watcher wrote:
What are the roms for? When i used to have an A1200 the workbench was just on some floppy's?!
So do those roms contain the OS (workbench) or are they just a firmware update thats necassary for OS 3.9 to run?
The simplest way to look at it is that the core of the OS - the stuff that doesn't really need to change that often - is on the motherboard's ROM chips. The Workbench disk just has the extra utilities and libraries that "flesh out" the OS and set up/store your preferences, etc.
For best results, you need to have the same Kickstart (ROM) and Workbench (disk) versions, except for OS 3.5 and 3.9, which both run on Kickstart 3.1 ROMs.
