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- From: patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no (Patrick Hanevold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,demon.tech.amiga
- Subject: Re: Blizzard III / Rom Images
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 00:47:05 GMT
- Organization: EUnet Norway
- Message-ID: <1305.6658T1037T2479@login.eunet.no>
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- >> 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?
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- >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!
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- I have a BLizzardIII, and I got 3.1 up running.
- Just disabled the FastROM jumper, and used SKick.
- I allso have exec.library in fast.
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- .... Amiga and official Be developer - Visual Technologies \\\///
- ...... Wish I could have a picture here. \X//
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