Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Amiga 1000 (or any model) that needs a kickstart disk
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:20 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Amiga 1000 Was not made with kickstart in ROM.
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On Mar 12, 2021, at 2:08 PM, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 1:56 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
For those who know, if my Amiga 1000 has v 1.1 ROMS, will it only boot with a 1.1. kickstart disk?
If your Amiga is asking for a Kickstart disk (i.e., it has a WCS board not Kickstart in ROM), then it should work with any version of Kickstart from 1.0 to 1.3. 2.0 is too large to fit on the WCS board so that's when a bunch of us got ROM expanders to use an A500/A2000 Kickstart ROM chip. Some people also converted the WCS RAM to be extra RAM, I think, but that was a bit of a hack.
-ethan
Sorry The ROMS say v1.1 on them but they're not "kickstart" ROMs. here are pictures, which speak a 1024 words (or more) https://www.vintagecomputer.net/commodore/amiga_1000/ Bill
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:25 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:20 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Amiga 1000 Was not made with kickstart in ROM.
My (recent) understanding is that PAL A1000s _did_ come with Kickstart in ROM, not a WCS board, but I don't have one of those to confirm. I expect that Bill has the same sort of Amiga that the rest of us in the States had (the pictures confirm it) - factory stock with ROMs that are only smart enough to load a KS disk into the WCS board.
If your Amiga is asking for a Kickstart disk (i.e., it has a WCS board not Kickstart in ROM), then it should work with any version of Kickstart from 1.0 to 1.3...
Sorry The ROMS say v1.1 on them but they're not "kickstart" ROMs.
I don't know of anyone who has tracked what ROM versions there are for the A1000. I don't know how many versions there might be but they all do the same thing - load Kickstart.
here are pictures, which speak a 1024 words (or more)
That looks like an entirely standard US A1000. Those ROMs are only smart enough to load Kickstart. You will need a good drive and a good disk to proceed. -ethan
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:31 PM Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:25 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:20 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Amiga 1000 Was not made with kickstart in ROM.
My (recent) understanding is that PAL A1000s _did_ come with Kickstart in ROM, not a WCS board, but I don't have one of those to confirm.
I expect that Bill has the same sort of Amiga that the rest of us in the States had (the pictures confirm it) - factory stock with ROMs that are only smart enough to load a KS disk into the WCS board.
If your Amiga is asking for a Kickstart disk (i.e., it has a WCS board not Kickstart in ROM), then it should work with any version of Kickstart from 1.0 to 1.3...
Sorry The ROMS say v1.1 on them but they're not "kickstart" ROMs.
I don't know of anyone who has tracked what ROM versions there are for the A1000. I don't know how many versions there might be but they all do the same thing - load Kickstart.
here are pictures, which speak a 1024 words (or more)
That looks like an entirely standard US A1000. Those ROMs are only smart enough to load Kickstart. You will need a good drive and a good disk to proceed.
-ethan
thanks for confirming. I have a catweasel that I can use to make new disks. Bill
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