English Amiga Board - View Single Post - How to load kickstart rom 3.1.4 into memory?

alexh · 12 October 2018, 14:23

Surely you just install WB3.1.4 and the install process will add what is called "setpatch" to your startup sequence and part of that is "romupdates" whereby the required new ROM modules are patched into RAM? (Your boot process will include a reboot to make them live, resulting in an overall longer boot process)

If you are on KS3.0 and cannot use WB3.1.4 (because KS3.0 is not supported?) then I'm afraid despite what everyone above is saying I don't think there is anything you can do.

You cannot use skick (a program to patch Kickstart into RAM) with KS3.1.4 (yet) because AFAIK there is no rtb file and you cannot use ones for other versions of KS.

Send the ROM file(s) away to be programmed into 2*27C400 EPROMs and replace your old KS ROMs. There are several EPROM vendors who will pre-program parts if you send them the data files (at a very small cost)

12 October 2018, 14:23	#11
alexh Thalion Webshrine Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford Posts: 14,337	Surely you just install WB3.1.4 and the install process will add what is called "setpatch" to your startup sequence and part of that is "romupdates" whereby the required new ROM modules are patched into RAM? (Your boot process will include a reboot to make them live, resulting in an overall longer boot process) If you are on KS3.0 and cannot use WB3.1.4 (because KS3.0 is not supported?) then I'm afraid despite what everyone above is saying I don't think there is anything you can do. You cannot use skick (a program to patch Kickstart into RAM) with KS3.1.4 (yet) because AFAIK there is no rtb file and you cannot use ones for other versions of KS. Send the ROM file(s) away to be programmed into 2*27C400 EPROMs and replace your old KS ROMs. There are several EPROM vendors who will pre-program parts if you send them the data files (at a very small cost)