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- Short: MapROM tool for Blizzard turbos. V1.18.
- Author: no-email@for.now (Harry "Piru" Sintonen)
- Version: 1.18
- Type: util/boot
- Requires: OS 1.0+, Blizzard turbo with MAPROM feature or CPU Card
- Replaces: util/boot/BlizKick.lha
-
- Important: I am having my military service till 31th December 1999,
- so I might not be as active as before. You can find me from IRC
- occasionally as Piru (on channels #amiga, #AmigaFIN, #amycoders and
- so on) though. CU on next millenium. ;)
-
- BlizKick is used to rekick any Kickstart ROM image with Blizzard turbo
- boards having MAPROM feature (jumper). Also A4000 CPU & Cyberstorm Cards
- should work. BlizKick has been tested with BLIZZARD 1230-I, 1230-II,
- 1230-III, 1230-IV, 1240-T/ERC, 1260, 2040-ERC, 2060, CyberStorm MK III,
- CyberStorm PPC and Blizzard PPC boards. Kickstart 1.2, 1.3, 2.04, 2.05,
- 3.0 and 3.1 are currently tested ROM images.
-
- BlizKick main features include:
-
- *NEW* in V1.18:
-
- - Full source code is included as usual.
- - Added BPPCFix module for WarpOS lowers. I personally like PowerUP
- better but lots of ppl asked this.
-
- V1.17:
-
- - EXTRES buffer was overwritten by blizzppc/csppc kernel,
- fixed with 1mb extra alloc.
-
- V1.16:
-
- - Removed rom checksum disable from SPEEDROM.
- - Added ramlibstack module.
- - Again tried to fix CS MK II support. Maybe I get it right some day.
- Ta ChaoZer. (it doesn't seem to work atm :\)
- - Fixed some stuff in places. I hope I didn't break anything. =)
- - Fixed guide a bit.
-
- V1.15:
-
- - Fixed memory node area for CS MK II. It could work now. Ta ChaoZer.
- - Fixed guide about Blizzzard PPC, read it.
- - Fixed installation script. ;)
-
- V1.14:
-
- - Deleted ffs62 module, it never worked.
- WARNING: DO NOT USE FFS62 MODULE, GET RID OF IT!
- - Fixed support for KS 1.1NTSC and 1.1PAL
-
- V1.13:
-
- - Fixed BlizzPPC support.
- - FusionReserve module has been working all the time, just
- get FixPATCHMAC.lha from aminet and use it.
- - Fixed bug from CS MK II support. Maybe it finally works.
- - Some improvements to BlizKick_install script.
- - Added NewIcons for BlizKick.guide and Free100buf.
-
- V1.12:
-
- - ß9: Added support for Blizzard PPC
- - ß9: Fixed CS MKII support (I hope:).
- - ß8: Public source code release! See BlizKick.guide/history.
- - ß7: Rewrote board detection to be more clean & robust. Now
- adding new boards is a lot easier.
- - ß7: Hehe... Fixed some bugs... Now it works with CS PPC (tested)
- and CS MKIII at least.
- - ß6: SHOULD WORK WITH CPU CARDS NOW!! (CBM A4000 CPU Cards,
- Cyberstorm MKI, MKIII and PPC at least. Cyberstorm MKII, MKIII
- and PPC are detected automatically, so don't specify CPUCARD
- switch with those).
- - ß5: Fixed PatchMath020 module to patch non-64bit mul/div on 68060.
- - ß5: Fixed stupid movem bug from SpeedyChip module.
- - ß5: Tried another approach in RebootFix module.
- - ß5: FusionReserve module still doesn't work. :(
- - ß4: Fixed little bug from ROM image validation.
- - ß4: Hopefully finally fixed FusionReserve module. ;)
- - ß4: Added two modules: RebootFix to fix problems with A1200
- and 060 (at least with BLIZZARD 1260) reboot when display
- is in multisync mode, and SpeedyChip module for patching 060
- MMU lists improving chip memory write speed!
- - ß3: Now KS 1.x are only patched if they're original.
- - ß2: CPU Cards should work after SetPatch now.
- - ß2: Hopefully fixed FusionReserve module.
- - ß2: Added two new modules: A1000Jingle (Try it out! ;) and
- PatchMath020 (Optimizes C-compiler math routines).
- - ß1: Should work with (A4000?) CPU Cards! See CPUCARD switch.
- - ß1: New module: FusionReserve substituting RsrvCold of FUSION MAC
- emulator.
-
- - SCSIDEV43 module; kick V43 beta scsi.device. No more 4GB limit!
- NOTE: You need V43 beta scsi.device in file DEVS:scsi43.device.
- - MAPROM jumper OFF detection fixed, it had been broken since v1.9...
- - Free100buf program for freeing buffer created by ChipSaver module.
- - Tested with Kickstart 2.04 (37.175).
- - ChipSaver, RemCards, SpeedyIDE and WaitIDE modules.
- - EXTRESBUF is put into fast memory, instead of chip!
- - BBlank & NewAlert modules by Jens Lorenz.
- - BKMODPATH env-variable.
- - QUIET switch.
- - KICKFILE * can be used to kick original ROM found on chip.
- - LOCALFAST relocates memheaders to fast memory.
- - SoftSCSI module.
- - Support for BLIZZARD 1240-T/ERC, 2040-ERC and 2060!
- - Fixed bug from EXTRESBUF. Now it really should work with on all boards.
- - ROM address validity test to rule out some invalid ROM images.
- - XPK support for KICKFILE.
- - Support for hackdisk.device!
- - Can be run any time (no more need to start before SetPatch on 1260)
- - EXTRESBUF feature: Can use memory outside ROM image for "modules". No
- more "iffucient ROM space" -problem!
- - Can replace PrepareEmul tool 100%
- - Has possibility to plant ResidentTag modules into ROM image!
- (13 example modules included, plus assembler source code for all of
- them!)
- - Can restore the original Kickstart.
- - Has built-in FastWaitBlit patch.
- - Uses Blizzard board's own MAPROM feature (jumper).
- - No kickstart file preparation or similar is needed. You can just save any
- ROM image and give it to BlizKick!
- - Can make memory on Blizzard board LOCAL, bypass flashy boot of the board
- and speed up ROM boot.
- - Doesn't use MMU, KickMem, KickTag, ColdCapture or CoolCapture vectors.
- -> 100% transparent!
- - BlizKick is as OS compatible as possible: Doesn't use any additional
- memory (except those 512K and memory used by EXTRESBUF, if specified),
- coolcapture, coldcapture, kickmem or kicktag vectors.
- - Works with KS 1.0+ There's really no use for this, except for restoring
- original Kickstart after using Kickstart 1.x. Well, maybe some freaks
- like to boot KS 3.x from floppy... ;-)
- - Tested with BLIZZARD 1230-I @ 40MHz, BLIZZARD 1230-II @ 40MHz, BLIZZARD
- 1230-III @ 50MHz, BLIZZARD 1230-IV @ 50 MHz, BLIZZARD 1240-T/ERC @ 40
- MHz, BLIZZARD 1260 @ 50MHz, BLIZZARD 2040-ERC @ 40 MHz, BLIZZARD 2060
- @ 50 MHz, CyberStorm MK III @ 50MHz, CyberStorm PPC @ 200MHz and
- Blizzard PPC @ 240MHz turbo boards.
- - FreeWare! Copyright © 1996-1999 PitPlane Productions.
-
- ( Latest BlizKick beta release plus some other programs by me can be found
- from http://www.jyu.fi/~sintonen/AmigaPrograms.html )
-
- IMPORTANT: www.jyu.fi/~sintonen/ pages are (currently) badly outdated.
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 2689 1541 42.6% 10-May-99 18:05:54 BlizKick.info
- 6308 3022 52.0% 10-May-99 18:04:58 BlizKick.readme
- 3120 1945 37.6% 21-Mar-97 23:45:28 +AspectFont
- 3314 1492 54.9% 13-May-98 11:59:28 +AspectFont.e
- 21628 8789 59.3% 13-May-98 11:58:04 +BKGUI
- 15119 5018 66.8% 13-May-98 11:56:48 +BKGUI.e
- 7184 5182 27.8% 10-May-99 17:52:04 +BlizKick
- 62791 20264 67.7% 24-Jan-99 12:05:04 +BlizKick.ASM
- 92152 34305 62.7% 10-May-99 17:42:18 +BlizKick.guide
- 3034 2197 27.5% 17-Jul-98 01:24:24 +BlizKick.guide.info
- 532 449 15.6% 21-May-97 05:13:34 +Free100buf
- 2975 1268 57.3% 13-May-98 11:58:18 +Free100buf.ASM
- 5442 1948 64.2% 17-Jul-98 01:56:28 +Free100buf.info
- 2068 772 62.6% 10-May-99 17:00:48 +install_script
- 7844 1628 79.2% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +A1000Jingle
- 24297 3901 83.9% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +A1000Jingle.ASM
- 172 146 15.1% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +BBlank
- 1593 846 46.8% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +BBlank.ASM
- 8204 3242 60.4% 10-May-99 17:52:04 +blizkickmodule.i
- 236 210 11.0% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +BPPCFix
- 1561 838 46.3% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +BPPCFix.ASM
- 620 508 18.0% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +ChipSaver
- 5525 2410 56.3% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +ChipSaver.ASM
- 336 271 19.3% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +Colour
- 1976 1095 44.5% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +Colour.ASM
- 364 319 12.3% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +FixMath404
- 2961 1404 52.5% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +FixMath404.ASM
- 460 391 15.0% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +FusionReserve
- 3795 1852 51.1% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +FusionReserve.ASM
- 596 503 15.6% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +hackdisk
- 5690 2527 55.5% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +hackdisk.ASM
- 244 218 10.6% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +Magia
- 2342 1104 52.8% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +Magia.ASM
- 248 200 19.3% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +MoveVBR
- 1437 736 48.7% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +MoveVBR.ASM
- 720 579 19.5% 10-May-99 17:52:04 +NewAlert
- 7364 2308 68.6% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +NewAlert.ASM
- 348 298 14.3% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +NoClick
- 3119 1457 53.2% 10-May-99 17:52:04 +NoClick.ASM
- 688 563 18.1% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +PatchMath020
- 16759 5322 68.2% 10-May-99 17:52:04 +PatchMath020.ASM
- 224 211 5.8% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +PrepareEmul
- 2197 1138 48.2% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +PrepareEmul.ASM
- 244 241 1.2% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +ramlibstack
- 2171 1120 48.4% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +ramlibstack.ASM
- 264 232 12.1% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +RebootFix
- 2452 1255 48.8% 10-May-99 17:52:04 +RebootFix.ASM
- 184 165 10.3% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +RemCards
- 1788 946 47.0% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +RemCards.ASM
- 436 383 12.1% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +Replace
- 2379 1185 50.1% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +Replace.ASM
- 680 590 13.2% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +SCSIDEV43
- 6181 2535 58.9% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +SCSIDEV43.ASM
- 652 539 17.3% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +SoftSCSI
- 5074 2260 55.4% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +SoftSCSI.ASM
- 484 398 17.7% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +SpeedyChip
- 4141 1911 53.8% 10-May-99 17:52:04 +SpeedyChip.ASM
- 264 246 6.8% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +SpeedyIDE
- 2268 1039 54.1% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +SpeedyIDE.ASM
- 372 255 31.4% 10-May-99 17:52:04 +Test
- 4679 2016 56.9% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +Test.ASM
- 348 315 9.4% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +WaitIDE
- 3276 1407 57.0% 10-May-99 17:52:02 +WaitIDE.ASM
- 152 151 0.6% 06-May-96 11:09:04 +SaveROM
- 756 403 46.6% 13-May-98 12:01:08 +SaveROM.ASM
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