Kickstart ADF != kick.rom?

[John Russell]

I'm just setting up WinUAE for the first time. I have various .ADF
Kickstart files, each 880K. WinUAE wants a file named kick.rom. When
I rename an ADF file to kick.rom, WinUAE says it has the wrong
checksum. Is there some other conversion step needed? (I've tried 3
different Kickstart images, all of 1986 / A1000 vintage.)

John
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[Klaus von der Haar]

Post by John Russell
I'm just setting up WinUAE for the first time. I have various .ADF
Kickstart files, each 880K. WinUAE wants a file named kick.rom. When
I rename an ADF file to kick.rom, WinUAE says it has the wrong
checksum. Is there some other conversion step needed? (I've tried 3
different Kickstart images, all of 1986 / A1000 vintage.)
John

Hi.
You just must have an Kick.rom from an original Amiga.
There are different one. V1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1
In the UAE Packet is a Proggi, transrom (I think). Start on Amiga,
transrom df0: and the Kick is on Disk. Or search in the web Google:
kick.rom
The ADF is just "AmigaDiskFile". That means, its just an AmigaDisk.

Fanne

[Thomas Henkel]

Post by Klaus von der Haar
The ADF is just "AmigaDiskFile". That means, its just an AmigaDisk.

To be precise: A kickstart disk actually includes a rom image for an amiga
1000, but between other data and there are no tools to extract the rom
image from an kickstart adf. So it is easier to search the net for a rom
image than for a tool to extract it from a kickstart disk. :-)

Tom

[Harrison]

Post by Thomas Henkel

Post by Klaus von der Haar
The ADF is just "AmigaDiskFile". That means, its just an AmigaDisk.

To be precise: A kickstart disk actually includes a rom image for an amiga
1000, but between other data and there are no tools to extract the rom
image from an kickstart adf. So it is easier to search the net for a rom
image than for a tool to extract it from a kickstart disk. :-)
Tom

Actually you can use the PC program ADF Opus to look in adf disk files and
copy any of their content out of them. You could therefore open the adf and
copy the 512k kickstart image out of the disk and use it with WinUAE.

[Coyote Seven]

It might be possible to extract the relevant data with a hex editor.
But you'd have to be able to tell where the Kickstart data begins and ends.

I did find out that if you plug in a bootstrap rom image into WinUAE in
place of kickstart, it will then happily accept an ADF kickstart disk
image and load it. Then you could use KickGrab to save that Kickstart
to a ROM image file.

Pretty scary, huh?

Post by Harrison
Actually you can use the PC program ADF Opus to look in adf disk files and
copy any of their content out of them. You could therefore open the adf and
copy the 512k kickstart image out of the disk and use it with WinUAE.

With ADF Opus you can examine adf images with a regular amiga file system.
But a kickstart disk doesn't contain a regular file system. It consists of
a boot block which is more or less the boot loader for the following
kickstart image dump. A Kickdisk is similar to a bootable demo or game
disk - there are no regular files or directory entries on such a disk and
it is therefore refused by ADF Opus.
Tom

[colin]

http://www.bitmine.net/~bayard/teleblivion/amiga/kick13.zip

[colin]

Post by colin
http://www.bitmine.net/~bayard/teleblivion/amiga/kick13.zip

and for those that (?)want to complain to my isp
already cancelled.

[colin]

Post by colin

Post by colin
http://www.bitmine.net/~bayard/teleblivion/amiga/kick13.zip

and for those that (?)want to complain to my isp
already cancelled.

further-more ...I`d like to use an alternative OS; such as AROS
(minilinux)......