On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 7:17 PM Sentrytv <sentrytv@yahoo.com> wrote:
Ethan Cant a person using and Amiga with a Gotek drive and a floppy drive, just Copy the Adf file to the Gotek drive and make a floppy disk? Including Kickstart and Workbench files?
I don't have a Gotek but I see no reason why that would 't work. There's nothing magical about a Kickstart disk except the first sector has a signature in it ("KICK") and starting with the second sector, it's a ROM dump. No run-at-kick-time code like a bootstrap, no filesystem. Raw blocks. The ROMs in an A1000 just make the WCS board writable, hoover in 256K of blocks to RAM, then lock the WCS RAM and reset. Voila! Kickstarted! $ hexdump -C Kickstart-Disk\ v1.1\ r31.34\ \(1985\)\(Commodore\)\(A1000\)\(NTSC\).adf | more 00000000 4b 49 43 4b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |KICK............| 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00000200 11 11 4e f9 00 fc 00 ce 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff |..N.............| 00000210 00 1f 00 22 ff ff ff ff 0d 0a 0a 41 4d 49 47 41 |...".......AMIGA| 00000220 20 52 4f 4d 20 4f 70 65 72 61 74 69 6e 67 20 53 | ROM Operating S| 00000230 79 73 74 65 6d 20 61 6e 64 20 4c 69 62 72 61 72 |ystem and Librar| 00000240 69 65 73 0d 0a 43 6f 70 79 72 69 67 68 74 20 28 |ies..Copyright (| 00000250 43 29 20 31 39 38 35 2c 20 43 6f 6d 6d 6f 64 6f |C) 1985, Commodo| 00000260 72 65 2d 41 6d 69 67 61 2c 20 49 6e 63 2e 0d 0a |re-Amiga, Inc...| . . . -ethan