What do I need to burn my own Kickstart ROM's?

[motorollin]

Noster wrote:
You could purchase a KickFlashOS4 or a Romulus

...if you have Zorro slots. A1200s don't, so replacing the chip is the only option.

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moto

[coldfish]

iirc, there was a way of doing this using an old motherboard by fooling the mobo into thinking you were doing a bios update except the binary is a KS rom?

Dont quote me on that.

[darksun9210]

IIRC the two unused pins of the rom sockets are for larger capacity roms... so would it be possible to put USB stacks and other good things in there?

or am i pie in the skying it?  :lol:

[mr_a500]

There is software which can insert BlizKick modules or the OS>=3.5 ROM updates in to a 3.1 kickstart image. Burning them to a chip makes them available from cold boot and eliminates Setpatch and BlizKick reboots.

Yes double reboots are extremely annoying - especially if you have multiple bootable partitions and a double boot boots you into the wrong one (after already selecting the correct one from the early startup menu).

It would have been nice if they created new ROMs when 3.5 came out so double booting was unnecessary. Most people buying 3.5 had to go out and buy the 3.1 ROM anyway so why not buy 3.5 ROM instead? Maybe they had a load of old surplus 3.1 chips and they wanted to sell them instead of the expense of making new chips. Certainly now that there won't be any more ROM library updates, it would be nice if somebody produced a bunch of 3.9 ROMs with final versions of everything (with legal approval of course).

[motorollin]

mr_a500 wrote:
Certainly now that there won't be any more ROM library updates, it would be nice if somebody produced a bunch of 3.9 ROMs with final versions of everything (with legal approval of course).

This could be done legally. Someone with a large stock of 3.1 ROMs could amalgamate the 3.9 ROMUpdate in to a 3.1 ROM image, burn it to EPROMs, and supply the ROM chip with the EPROM. To make sure the ROM chips can't be used in another computer, the legs could be cut off. That way you purchase the ROM chip and AInc or whoever get their royalty, and the user gets an updated ROM chip ready for 3.9.

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moto

[c64_d0c]

good luck!
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