[vcf-midatlantic] Amiga 1000 (or any model) that needs a kickstart disk

[Bill Degnan]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:20 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at 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 at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 1:56 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic
> > <vcf-midatlantic at 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