Remus 0.85 public beta

[Doobrey]

Just in time for Xmas, something to play with when you're stuff full of mince pies and sherry.
Remus is a tool to split and rebuild Kickstart ROM images for users of UAE and classic Amigas with Kickflash boards, allowing OS3.5/3.9 to boot without the usual reboots.

Basically, it splits up a 3.1 Kickstart (A3000 currently unsupported) and lets you replace various residents with their updated versions from the 3.5/3.9 RomUpdate file, add in BlizKick modules and rebuild it into a new Kickstart image.
More info and screen grabs
Download page

[Nickman]

WOHO!! this is what i was trying to get from Individual computers.

Look here

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sweet!

[CD32Freak]

@Doobrey

What a great idea, good job! :-)

By the way. You are one clever individual,   discovering you could add another LED to an A1200/A600 for the PCMCIA port: http://www.doobreynet.co.uk/extraled.html :-)

[leirbag28]

@Doobrey


 Wow! I se you working on a Clockport MP3 player!

Please finish this.......May I make some suggestions?

How about Adding 2 decoder chips to be able to decode 2 MP3's at once!   WHy you ask?    so that You would have the First MP3 decoder that you can DJ with!   so one can take his A600 or A1200 to a Party, and throw the entire party from your Amiga!

if possible, Also enable it to decode MPEG1 VideoCD

Will this run on a Plain A600 with a Clockport?  The MASlayer works fine on my A600 at 7mhz with 1mb.   This is important, as your MP3 player wll sell more because no one has to upgrade to use it.

Also how about is using the masmpeg.device instead of MHI?   MHI sucks (AMPlifier plays better with masmpeg.device, than AmigaAMP with MHI).  or a least have both options.

Also the opton t use it from Clockport, or Parrallel port.  Ad when in Clockport........is compatible wit the MASPlayer hardware s tha now you can decode 3 MP3's at once!  WooHoo!

In my opinion........a Floppy port MP3 decoder is better than a Parrallel one.........so that one can have a DSS8+ plugged into the Parrallel and digitize samples from MP3's !  Yeeeehaawww!!!!

Please finish this project!

Im loading my A600 wth MP3's currently.......I hope to throw a New Years party this week with it!

[Dr_Righteous]

Let me get this straight... Say I were to build one of those DIY A500 IDE kits. Build a ROM image with the driver installed... Then (after buring a new ROM of course) make it bootable?

[Framiga]

a lot of useful stuff on your site, Doobrey! thanks a lot :-)

[Doobrey]

CD32Freak wrote:
You are one clever individual, discovering you could add another LED to an A1200/A600 for the PCMCIA port:

Not really, C= did all the hard work, I just spotted they left out 50p worth of parts and marked that part of the schematics as 'optional'.

[Doobrey]

leirbag28 wrote:
How about Adding 2 decoder chips to be able to decode 2 MP3's at once!

 It's gonna be a while yet, way too much work right now to spend as much time on it as I'd like. I got all the bits, just no time to stick it together
 Anyway, I'd be easier to build a clockport splitter and add 2 cards.
 

Will this run on a Plain A600 with a Clockport? The MASlayer works fine on my A600 at 7mhz with 1mb. This is important, as your MP3 player wll sell more because no one has to upgrade to use it.

 Running it on an a600 should just be a couple of changes in the driver, IIRC the A600 clockport adapter has a different addressing scheme compared to the A1200.
 But as I said on the site, when I've finished the damn thing it won't be for sale, but freely available as schematics and source code.

In my opinion........a Floppy port MP3 decoder is better than a Parrallel one.........so that one can have a DSS8+ plugged into the Parrallel and digitize samples from MP3's ! Yeeeehaawww!!!!

 Maybe you should get in touch with Jens Schoenfeld about his unreleased Atlantis

[Doobrey]

Dr_Righteous wrote:
Say I were to build one of those DIY A500 IDE kits. Build a ROM image with the driver installed... Then (after buring a new ROM of course) make it bootable?

 It's possible, it all depends on the driver. If it can scan the IDE bus and automount drives then yes.
 Even if it can't, it should be possible to write a mounter to include in the rom..but there are downsides to this, the mounter would be specific to the drive (unless it somehow wrapped a mountlist inside it), and you'd need to burn a new ROM if you changed a drive.

[Dr_Righteous]

There's always that flashrom interface... But failing that, that's what UV lights are for.

[Minuous]

It doesn't recognize my KS3.1 nor my AmigaOS ROM Update :-(

Has someone made a KS3.9 (KS3.1+OS3.9+BB1+BB2), or is everyone having this problem? Else anyone have a download link?

[Doobrey]

@Minuous
 There are updates on my beta download page.
 If you're still having problems please email me (address in the Remus guide) with more details (machine type, exact kickstart version etc)..
 But as for not being able to split the ROMUpdate that's a new one on me, others have reported success with it.

[Minuous]

OK, I'll give the updated version a try...thanks Doobrey...

[Minuous]

Still no joy :-(

@Doobrey: I'll email you a bug report tonight...