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- From: "carl bannenberg" <carl.bannenberg@canrem.com>
- Subject: 1.3 and a1200
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.4247.21993@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "carl bannenberg" <carl.bannenberg@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 9 Nov 92 22:31:38 EST
- Lines: 32
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- TO: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
- (George Robbins) writes...
-
- -> In article <1992Nov4.4247.21828@dosgate> "carl bannenberg"
- -> <carl.bannenberg@can >
- -> > To Dave Haynie, George Robbins, or Dr Peter Kittel
- -> >
- -> > Is it possible to put a 1.3 ROM (with rom switcher) in a A1200? >
- -> > Before anyone flames me, the user group I belong to would like to >
- -> upgrade from 1.2 A500's to either the A600 or A1200. However we will
- -> > still need to remain compatible with 1.3 only PD software. We would
- -> be > able to use the rom switcher on a A600, but the A1200 sounds
- -> like a > better deal.
- ->
- -> I believe 1.3 will work, but you won't be able to access any of the
- -> new video features or the PCMCIA card. It's been a while since the
- -> software folks shamed us out of using 1.2 for hardware debugging so
- -> I'm not 100% certain.
-
- Mike Sinz wrote me and said that Kickstart is now two chips, so I'm
- guessing the only way to boot 1.3 would be to use Zkick. More than we'ed
- really want to deal with. A600's it is then.
- Thanks for your help.
-
- Carl.Bannenberg@canrem.com
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