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ZKick V2.10 -- Copyright (C) 1990 by Daniel Zenchelsky
This program may be freely copied, as long as all copyright
notices are left intact and unchanged.
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ZKick is a KickStart 2.0 kickfile loader, similar to KickIt by
Bryce Nesbitt, but with several advantages. First of all, ZKick will work
in ANY Amiga with a ram board at $200000, no matter which slot it's in.
Second, when ZKick loads KickStart, it survives a reboot! When you hit
CTRL-AMIGA-AMIGA, you are placed back in KickStart 2.0. This feature can
be disabled with the "-die" option.
Requirements:
1) Total memory must be 1.5M or greater.
2) There must be a 512k or greater ram board at location $200000.
Usage:
ZKick [-die] kickfile
The -die option is used to tell ZKick not to survive reboots, so that when
the machine is reset, the KickStart ROM will be run instead.
Also included is the program KillZKick. KillZKick removes ZKick from
memory, and reboots the system with the KickStart ROM.
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Special thanks to:
Dan Babcock for sending me an excellent article that he wrote which
showed how to set up RomTag modules correctly, as well as his many ideas
for bug fixes and improvements.
Dave Haynie, for the MMU code which I pilfered from SetCPU.
And my beta testers:
Martin Allred
Joanna Dow
Frank Edwards
Valentin Pepelea
Mike Thomas
Erik Quackenbush (even though his flakey hardware caused most of
the problems :-)
Apologies to anyone I forgot.
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History
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ZKick 2.10b fixes a problem which caused ZKick to configure each
device twice.
ZKick 2.10a fixes a typo in Zkick 2.10, which caused it not to
recognize an MMU ('=' instead of '==').
ZKick 2.10 employs better error checking. In addition, if an MMU
exists, it clears it before starting 2.0.
ZKick 2.01 fixes a bug which caused ZKick not to work with most
autoboot controllers.
ZKick 2.0 is the first "public" release.
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P.S. This is my first attempt at assembler programming on the 68000.
I hope you enjoy the results!!!