Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.misc:3865 comp.sys.amiga.programmer:3818 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!ceres.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!vaxf.iastate.edu!XGR39 From: xgr39@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: So, how close is WB2.0 to a burn-in date? Message-ID: <1991May22.223035.24477@news.iastate.edu> Date: 22 May 91 22:30:35 GMT References: <1991May20.170355.19033@coplex.uucp> <1991May22.145109.2627@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991May22.161900.26502@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>,<1991May22.191722.20379@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: xgr39@isuvax.iastate.edu Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Lines: 49 In article <1991May22.191722.20379@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) writes: >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. For putting the OS 2.0 ROM into a CDTV, I have a better alternative to the idea of doing an internal upgrade. The socket for the Personal RAM/ROM cards can use cards with either 64K of RAM or 512K of ROM. So, put the 512K OS 2.0 Kickstart onto a Personal ROM Card and sell it for the CDTV. You could then just pop the OS 2.0 ROM into your CDTV without doing an internal upgrade. > >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. Such a hack is not needed. The ROM socket in A500s and A2000s has enough address lines for a 512K ROM. With the old 256K ROM, this address line was not used. So you can just pop in the 512K ROM and it will work. > >Hopefully this will happen for A1000s too, since I own one :-) ------------------------------------------------------------- / Marc Barrett -MB- | BITNET: XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET / / ISU COM S Student | Internet: XGR39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU / ------------------------------------------------------------ \ ISU : The Home of the Goon / \ Who wants to Blow Up the Moon / -------------------------------------------------------