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- From: slider
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 3.1 ROMs from CD32 to an A4000?
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 19:16:00 GMT
- Organization: Jay Miner........Father of great things and a true engineering visionary...he is sorely missed around the world
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- -> Chris \"Big-Kahuna\" Rampson <crampson@ford.com> writes:
- -> pfund3@uni2a.unige.ch (Daniel Pfund) wrote:
- -> >
- -> >I have a CD32 and I don't use it anymore. I now have an FX400 in my A400,
- -> >but I heard that the 3.1 roms fixed the spin-up time for the HD (which
- -> >can get annoying sometimes...).
- -> >
- -> >Just wondering now: is it possible to take the CD32 kickstart roms out and
- -> >put them into the A4000? I suppose they must be both in "normal" (ie:
- -> >not smd) technology...
- -> >
- ->
- -> ROMs is ROMs, and it "should" work . . .
-
- BZZZZZTTTTT WRONG!!!! The ROM in the CD32 is surface mounted, why
- I don't know. Also the CD32 ROM has code for AKIKO chip but i don't think
- that would matter at all if you could put it in a A4000. But unless Commodore
- made different versions of the CD32 (don't believe they did as so few were made)
- Then the ROM chip is surface mounted. I had thought of this too but upon
- opening the CD32 I found the ROM chip surface mounted and that ended that..
- Oh well....Anyone out there have a CD32 where the ROM is in a socket.
- Another prob would be that the CD32 has only one ROM and the A4000 has
- 2 I believe like the A3000......Adds sell the 3.1 ROM packages for:
- A500/2000
- A3000/4000
- But could be wrong....either way the surface mounted chip in the CD32 would
- not be worth trying to unsolder it and hacking it into a 4000. Why the hell
- commodore made such an important upgrade path unaccessable is beyond
- me..Then again it was Commodore!!!
- laterzzz
- James Vigliotti
- slider@ccnet.com
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