[Coco] [Color Computer] Older site.

[Bob Devries]

There was/is a "hack" for the Amiga 1000 to enable the user to install 
kickstart ROMs. I'd guess Aminet would be the place to look for that, if 
interested.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Older site.


> >Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:32:19 -0800 (PST)
>>From: Dan Olson <dano at agora.rdrop.com>
>
>>Correct me if I'm way off here,
>
> I wouldn't know, the last time I saw that particular computer, its pet
> human was too broke to buy it a hard drive. ;-)
>
>>as a valid hard drive controller, so you'd have to boot from floppy and
>>run a special program to make this work. (I hope I'm wrong, an IDE
>>controller on the 1000 would be kinda cool).
>
> Well, the 1000 apparently *has* to load Kickstart off floppy... But it
> may be possible to add the proper driver to the Kickstart image.  Even
> if you can't, as long as there's an AmigaDOS 1.3 driver...
>
> And even if you can't boot of the hard drive, it can still be useful
> to have.  Fer sure, most hard drive equipped CoCos can't boot off the
> hard drive.
>
> Willard
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