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From: mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (Linda Seebach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Booting 1.3 (Amiga 3000 compatibility)
Keywords: 3000
Message-ID: <3858@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 4 May 91 08:21:20 GMT
References: <11064@uwm.edu>
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In article <11064@uwm.edu> jwalsh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John Lawrence Walsh) writes:
>
>	Could anyone tell me how to boot 1.3 from my Amiga 3000?  There
>	is a partition on my hard drive called system1.3, but it doesn't
>	show up as an icon.  Also, is there any way currently that I
>	can run 100% of Amiga software (like a 68000 board or something)?
To boot 1.3: If you find a program which removes KickStart, use it and then
hold down both mouse buttons before it starts booting. Otherwise turn your
machine off (for at least n seconds, etc...) and then hold down both mouse
buttons for a while when you turn it on. After a while, you get a "Kickstart
Menu". Select Kickstart 1.3 - Hard Drive from this menu and your computer
should boot under 1.3..

As to why you can't see the partition: This is what *I* would consider
a bug in kickstart (no flames please) for the '3000. Each kick start knows
which hard drive partition to boot off of (wb_1.3: or wb_2.x:, respectively)
and knows to ignore the other. Now, there are probably a lot of people
out there who would disagree, but I reccommend taking a hex editor and
replacing, in kickstart 2, "wb_1.3" with "wb_1!3" and doing something
similar for kickstart 1.3... Note that, if you disable the drive that
*is* appropriate for a given kickstart, it will have to boot off a floppy.
This may, on occasion, be something you want...

And, if there's a 68000 board for the '3000, I'd *love* to see it. About
a third of the pd or purchased programs I've found over time actually run
on my computer. Sheesh! I think the '3000 was designed explicitly to test
programmers. Every bad programming habit I've ever seen will crash a '3000.

Note that this basically kills 90% of all expensive software. Especially
old Electronic Arts, and lots of Psygnosis games.

>				Thanks in advance
>
>					John Walsh
>					jwalsh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

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