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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Booting from EPROMS?
Message-ID: <1176@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 91 14:57:59 GMT
References: <1909c537.ARN0fa1@cbmami.UUCP>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1909c537.ARN0fa1@cbmami.UUCP> jason@cbmami.UUCP writes:
>
>	I have a customer who is a comercial video game manufactuer, who
>has reached an agreement to produce stand-alone video games using A500
>motherboards.  There programers are busy getting up to speed on the Amiga,
>but one of their concerns is how they will be able to boot off an EPROM
>rather than a floppy disk.  Their machines will not have floppies!

The only thing I can do is assure you that it is possible. One german
company (sorry, forgot the name) sells (sold?) an EPROM drive on a
normal A2000 card. I think you could fake a harddisk device during the
autoconfig process and you have to provide a hddisk.device or similar
handler that accesses your EPROMs just like a harddisk. Perhaps this is
easier than I think. That mentioned card could hold the whole Workbench.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk