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- From: porter_woodward@internet.kronos.com (Porter Woodward)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Attention A1200 Owners!
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 14:39:20 GMT
- Organization: Software Quality Assurance
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- In article <1379.6586T127T547@wonder.ca>, bbaghan@wonder.ca says...
- >
- >Brendan Bhagan
- >
- >Email BBaghan@wonder.ca
- >
- >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 -
- >
- >>: 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.
- >
- >>: 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.
- >
- >>: 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.
- >
- >>: - Porter
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >> M^3
- >
- >3.1 works fine with a squirrel I used once, you need a real A1200 3.2 rom, not some cheapo copy
- >
- >
-
- Umm - I hadn't realized they released a 3.2 ROM. Is that a release of Amiga
- Technologies, or some last minute, dying theroes, release of C=? Either way, where can I get it?
-
- - Porter
-
- PS: the "cheapo copies" aren't "copies" in the strictest sense. They're 3.1 ROMs for the CD32.
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