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- From: Paul Copsey <paul@hectortd.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,demon.tech.amiga
- Subject: Re: Blizzard III / Rom Images
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- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 08:14:56 GMT
- Organization: Hector's House
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- Barry Shilliday (barry@nibelung.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- > I have an A1200 with a 50mhz 68030 & MMU, and 10 meg RAM. It has 3.0
- > kickstart installed, but I want to load the 3.1 version into RAM and
- > use it. I've tried using CpuControl from aminet, which should do just
- > this - but all that happens is it freezes at reboot.
- > I think this may be to do with buggy Blizzard_Mem. Am I right, and
- > if so, is there anyway round it?
-
- I've not found a way to use any other ROM (1.3, 2.05) that I have (and
- yes I do have nice legally obtained copies). AFAIK, it's the
- blizzard's onboard ROM that is the problem, as it kills other utils
- (StatRam for one) that are memory resident. A bummer, and a shame they
- didn't tell you that when you bought it, like the inability to run a
- CD & HD on the SCSI card without slowing the HD down!
-
- Paul
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- "Do you know what you're doing? Are you fully aware of the consequences?"
- 'Yes, I am.'
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