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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Kickstart Loader for 2000's?
Keywords: Using old kickstarts in amiga 500's and 2000's
Message-ID: <1241@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 89 15:52:25 GMT
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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I'm getting ready to get an amiga 2000. I currently have the 1000 that I have
owned since 1985. I also have several games that won't work on kickstart 1.2 or
1.3. On my 1000, it's no problem, just pop in the old kickstart disk. But what
can you do with the 500 or the 2000?


I sure would hate to lose the use of those programs and games. So I got to
wondering.....

Is there a program out there that disables the built in ROMs on the newer
Amiga's and allows you to boot with a kickstart disk? If not, why not? ...
I mean... we can disable the OS in order to emulate a MSDOS machine or a
MacIntosh, so why not an earlier version of the Amiga OS?

It would eat up extra ram, of course, but it sure would be nice, wouldn't it?
I am not the only one who has wanted something like this. so I am asking you
all: *IS* there such a beastie? what's it called, and where is it?




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