Amiga Rom Disks

[Viper]

Hello all,

  I have decided to plunge back to my old days of the Amiga. I have been playing with PC for years now and con't remember the first thing about the Amiga's.

I have found some stuff out however there is one thing that is bugging me. When I had my original A1200 I had something call a Kick ROM disk (I think this is what it was called). It allowed me to boot the Amiga with the disk in the drive and then the A1200 would play games that were designed for the A500 and A600.

Can anyone tell me what these programms were called and where I can find them again.

Thanks in advance

Viper.    :-D

[shIva]

KICK ROM disk ? this would have been delivered with the first a1000's - not with the a1200 (the kickrom is on a chip in these).

[Viper]

Very confused, I used to remember you would put the disk in the drive and turn on the amiga it would load and then when it stopped you would see the old A500/A600 initial screen of a hand holding a disk. It was at this point you would be able to load all the old programs.

I think I got the disk off the front of an Amiga Format (or what ever it used to be called)

Anyone got any other ideas what this program was called?  :-?

[captainmoomoo]

I think it was a degrader

[Viper]

O.K a degrader sounds good to me  :-P  Does anyone know where to get hold of one of these?

[captainmoomoo]

try doing a search, maybe on aminet?

[zipper]

Relokick 1.3 or 1.4, but they aren't freely available anywhere I think.

[Ilwrath]

The only legal way to do this anymore, is to make the disk yourself.

For my A1200, SKICK (freely available on Aminet) is the program I use.  It has the rekick table for booting an A1200 with an A500 1.3 kickstart image.  The archive has full instructions on how to set up a disk.  That's the easy part.

Aminet SKICK link

The hard part is, this disk will also need a ROM DUMP from an Amiga 500 or 2000 with AmigaDOS 1.3.  Worse yet, you need to legally own the A500/2000 to be allowed to use the ROM information in this manner.  :-(

Now, that's the only legal way to do it.  But the old A500 1.3 kickstart ROM image that can be found on quite a few shady sections of the internet will also work fine in this setup.  Just download the SKICK package from Aminet, read docs, setup SKICK, and copy the .rom to the proper spot on your disk.  

[captainmoomoo]

If you need kickstart files, but dont have an amiga of your own from which to get them, buy the Amiga Forever 6.0 package from Cloanto. It's everything you need to emulate an Amiga on a PC, as well as all the different versions of Kickstart! Plus, emulation of Amigas is so good on a PC these days, I can't really think of why anybody would still want a classic Amiga! (I do want a new AmigaOne though