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From: d87-khd@sm.luth.se (Karl-Gunnar Hultland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Inevitable 1.4 Rom Problem (was Re: Ferrari Formula One and Kickstart 1.3?)
Message-ID: <694@tau.sm.luth.se>
Date: 5 Jan 90 10:41:19 GMT
References: <1017@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <7797@cognos.UUCP>
Reply-To: Karl-Gunnar Hultland <d87-khd@tau.luth.se>
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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In article <7797@cognos.UUCP> gords@cognos.UUCP (Gord Smith) writes:
>I have been concerned for some time about how having KickStart in ROM is going
>to be a reeeeeaaaaal problem once 1.4 comes out, in terms of still being able
>to run misbehaved but nevertheless enjoyable software that works under 1.2.

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>I was planning on posing this potential and inevitable problem to the
>net.wisdom sometime soon, and the quoted article shows a good example of the
>problem.

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>A friend of mine has a 1000 and has confirmed that FF1 does not work with
>KickStart 1.3.  Of course, for him it's just a matter of changing KickStart
>disks and powering down/up.
>
>What about us lucky folk with KickStart in ROM??

At least in Sweden, and in Germany too, some companies advertise about
a product called kickselector it allows you to have 3 kickstarts at once
just selecting which to boot with a switch on the outside.That should
minimize the trouble of exchanging your kick.
As of incompabilities the only problem should be if the programmers
pays no attention to the guidelines Commodore have given, to the
programmers, about how to code a upwards compatible program.

The real problem is that few programmers will use the new features
just because there exists quite a few 1.2 and 1.3 on the market.

					Karl

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