Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.misc:769 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:6254 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: WB2.0 for non-A3000 Message-ID: <18781@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 11 Feb 91 01:36:14 GMT References: <1222@stca77.stc.oz> <824@cbmger.UUCP> <71748@becker.UUCP> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 33 In article <71748@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) writes: >|It actually DOES run on any Amiga. The only thing currently needed is Fast >|RAM as first autoconfigured device plus a utility program only available >|for registered developers and not for the public. But when it is in ROM, >|then every machine should work with it. > > I had the notion that the Kickstart 2.0 > image needed to load at address 0x200000. > There was once a version that could load > at 0xF00000, but that doesn't seem to have > been continued. All current non-A3000 versions of 2.0 are beta copies for developers only. They are not meant to be final consumer-usable versions (particularily in how they are loaded - ROMs are needed for consumer versions). F00000 versions are internal-only, and require a special memory board. > I'd love to get a version of zkick/Kickstart > which could load at an arbitrary address. > Several people I know have added memory at > 0xC00000, which would be handy to use. This will not happen - the code is relocated for a specific address. Close to all developers have access to at least one machine that can run current 2.0 beta releases, and if they don't they can get one easily. #include -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)