I see your point! I'll have to look into it, because I like the idea of keeping the machine as stock as possible, which is best done with a simple ROM upgrade. It might have made some sense in the early nineties, but not now. I'd honestly not throw money at a ROM today. There's also patched versions, tools to make your own kickstarts with any patches or library replacements, and so on.So. But you only need to do it once.Īnd as I understand it, it supports 256/512/1M kickstarts, and 2 of them + the chip you already have.3.x roms - there's variants of v39, v40 and now 3.1.4 (v46 or something, I don't remember) too. ![]() However, this may be more expensive than getting a new Kickstart chip?A little more, sure. But there are always programs that depend on undocumanted behavior of the kickstart services, or just have bugs which happened to work by accident with kickstart 1.3, that will break with a new kickstart.If you need 100% compatibility stay with kickstart 1.3, or get/make a rom switcher. I was running my A500 with kickstart 3.1 for a while. But it does change the services provided by the ROM to applications with new improved and compatible, but not 'bug compatible' versions. ![]() That would be impossible with a mere ROM change. It doesn't change 'the entire architecture of how the machine works'.
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