On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:24 PM Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:12 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
thanks. I have a beta version of 1.2 and a "gamma" version of 1.4.
I would expect both of those to work. I remember the 'gamma 1.4" and while I played with it, there was no compelling reason to use it. I switched to 2.04 when I got my Rejuvinator and that really extended the useful life of my A1000.
Otherwise I have no disks and will have to make them. My 1000 is very early, the dates on the chips are spring/summer of 85. It could be then that the disk drive is bad, the disks are bad, and/or I need to make a 1.1 Kickstart disk..
You could have dirty heads, bad disks, possibly a bad drive... there's no reason I know of that you'd be restricted to KS 1.1. No change in motherboard ROMs, no change in chips (original chips or EHB Denise, etc).
It sounds like you don't have another Amiga, even an A500 handy or you should be able to copy disks.
There's nothing magical about a Kickstart disk - identical low-level format to "regular" 880K Amiga disks, it just has a signature word at the front and contains a valid KS firmare image on the first 256 that all the A1000 ROMs know how to import.
-ethan
I have only Amigas with Kickstart ROMs, other than the 1000. I have a few disks from unknown origin that are both beta version of the the Kickstart disks, not official ones, and I have no idea if they ever worked. Obviously the drive could be bad, etc. I just wanted to see if anyone knew whether the very first 1000 required the very first kickstart disk or not. You never know. Bill