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From: aliu@aludra.usc.edu (Alex C. Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Booting from EPROMS?
Summary: Not using Floppies to boot
Keywords: Replace the ROM
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Date: 2 May 91 22:17:39 GMT
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In article <1176@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>In article <1909c537.ARN0fa1@cbmami.UUCP> jason@cbmami.UUCP writes:
>>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

Why bother with all that?  Cant you just replace the Commodore
provided ROMs with your own ROM.  After all, those games dont require
multitasking, and usually Amiga game programmers kick out the OS
anyways, so why leave it there and put your own?  (You can always put
your own OS like routines, and if it is as all those game programmers
claim, you will do it anyways!

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