26 January 2010, 12:16 | #21 |
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I take all your comments on board, the more I think of it now I will probably end up using it as a floppy based gaming machine
Looking at a 1.3 / 3.1 rom switcher with roms & official wb3.1 disks @ approx £22 this seems like a good deal? Getting excited now |
26 January 2010, 12:33 | #22 |
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A600 doesnt make a bad little second machine, playing floppys feels more right than on the A1200 and haveing to reboot after a game isnt that bad you have do that anyway with most ADos installs.
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26 January 2010, 12:45 | #23 |
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I was looking at getting one of these... does the 1.3 rom support the hard drive - I think some 1.3 roms can be made to do this - so in theory you could duel boot either 3.1 or 1.3 operating systems...?
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Would have to use the 3.1 rom for the HDD stuff and workbench... |
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http://www2.gup.jku.at/~tkoeck/kick1....device_patch/ And if you are going to burn your own EPROM (or have someone else do it for you) why not make your own KS Switcher using nothing more than 3-pole switch, three pieces of wire and a 27C800 EPROM. See this great guide by Kipper2k. http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=581936&postcount=1 But it is really academic. Once you've got WHDload installed on your A600's hard drive running games from hard drive using KS3.1 you'll (probably) never switch back to booting floppy disks for gaming. And thus never need KS1.3 Last edited by alexh; 26 January 2010 at 22:25. |
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26 January 2010, 22:42 | #26 |
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I went ahead an bought the Roms and switcher. It was £14 for just the 3.1 rom and 3.1 disks or £20 for the both roms (1.3 and 3.1) and switch kit.
It was worth it for me as I only have a set of 3.0 workbench disks... Got my SRAM So all I need now is the 600 and I have my eye on a few |
26 January 2010, 23:00 | #27 |
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You could still buy a 27C400 EPROM with the patched KS1.3 in it from the guy listed in Kipper2k's guide.
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26 January 2010, 23:35 | #28 |
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Thanks for the info Alex...
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27 January 2010, 00:10 | #29 |
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You need to thank Kipper2K he did the research and write up.
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27 January 2010, 00:13 | #30 |
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I just been reading through his post - he has put a lot of work in there!
Cheers Kipper2K!! |
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Well... I've now setup my CF-IDE HD with Classic WB 68k added things like my SCSI drivers and WHDLoad key, setup DH1 for my HD Installed Games and DH2 or my WHDLoad games. Was just about to copy my games list straght accross from my A1200 and realised I had only the AGA versions of the games like, ArcadePool, Zool, etc Grrrr! So I had to start again with the ECS versions!
A few hours later and I have a nice 1gb games list, I really hope that wont be too slow lol or I'll have to make a smaller fav's list on DH1... I've stuck with mostly 1 disk games like Silkwork, buggy boy, etc so I hope most will work with my 2mb SRAM card even if I can only get a 600 with 1mb ram. My 1.3 - 3.1 rom switch arrived so that ready to go in and will let me play any of my old floppy collection Quite a few auctions finishing tomorrow and next week so hopefully I will get a 600 soon enough Nice work on the 68k pack Bloodwych it may be stripped down but it isn't lacking anything I need, will miss Igame but I can live without it plus I made a fav's list for KGLoad a while back by using the same text format as the main list just stripped down and it works! Although yet to test with 68k but I am hopeful Steve. |
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Thanks for the update fixsteve!
KG hasn't released KGLoad for ECS yet - he has got an ECS version in mind and that link is for future support. At the moment it doesn't work. So it's the list launchers only, but as you know they work quite well. You can also launch games from within Dopus using IconLoad and of course good old drawer launching! |
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My A600 arrived
Not installed the 1.3-3.1 switch yet, will do that tomorrow. There is already a 3.1 rom in there so I was able to test 68k and it looks superb on the real A600, runs a little slow but perhaps I'm just used to 030 power lol Played a couple of games, I definatly over populated the games list as it takes about 30 seconds maybe more to open so I think I will do a top 50 or something Heres some pics for you to enjoy: Steve. |
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Nice pics Steve.
Can you try the RAD: boot (holding left mouse button on boot and selecting RADboot->Gamesmenu). See if it soft-resets back into the gamesmenu when you hit the magical three keys.....should be a good way around the quit key issues. |
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Update: In radboot the games list works fine but if you quit out of a WHDLoad game by the three key reset it boots into workbench unless you hold the left button and reload the radboot. Steve. Last edited by fitzsteve; 06 February 2010 at 22:54. |
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07 February 2010, 01:03 | #39 |
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Strange, RAD: is meant to stay resident on reboot.
It recovers fine in WinUAE. |
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Just so we're singing from the same hymn sheet.. Boot holding left mouse, then choose radboot, choose games menu. It boots in Amigados and the games menu loads. I play a game, till bordom or I finish it Then restart with CTRL & the two Amiga Keys. It should boot back to the Games Menu? |
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