From: alexm@leland.Stanford.EDU (alex matthews)
Subject: Re: IF YOU UNDERSTAND $C00000 AND $800000, READ THIS
Keywords: MEMORY, ram, addmem
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 06:36:54 GMT

In article <BxAt0q.I1J@unx.sas.com> jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper) writes:
>
>In article <1992Nov5.170733.20207@afit.af.mil>, ssovaiko@afit.af.mil (Stephen F Sovaiko) writes:
>>I am trying to get zkick to work on a 2MB A1000.  The kickfile loads into
>>$C00000 ram just fine, but only after running noC0ram, which takes all
>>1.5MB of my autoconfiguring expansion board away from the system.  When
>>zkick is done and reboots in 2.0, I have a system with no fastram, anly
>>about 100K of chipram, and no room for WB2.0.
>>
>>Question - how can I find out where the kickfile resides above $C00000,
>>so that I can run ADDMEM and get the remaining fastram back into the
>>system?
>>
>>I do have another (non-autoconfig) mode for my ram board, and it will
>>require running addmem beginning at $800000.  But I will still need to
>>know where the kkickfile begins and the kickfile ends so I don't take back ram from the kickfile.
>
>Hmm... I, personally, know that the U.S. Military is probably one of the
>biggest computer pirate organizations in the world, but do you have to
>advertise this fact to everyone?
>
>If you are a registered developer, you can get all the help you need
>with problems like this directly from Commodore.
>
>If you are not a registered developer, you have a pirated copy of the
>Kickstart image, and don't deserve help!
>
>Please.  Keep your piracy to yourself.  If you're a registered Dev,
>contact me through the developer program, and I'll apologise...

Normally, I'd agree with you... but as an A1000 owner, I think it
is unfair that it IS possible to run 2.04 on my machine, however,
Commodore has not seen fit to let me do so.  All they would have
to do is sell the operating system with an additional kickstart
file disk and Zkick (or something similar).  I cannot see any
reason at all why they do not, therefore they condemn me to
1.3 forever.  Is this supposed to be some sort of incentive to upgrade
and toss some profit their way?  If they want something from me, I 
certainly could give them a little profit by purchacing a new operating
system, but I simply am too poor to buy a new Amiga right now.  

As far as the guy with the 500 goes, I can understand why he might not
wish to try cracking open his machine and start pulling chips.  Why
shouldn't everyone who doesn't want to open up their intentionally
sealed box be given another option that already exists.  All it would
cost Commodore is one additional disk.  

I'm really sick of 1.3.   Also you can't just tell me I should go
out and get one of those little kits that allows me to put the rom
in my 1000.  I've hacked this puppy a little too much, and anything
more in the way of the bus would give it a permenant guru.






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>Jim Cooper
>(jamie@unx.sas.com)                             bix: jcooper
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>Any opinions expressed herein are mine (Mine, all mine!  Ha, ha, ha!),
>and not necessarily those of my employer.


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