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I believe the ability to select Amix from the 2620/2630 boot menu was removed from later revisions of those accelerators' ROMs. If you have Kickstart 2 or higher you can simply select the Amix boot partition from the regular old Early Startup menu.
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Why are you posting a thumbnail of a V34 Sysinfo screen? Are you trying to troll or something?
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http://www.gregdonner.org/workbench/os_versions.html If I was trolling, I would be posting fictional references about you, of a personal nature. Plenty of times I am wrong. The adult thing to do is admit the fact, rather than view it as a problem with the person correcting me. |
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As the link you posted states, V34 is Kickstart 1.3, not 1.4. There was no 1.4 outside Commodore's offices and that is irrelevant to this thread.
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More likely, the original was dependent, and subsequence releases were not, but I think CBMs problem was, they were very limited in WHO they could sell Unix equipped Amigas to. I think the limit was educational and scientific establishments within the United States. There were heavy restrictions on supplying high end IT equipment at the time. Even things like CD-RAM drives came with restricted access stickers, warning of export restrictions. Last edited by Pat the Cat; 06 January 2017 at 03:10. |
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Also, 1.4a15 (KS 36.15, WB 36.1) was also distributed to developers at an Amiga dev conference in June 1989 (source). So even discounting SuperKickstart A3000 hardware ROM as a true 1.4, Commodore did give at least one version of it to developers, outside of their offices. Last edited by LocalH; 06 January 2017 at 04:59. Reason: dumb smilies |
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Still irrelevant for the UNIX topic, but nevertheless interesting. |
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well....
The Sun3/80 had come out in 89 already and that got you proper vendor support and a ecosystem of software vendors, it was also by that point a last-stop system while SUN started selling SPARC's. The pricepoint is all a bit less important, places buying UNIX workstations in 1990 were far less price sensitive. |
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Glad to hear it. Some people seem to be having problems with doing that.
A3000s all have a Superkickstart, AFAIK. Idea is, the shadow kickstart OS is loaded from drive, floppy in the case of 1.3, or from hard drive if you want 2.0 or later (hence the x in 2.0x) and mapped with the 68030. So yes, plenty of machines out there with SuperKickstart chips Which version of that they have, I don't know. I certainly didn't get a Unix option when booting up with both mouse buttons held together. But then, I never owned a Unix Amiga. I haven't got an A3000 with a Superkickstart anymore. ![]() Last edited by Pat the Cat; 07 January 2017 at 00:37. |
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Very chuggy in some respects when using 24 bit graphics cards and whatnot, that's why I never bothered trying on a stock 25MHz A3000 even without one. Just because as OS is viable doesn't mean it is going to do what you want it to do.
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I'm quite confused about the Kickstart 1.4 confusion. Yes, (many) early A3000 production models shipped with Kickstart 1.4 and loaded both the 1.3 and 2.x Kickstarts from hard drive (in DEVS
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Great. How do you do that? I think that was the goal of the thread.
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It was before you derailed it.
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I derailed it? Lot of people waffling about why it should work. Nobody came in with the "I did X/Y/Z" to get it working.
You reckon it works. You post a how to. I'm assuming it can be made to work somehow, but I have yet to see any evidence that Amix ever ran on anything but a Nix ROM'd Amiga. OK, in theory anything 2.04 and above should work. In practice, who ever saw one? Who ever bought one? |
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