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- ZKick V2.10 -- Copyright (C) 1990 by Daniel Zenchelsky
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- 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.
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- Requirements:
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- 1) Total memory must be 1.5M or greater.
- 2) There must be a 512k or greater ram board at location $200000.
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- Usage:
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- ZKick [-die] kickfile
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- Dave Haynie, for the MMU code which I pilfered from SetCPU.
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- And my beta testers:
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- 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.
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- ZKick 2.10a fixes a typo in Zkick 2.10, which caused it not to
- recognize an MMU ('=' instead of '==').
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- ZKick 2.10 employs better error checking. In addition, if an MMU
- exists, it clears it before starting 2.0.
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- ZKick 2.01 fixes a bug which caused ZKick not to work with most
- autoboot controllers.
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- 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!!!
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