A500 - From 1.2 to 1.3 Rom

[mdv2000]

I have an Amiga 500 with Revision 5 and KickRom 1.2 - can I just order a 1.3 and change it out using a chip puller?

Thanks

[x303]

You should be able to do that, but you still lack the workbench 1.3 disk.
If you like os 1.3 that much, why not consider buying a Minimig ?

[color=ff0000]x303[/color] :-D  :-D  :-D

[Jope]

The wb1.3 disk doesn't really matter much, does it.. ;-)

But yeah, you just swap it in and that's it.

[Piru]

BTW Workbench 1.3 works just fine with KS 1.2.

The only reason to get KS 1.3 over 1.2 is to have working AUTOCONFIG(TM). KS 1.2 has is broken due to a silly bug. As far as I can tell that is about the only change in 1.2 to 1.3. As usual it was marketed as an upgrade.

[Flashlab]

Piru wrote:
As usual it was marketed as an upgrade.

C= marketing people had to eat too, you know...

[Thomas]

The must be at least one more change, because printer.device of WB 1.3 does not run on Kick 1.2. It just crashes.

Bye,
Thomas

[CLS2086]

I heard that some very very old need KS 1.2 to works well...
KS 1.2 is quite unusual, try to get a kickswitcher and put both rom on it.

[x303]

CLS2086 wrote:
try to get a kickswitcher and put both rom on it.

If you're gonna use a kickswitcher, why not put the 1.3 and 2.04 roms in ?

Or 2.05 and 3.1. :crazy:

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[mdv2000]

Does anyone know where I can get a Kickswitcher?  I like the idea of supporting more than ROM.

[Lockon_15]

http://www.amigamaniac.com/ksrs.html

[quarkx]

x303 wrote:
You should be able to do that, but you still lack the workbench 1.3 disk.
If you like os 1.3 that much, why not consider buying a Minimig ?

The Minimig is NOT an A500 to a lot of people, close, but no cigar. It lacks all of the charm that an A500 has to offer, and is similar to a placebo in nature. When the real things are so cheap to pick up, why anyone would want a knock off at 4X (or more) the price of an A500, and not even finished, is just plain crazy in my mind. But hey, maybe I am missing something here.
I would say the same thing about the A1000. The A1000 is NOT the A500, Although similar in nature, the 2 have completely different users.
Sorry, I am starting to hijack the thread.

[x303]

@quarkx

Sorry if I offended you. I myself own an a500 too !!! But, if I had to choose now (in 2009) between an a500 and a minimig I know what I want. And yes, the minimig might not be finished yet, but it can only get better.

[color=ff0000]x303[/color] :-D  :-D  :-D

[quarkx]

x303 wrote:
@quarkx

Sorry if I offended you. I myself own an a500 too !!! But, if I had to choose now (in 2009) between an a500 and a minimig I know what I want. And yes, the minimig might not be finished yet, but it can only get better.

[color=ff0000]x303[/color] :-D  :-D  :-D

No prob :-P
I wasn't offended, but the minimig is a whole different machine, that's all. it can't be compared to an A500 (or any Amiga model) in any way. It on EMULATES the roms (and the WHOLE hardware for that matter), it (for what ever reason the creator's chose) does not have actual,physical Roms, and therefore can not be evenly close, used to comparison. A person would be better off to use winAUE, because it amounts to the same thing, and WinAUE is a LOT cheaper.

[Rebel-CD32]

Lockon_15 wrote:
http://www.amigamaniac.com/ksrs.html

I have both the V1 and the V2 of these Kickstart switchers in an A500 and A600 and they're both excellent! And the A1200 I'm using right now has some EPROMs from the same site, working perfectly.

For an A500, I recommend you keep the 1.2 ROM and get a 3.1, and have them both on the Kickstart switcher. There's no need for 2.x if you can get 3.1 ROMs for the same price.