Custom Kickstart ROMs

[alexh]

Originally Posted by redblade

make it so that workbench spawns operations as a new process, ie when you click on a disk, it gets spawned as a new process so you can go about another action

If you want that Functionality from Workbench then you need to consider using Scalos.

http://scalos.noname.fr/

[Dr. Dude]

we are now talk about placing Wb in a rom
What if we start whit just a whole bunch of commands? (Folder C: on WB)

This when a disk that has a boot error, or what so ever and has a emty c folder or non at all. You will still have commmands like "Dir" or "loadwb"

If you guys can place almost anything in a rom, what about starting whit cd-rom suport?

What I am suggesting is just a little something to protect EAB from accusations of spreading ROMs.

In theory with the file AmiGer posted it would be possible for someone who don't own KS3.1 to compile it (under say KS2.0?) and then have a full working 3.1 ROM. A lot of hassle I know!

I know it's all bullshit and I myself download and pirated every Amiga ROM there is going and the only one I physically own is a 1.3 ROM which is presently 8000 miles away!! But this is just for EAB's protection.

I suggest in any future code posts of the KS3.1 ROM to remove the first 2 "interesting" statements from the dissasembly and instruct users they have to disssasmble these parts themselves to get a full source they can compile. If they can dissasemble these 2 lines then they must already have the ROM. If they don't then this source won't compile or at best be a flakey ROM.

The lines in question are:

SECSTRT_0:
    MOVE.B   (A?),-(A?)
LAB_0001:
    JMP      LAB_0011
    DC.W    $????

Whilst this doesn't get round the piracy/dissasembling of copyrighted code issue completely it does kind of put this in a similar situation to the copyright legal technicalities of WHDLoad, which causes no problems for the board.

Once we have the code split into includes or something then it will be a lot simpler by only distributing a certain part to people who can confirm they have the ROMs.

Note the above applies to source code.

What could happen with the ROMs (executables) is that a hacked ROM is only distributed as a patch, which gets applied over a original 3.1 ROM image - similar to WHDLoad installers.

[Dr. Dude]

so let me get this basic
You have a 3.1 rom and you place over it the "modifide" rom
and it looks if you have the right stuf eh?

cracking can't be stoped, and like you i probly have all the roms you can find
You can prevend it from being cracked for a wile, but in time it will be broken

What about somthing like Caps uses? Or cloanto?
You need a Rom Key inorder to use it.

Give evry key given out a its own key, so when it apairs on the net for download, you will know who the bad guy was


I say go build the "Super" Rom.

Originally Posted by keropi

that would take a LOT of time, patches for the wb3.1 , (or a fake HD device which actually is the rom space, but would still need patches to redirect writting operations to a media), a bank switching mechanism to read the new bigger sized roms... Have u considered a pcmcia flash disk???

What about putting some mem aside for that? lets say you need atleast a extra 2 megs in your migy, so that will be used as"virtual" Hd

Can this be done?

[Tolismlf]

hey why don't we create a custom Amiga. We will start painting our machines black, pink, red i don't know whatelse!

[Dr. Dude]

Not a bad idee

[Adderly]

After reading this thread (over one year old, but i found it very promising) i dreamed of a modified ks3.1 with included virus check routines. Since nowadays no new viruses are released it would be very usefull and can find them all without updates...

[dlfrsilver]

yes doing a in house bios that respect the normal KS functions, plus many new
others. without using a line of the copyrighted ones.

then no problemo ^^