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From: valentin@public.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Workbench 2.0 for Amiga 1000
Message-ID: <2662@public.BTR.COM>
Date: 2 May 91 08:47:06 GMT
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In article <834.281c071c@zodiac.rutgers.edu> amatthews@zodiac.rutgers.edu
writes:
>
>I read somewhere (some Amiga magazine, I can't remember which) that
>although Workbench 2.0 is not currently Amiga 1000 compatable, that
>Commodore was planning some type of work-around that would allow the
>1000 to use it too.  The magazine did not specify anything at all about
>just how this would take place.  Does anyone know more about this?

No magic is required to run 2.0 on an A1000. I do that quite often using
ZKick and a kickstart image.

It might actually be a good idea for CBM to not only sell 2.0 ROMs, but
also a disk with a 2.0 Kickstart image on it. You see, replacing the ROMs
might cost an end user as much as $100, while 512K of ram, the amount stolen
by the Kickstart image, costs only $25. Forthermore, that would allow
customers to boot under 1.3 or 2.0, as they please.

In fact, it is irrelevant whether CBM is going to distribute 2.0 on disk or
not. It is trivial to read a Kickstart image from ROMs and put it on disk.
And ZKick is freely distributable. Either CBM shrink-wraps 2.0 disks along with
with some nicely printed manuals, or people will pirate in droves.

Valentin
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