Using Kickstart 3.1 rom chips...

[EDS.bod]

Let me tell you a story.

My Towered A1200 died a few weeks ago complete with OS3.9 and 3.1 roms.  This I'm not too bothered about as I've ordered an AmigaOneXE-G4 and I thought I'd just use UAE to run all my old legacy software.

One hitch though, I forgot that I'd need a rom image for UAE.
Now, as my A1200 is dead, I can't get an image of the 3.1 rom so I'm going to order a second hand A1200 from e-bay.
Next problem is that I've already sold the accelerator, HD, SD/FF and tower, so I won't be able to install OS3.9.

Can I just put the 3.1 roms in the working A1200 and grab the image or do I need workbench 3.1 as well?
I also have a CDTV so I'm o.k. for 1.3 roms.

Can anyone give me advice for extracting the roms?

Sorry for all the questions, thanks in advance.

[Coder]

Hi,

You can use transrom to make that rom file.  Maybe boot with a disk with transrom on it and then grab a copy to the disk. Should work.

Coder

[EDS.bod]

So it should be fine then to install the 3.1 roms when if I only have the workbench 3.01 disks then?

I take it transrom comes with the UAE package?  

So i'd have to move the transrom utility to a dos disk (to get it off the AmigaOne) and then dump the rom image to a dos formatted disk and bring that image back to the AmigaOne.  Linux can format disk in dos mode, can't it?

I take it then, that I can't dump a rom image from the 1.3 rom in the CDTV seeing as 1.3 doesn't have cross dos?

[Coder]

Well, you need a Amiga 1200 (or any other Amiga wich can have the roms in it you want to grab) and then have the roms in it, then boot with a bootable Amiga disk with transrom (comes with the emulator) and run the program that will write the image to a file on the disk.

But you need to run crossdos to write it to a "pc" (yuk) floppy.

Can you get a copy from someone else if you have the roms yourself but cannot get the romfile? Anyone?

Coder

[ruffneck]

buy AmigaForever cdrom from Cloanto;) there are many different legal rom images and other useful stuff for emulating etc.

[odin]

eds.bod: check your email ;-).

[EDS.bod]

@Odin

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction mate :-)

Now all I have to do is learn how to use Linux (never used it, suppose now is as good as time as any to learn) and try and get UAE running (again - never used it).

odin wrote:
eds.bod: check your email ;-).