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[Cosmos]

New small hardware available for A4000 & A3000 : Romy

The function of Romy is very simple : it allow a new 512 KB block space for Kickstart

So with Romy plugged on Fat Gary, we have now 1 MB Kickstart available for A3000 & A4000 !


More informations :

- A4000 : http://leblogdecosmos.blogspot.fr/20...omy-a4000.html

- A3000 : http://leblogdecosmos.blogspot.fr/20...omy-a3000.html


A batch of Romy is for sale 17 € including Priority shipping worldwide. Contact me by email !

[yssing]

would it work on an A1200 as well?

[Zac67]

No Fat Gary in A1200, mate...

[SpeedGeek]

Originally Posted by yssing

would it work on an A1200 as well?

No, it won't work but the A1200 already supports 1MB Kickstart ROMs.

[ognix]

Good job!

[Astral]

How does this work? I mean, you fit this little board and then what? The normal kickstart sockets can now magically fit kickstart chips twice the size?

It's not really that clear.

[Cosmos]

Once Romy fitted on Fat Gary, you can now install a new 1 MB Kickstart on the two rom sockets

[danbeaver]

Originally Posted by Cosmos

Once Romy fitted on Fat Gary, you can now install a new 1 MB Kickstart on the two rom sockets

Where would I find an example to build a 1 meg ROM from rom modules and then properly assemble them to correctly burn the EPROMs? What EPROMS are used?

[Darrin]

So, assuming I fit one of these to my A4000, are there any home-made KS3.2+ ROMs out there that I could "aquire", and if so, what features would they add to my A4000?

I'd love a Kickstart that would have PFS3 native for large HDs, CD ROM support native, etc.

[nicholas]

Originally Posted by Darrin

So, assuming I fit one of these to my A4000, are there any home-made KS3.2+ ROMs out there that I could "aquire", and if so, what features would they add to my A4000?

I'd love a Kickstart that would have PFS3 native for large HDs, CD ROM support native, etc.

Do you have a Deneb in your A4000 Darrin?

I'm due to put my A3000 back together soon and will be using the flash ROM on my Deneb to hold my custom kickstart.

This nifty piece of hardware does look nice though.

[Zac67]

Originally Posted by Darrin

I'd love a Kickstart that would have PFS3 native for large HDs,

You can easily put PFS3 in RDB, no need to ROM it.

[ChaosLord]

Originally Posted by Darrin

I'd love a Kickstart that would have PFS3 native for large HDs, CD ROM support native, etc.

You can/should store PFS3 into your Rigid Disk Block (RDB) of your hard drive that way it is available the instant you turn on your computer. Commodore did a lot of things right and that was one of them!

Can anyone make a list of things that are useful to add into this new 1MB ROM?

Like what are all the things needed to 100% overcome the 4GB HD limit?

Someone should make a selection of custom ROMs for different machines.

As far as A1200s go, the perfect ultimate 1MB ROM depends on which accelerator you are using.

There are certain things that every machine needs added into the ROM.
But there are other things that are specific to certain hardware configs.

[fryguy]

Having KingCon in (EEP)ROM would be neat.

[Mrs Beanbag]

I'd like a ROM: drive so you can boot into a minimal WB without any disks. and all the basic CLI commands.

[ChaosLord]

Originally Posted by Mrs Beanbag

I'd like a ROM: drive so you can boot into a minimal WB without any disks. and all the basic CLI commands.

When optimized versions of the commands are used, all the standard CLI commands are very tiny.

So it seems reasonable to have a standard AmigaDOS cli command set be RESIDENT inside the 1MB ROM, assuming you don't use the extra 1MB for all sorts of fancy libraries, or MUI or something.