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From: 4225_5105@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Kickstart??
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.180817.8395@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 25 Jan 91 23:08:17 GMT
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In article <674@tnc.UUCP>, m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT) writes:
> In article <42035@nigel.ee.udel.edu> fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
>>So far as I know, the only way to put Kickstart in RAM is to have a
>>68020/30 and to use Dave Haynie's SetCPU program, which, when used with
>>the FASTROM flag, copies the Kickstart ROM to 32-bit RAM, which makes a
>>lot of things go a lot faster. Of course, with a 68000 A500, the matter
>>is moot--get the 1.3 ROM!
>>                                                --Rick Wrigley
>>                                                fhwri@conncoll.bitnet
> 
> 
> Not True!  The LUCAS/FRANCES pd accellerator for the Amiga 1000 will
> also remap the ROM image into fast ram.  It does so by providing an
> program to move the ROM data, set a flip-flip to translate the
> addresses in the memory addressing hardware, and off you go!  As far
> as I know, Dave's SetCPU program only works on systems with a MMU.
> 
> Wildstar

There are two other programs that load kickstart into memory.
kickit by Bryce Nesbitt and
zkick by developer Dan Zenchelsky.
both of these programs are on the developer's release of 2.0 for
developers.  They are both for putting kickstart 2.0 in ram so I 
have no idea if they would work on any other kickstart.

The basic requirement is that you have a autoconfiguring RAM board at
$200000.

john macdonald