AMIGA OS 3.1 on AMIGA 1000,possible?

[Blinx123]

Hi guys,
I just checked Ebay and I feel like buying an AMIGA 1000 but before I will buy it I would like to know if it is possible to install and use AMIGA OS 3.1 on it.

[djbase]

Its even possible to run AmigaOS 3.9 on it.

[redrumloa]

Yes but it is not easy like other models, you'd be better off with any newer model. A1000 is better for the oldest legacy stuff.

jmo

[Noster]

Hi,

in the Aminet you can find a hack to increase the size of the WOM, that is used to store the Kickstart, from 256 kb upto 512 kb:

http://main.aminet.net/hard/hack/512kWOM.lha

Noster

[Lando]

Yes an A1000 will run AmigaOS up to and including 3.9.  There was even a really cool video floating around the Net a while ago of an A1000 with a custom 3.9 ROM running 3.9.  I think Amiga Inc banned it or something though.

[cv643d]

Why did they ban a video of a hacked rom?

[redrumloa]

Lando wrote:
Yes an A1000 will run AmigaOS up to and including 3.9.  There was even a really cool video floating around the Net a while ago of an A1000 with a custom 3.9 ROM running 3.9.  I think Amiga Inc banned it or something though.

:roflmao:

[motorollin]

cv643d wrote:
Why did they ban a video of a hacked rom?

Cos they're tossers.

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moto

[JimS]

You might want to see if you can find a ROM switcher board for it. Or build one, I think there's a hack on Aminet. I have the  DKB Kwikstart board in my 1000. It has the 2.x ROM, so I don't see why 3.1 wouldn't work.

[Blinx123]

Ok thanks. One last question: Is it normal that the AMIGA 1000 is so yellow? I mean is the plastic so cheap, that it get´s yellow after a period? Or is the seller of it only a dirty pig? ;-)

[Waccoon]

Probably the latter.  My A1000 looks excellent for its age, and I got it second-hand in '88.

I can't say the same for my 1080 monitor.  The frame is OK, but the power button is pretty disgusting.  

[TjLaZer]

If you have a 2MB Fast RAM card attached to the A1000 you can load Kickstart 3.1 in RAM (also can load 1.3) and have a 3.1 A1000, see TwinKick.  I tried it and it works!