3.1 ROMs on ebay....

[Doobrey]

Lokki wrote:
I'm just wondering if these look legit to you?

Hmmm, looking back thru their ebay history they've sold quite a few.
The labels on their 40.63 ROMs aren't consistant



Then compare to the one on amiga-hardware.com

[Jope]

Bigdan, when did you last buy a kickstart rom set?

Thinking about it, I have seen that picture before but I seem to have forgotten all about it.. All the 3.1 ROMs I've ever had were EPROMs with varying kinds of stickers on top of them.

Actually one set I have is burned to PLCC proms with a personality module and a sticker with ESCOM copyrights:

http://jope.fi/ks31pm.jpg
http://jope.fi/ks31rev.jpg

Sorry for the blurry shots, that's just about the best the Canon A520's macro mode can do this close.

Unfortunately this set no longer works. As you can see, there are exposed pins on the back of the casing and they shorted against my RBM Tower case one time.. The Roms are 99% working, but a few bits have changed.

I have also had sets like this, which are indeed EPROMS with a full length sticker on top:
http://www.vesalia.de/thumbs/kickstart-1-thumb.jpg

Vesalia's details page no longer shows chips like that, but instead they have the MX Mask Roms.

Another set like that:
http://www.planetmulti.de/v2/pic/A4000_Motherboard_big.jpg

So.. Some have more professional looking stickers and some are just dot matrix printed to Avery sticker sheets. If you want to have a 100% legal kickstart, who do you trust?

[lionstorm]

@ BigDan :

I bought last week 3.1 ROMs for my A1200 from Vesalia and I paid 17.90 euros + 7.80 euros for shipping from Germany to France so this seller is not asking too much at 19.99 euros + 6 euros for postage.

Whether it is legal is another matter, of course !

[alexh]

I think that a lot of the companies had licenses to make their own after the mask roms ran out.

I found it strange that there is a 16-bit one marked 40.68 1997. Everyone knows that 40.63 is the widely distributed version.

[djbase]

I have also had sets like this, which are indeed EPROMS with a full length sticker on top:
http://www.vesalia.de/thumbs/kickstart-1-thumb.jpg

Vesalia's details page no longer shows chips like that, but instead they have the MX Mask Roms.

Another set like that:
http://www.planetmulti.de/v2/pic/A4000_Motherboard_big.jpg

These are original Kickstarts (they were sold with a kind of certificate), all other labels are selfmade (except laser of course).

[Lokki]

Wow. That was some can of worms right there.
Reckon I'll leave 3.1s on ebay alone until my head finishes spinning.