Amiga os 3.9 boot disk
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I want to get Kickstart 3.1 and 3.1.4 roms working on this system, so to do this I need to create a superkickstart 3.1 rom to start with. You are limited to the 68030 onboard as it needs the MMU on the 030 to function.ĭo I want an 060 accelerator on the A3000? Yes, I think I do - I have one available. Yes, that is the other gotcha with the 1.4 beta kickstart - no 040 or 060 support.
#Amiga os 3.9 boot disk code#
Not sure if I will retain the super-kickstart roms and softkick 3.1.4 with bonus code or just drop in the 3.1.4 roms to get the higher capacity hard disk support and support for 040 and 060 processor upgrades. I later plan to purchase AmigaOS 3.1.4 for the Amiga 3000 so I can use it on this system. So you can't just copy the kickstart off the disk using the Shell, etc, either - there is a procedure to do this but more on this later.Īt power on you can hold both mouse buttons down to select which kickstart you want to boot (if detected on the attached hard disk) or to boot 1.3 or 2.x kickstart from a Super-kickstart floppy. The kickstarts are directly written to the disk and is not a file (similar to the Amiga 1000), and the disk is non-DOS.
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To deal with the obvious problem of what happens when the hard disk fails or someone deletes the important kickstart files from the hard disk, Amiga 3000 systems with the Beta kickstart 1.4 were given a special "Super-kickstart" floppy disk with them, which contains the 2.0.4 and 1.3 kickstart roms with bonus code. This is not supplied with the 2.0, 3.1 and 3.1.4 kickstarts supplied with the standard Workbench floppy sets. But the kickstart file needs to have the bonus code attached to work. The functionality though is very clever, and it means that you can have 3.1 kickstart or even 3.1.4 kickstart roms "soft kicked" on the A3000 with this design.
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The partition volumes once formatted can be labelled however you want. In addition the partition device names containing the super-kickstart files must be called WB_1.3 and WB_2.x to be detected by 1.4 kickstart (instead of the usual DH0, DH1, etc). If the kickstart file on the hard disk does not contain the bonus code, the 1.4 kickstart will not detect it and will not allow you to boot from it. This "super-kickstart" file (as it is known) is then put in the Devs drawer on the relevant WB_1.3 or WB_2.0 partition to be detected by the 1.4 kickstart at power on. It is patched onto the normal kickstart file after the normal end of the file. To facilitate this on the A3000, the kickstart supplied with the Amiga 3000 includes what is called "bonus code" to support these functions. A2091) and 030 accelerator card have this 1.3 support built into the cards to work with a normal 1.3 kickstart. A number of these features don't fit within the normal 1.3 kickstart rom size of 256k or the 2.0/3.1 kickstart rom size of 512k.Įspecially important is the normal 1.3 kickstart rom doesn't support SCSI devices or 030 operation. The Amiga 3000 has special needs for the kickstart (to support SCSI onboard, 030, etc) compared to other Amiga models. Later Amiga 3000 systems were shipped with a normal Kickstart 2.04 rom installed.Īctually, this Super-kickstart 1.4 rom softkicking is a very cool feature.
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If the kickstart rom is present as Devs/Kickstart on the partitions labelled with Device Name WB_1.3 or WB_2.x, it then softkicks the the higher priority partition (usually WB_2.x) containing the relevant kickstart rom, reboots, boots from that partition and automatically disables the other drive from view. This special kickstart rom looks for a normal 1.3 or 2.x kickstart rom on the SCSI hard disk included with the Amiga 3000. Instead they came with Beta (!) Kickstart v1.4 roms instead.
#Amiga os 3.9 boot disk full#
On early Amiga 3000 systems, they didn't come with the normal full kickstart rom (ie. I decided to use my Amiga 2000 keyboard for the time being since my Amiga 2000 has an issue with the mouse port that means I can't use it at the moment.
#Amiga os 3.9 boot disk manuals#
With that done, I then turned my attention to learn more about this Super-kickstart stuff as I have never had to deal with it on Amiga systems, and unfortunately there were no disks or manuals included with the system (or keyboard for that matter!).