Saturday, August 4, 2012

Kickstart roms???

The DraCo as mentioned earlier is a compatible Amiga architecture hardware, that runs AmigaOS. On amigaland, the kickstart rom contains the boot up code and some essential parts of the operrating system.

 (picture taken from http://www.amigakit.com)
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/images/amiga-roms.jpg

The DraCo uses a two set Amiga 3000 kickstart roms (version 40.68 which usually come with AmigaOS 3.1) .  In some DraCo models, these two roms are integrated into a single one, which in that case, it is wrongly labeled version 40.63, despite being just the same 40.68.

(picture taken from DaMi http://draco.efektivne.eu/index_1.htm)
 

The DraCo upon boot heavily patches the mentioned rom contents to make itself more compatible with AmigaOS and also provides drivers for its peculiar hardware by adding and renaming RomTags/Modules.

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