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- From: bbaghan@wonder.ca (Brendan Bhagan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Attention A1200 Owners!
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 06:57:15 GMT
- Organization: WCi Information Technology Division
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- Brendan Bhagan
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- Email BBaghan@wonder.ca
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- A1200
- 50 mhz 030/882
- 10 mb ram
- 540 mb hard drive
- CD-rom Drive
-
- How to make Mac-os multitask?
- run it on the Amiga!
- >Porter Woodward (Porter_Wooward@internet.kronos.com) wrote:
- >: Hi -
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- >: I have a little project in mind for all us A1200 owners out there. It
- >: involves the 3.1 ROM chip. As some of you may or may not know, the 3.1
- >: ROM can be used in the A1200, but there is a nasty rumor that it drops
- >: PCMCIA support.
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- >: However, you gain some additional CD-ROM support, and a couple of
- >: additions, and bug-fixes to the 3.0 ROM... Now, I have a question.
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- >: Would it be worth it to you to have some sort of "ROM Switcher" like
- >: the ones made for the A500/A2000 in the days of 1.3/2.0? I'd really like
- >: some feedback on this - whether you think such a device would be useful,
- >: and whether the 3.1 has benefits enough to warrant it.
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- >: - Porter
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- >I had similar concerns while my 1200 still lived (it is fried now) and I
- >wondered if someone could grab the pcmcia driver from ther 3.0 rom and
- >patch it to be relocateable and load it as a resource under 3.1?
- >moot point for me 'till I get the thing fixed, I am back to my trusty 500
- >but slow.
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- > M^3
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- 3.1 works fine with a squirrel I used once, you need a real A1200 3.2 rom, not some cheapo copy
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