Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.misc:3861 comp.sys.amiga.programmer:3809 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!convex.cl.msu.edu!jap From: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: So, how close is WB2.0 to a burn-in date? Message-ID: <1991May22.191722.20379@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 22 May 91 19:17:22 GMT References: <1991May20.170355.19033@coplex.uucp> <1991May22.145109.2627@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991May22.161900.26502@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 27 es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >In article <1991May22.145109.2627@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) writes: >> >>There is no reason not to have 2.0 on all amigas (including CDTV). >>The only difference between game players and power users is the hardware >>and software addons they buy for their machines. > That's not really true. CDTV, running under a variant of >1.3, uses a 512K kickstart with special routines on it, so you >can't just plug in a 2.0 kickstart. And considering that 2.0KS is >already totally filled, there would be no room for the CDTV >specific code. Well, okay if you going to be picky about it..... I believe that the original memory map for the Amiga left space for 1 meg of roms. So even if its not immediatly physically possble, it is certainly technically possible [for CBM at least] to put KS2.0+CDTV specific stuff into roms and into CDTV's. THis is not to say that they willl, but they certainly could. Do Amiga500's and Amiga2000's have an extra ROM socket to hold 2.0 in? If not I'm sure we will soon see ROM extender hacks to allow people to put 512k 2.0ROMS in those machine. Hopefully this will happen for A1000s too, since I own one :-)