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Re: Kickstart switch for A3000?
« Reply #14 from previous page: May 20, 2013, 02:39:32 AM »
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No they're not. I got mine on a disk that came with my A3000, named "Kickstart 40.70 A3000" which also included maprom and maprom.doc. As I understand it though the most stable version is the 40.68 where the only change to 40.70 is the scsi.device (v40.12 to v40.20). I wanted the 40.68 so I grabbed it from Amiga Forever with Amiga Explorer and cut and pasted the extra "bonus-code" that A3000 needs into a new 40.68 kickstart-file.
I bought and installed 3.1 (40.68) hardware kickstart now from Vesalia, which did have badly slapped on labels. I miss though to have the option to boot directly into 1.3 like I do with my A500 and a kickstartswitch.


Hi I have Amiga forever latest version and i have the physical 3.1 amiga os disks. So what do I need to do to get this kickstart file? How do i make it or where is it located? Thanks a lot.  What is the "bonus-code" btw?
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Re: Kickstart switch for A3000?
« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2013, 05:27:47 AM »
First of all, the roms in AF are encrypted, so you need to load them into a WinUAE-enviroment and extract it either with a command in the enviroment or connect Amiga Explorer to it and get the kickstart out. Load the exact same version in WinUAE as you have already a superkickstart of. Then you can do a byte by byte comparison with the superkickstart you have. I opened them up in Funduc Software Hex Editor for example. An ordinary 512k ROM ends with offset 524287=0x7ffff bits=00011111 unsigned B:31 (1f). Last four bits: "00:1e:00:1f". Now open up the superkickstart version of the same version and go to the same offset. You will find the "00:1e:00:1f" in that too, however that's not the last line in it. The rest following it until the end is the "bonus code". I just used that bonus code and cut and pasted it into a 3.1 (40.68) at the end of it. The resulting file should be 526 572 bytes.
 

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Re: Kickstart switch for A3000?
« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2013, 04:13:29 AM »
Wow after I do all that I can go get a job at Cern.. thats a little too much for me to do :( i'm not that smart. Do you still have the ones you made?
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Re: Kickstart switch for A3000?
« Reply #17 on: June 02, 2013, 02:09:42 AM »
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Re: Kickstart switch for A3000?
« Reply #18 on: June 02, 2013, 07:08:29 AM »
3000D, nice. Picking up some amigas later today myself. maybe we can swap restoration tales :)

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And how do you do this in detail please?


Guys I have an a3000D i'm restoring and it has the 1.4 kickstart roms. The HD died so can someone please please give me a guide on how to get 3.1 installed on the machine softkicked? (I have the 2.04 install and kickstart disks that came with the machine. ) I'm confused how to make the magick happen :)
I gots me a Video Toaster...where do I put the bread in ?!?! :confused: