Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!bralick From: bralick@cs.psu.edu (Will Bralick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: The Inevitable 1.4 Rom Problem (was Re: Ferrari Formula One and Kickstart 1.3?) Message-ID: Date: 5 Jan 90 15:54:19 GMT References: <1017@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <7797@cognos.UUCP> <694@tau.sm.luth.se> Organization: Self Similar Lines: 25 In article <694@tau.sm.luth.se> Karl-Gunnar Hultland writes: |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. | |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. I have always wondered why the kickstart ROMs weren't packaged in one of those cartridge doodahs. Were cartridges considered and rejected for some design reason, or were they not considered at all? Opening the box to replace ROMs each time the operating system is upgraded has always seemed suboptimal to me. Regards, -- Will Bralick | ... when princes think more of bralick@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu | luxury than of arms, they lose bralick@gondor.cs.psu.edu | their state. with disclaimer; use disclaimer; | - Niccolo Machiavelli