossible.  Is it possible to softkick a 3.1 rom image?  Can anyone point to anywhere to obtain roms in NZ?

A1200HD 030 @30mhz, 2mb chip 8mb fast ram, surfsquirrel scsi2/serial controller, scsi cdrom

Thanks in advance for any advice,
Clive

[motrucker]

The 3.0 ROMs stink, plain & simple. There are mail order houses that will ship to you. Software Hut (www.softhut.com) here the States sells the 3.1 ROMs, has them in stock, and will ship world wide. I am sure there are other places. It's worth the hassle.

[Darklight]

Hey 3vilc.

Good to see some more NZ Amiga owners on here  :-)
Yes, it is possible to softkick to 3.1 using your 1200.  It's not a hard process, and it doesn't add too much time to your startup.  However, obtaining the Rom image is a bit of a tricky situation.  Because the Kickstart Roms are still copyrighted ( :lol: not quite sure who owns the ip for the roms now, after Commodore and Amiga have changed hands so many times  :lol: ), it is considered breach of copyright and illegal to download roms.  I'm fairly certain that it's deemed ok if you actually own a hard version of the rom you're downloading, but since you don't own the 3.1 roms, strictly you shouldn't download them.  If you get an image from it by some other means, however, you'll be wanting to use skick to softkick.

Skick
Throw the skick executable into Sys:C and then another copy of it into your Utilities drawer or wherever is convenient, and then add the line to the startup -
Skick devs:kickstarts\kick40068.A1200 QUIET
or something similar to that as the first command and it will throw it into ram and boot from it without ever showing the kick 3.0.

If you want to grab hard copies of the kick 3.1 roms, AnythingAmiga in Australia has them in stock.  
Here

Hope that helps.  :-)