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- CoyoteFlash Instructions (1.4)
-
- Introduction
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-
- CoyoteFlash is a program designed for the individual Computers FlashROM
- card. It allows the user to freely modify the contents of the flash
- chips on board.
-
- Requirements
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-
- The program should work on all Amiga's with at least Kickstart 2.04 or
- up. An individual Computers Kickflash OS4 card is required as well.
-
- Installation
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-
- Use the supplied installer or drag the CoyoteFlash drawer to any place on
- your harddisk. It should work from both Workbench and the CLI, without the
- need of any external files except asl.library.
-
- Usage
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-
- * (Flash) Load
-
- Allows the user to load the contents of the FlashROM to a mirror file in
- memory. The entire 1024KB will be loaded.
-
- * (Flash) Save
-
- Will save the mirror file to the flash card. If the filesystem is
- recognized, it will only save the part which is in use. Elsewise, it will
- save the complete 1024KB.
-
- * (Image) Load
-
- Allows the user to load a mirror file rom disk. This file can easily be
- edited or written using the Flash Save button.
-
- * (Image) Save
-
- Saves an entire image to disk. Handy to backup the contents of a flash
- card at once.
-
- * (Other) Firmware
-
- Replaces the firmware of the flashcard or mirror with a new one. Make
- sure that the firmware selected is an official one. A bad firmware can
- crash the machine on bootup!
-
- When the firmware is written it will ask if the card should only install
- modules when KickStart 3.1 is present. This is only useful for people who
- are using another KickStart remapper and do not have KickStart 3.1 ROM
- chips. In this case the firmware will skip the ROM module install process
- when KS3.1 is not available yet.
-
- IMPORTANT: If you are using the 512KB Kickstart remapping feature for
- Cyberstorm MK1, MK2, MK3, CSPPC, BlizzardPPC or A3640 cards, please
- answer NO to this question!
-
- * (Other) Format
-
- This button contains two different modes:
-
- 1. Format
-
- Allows the user to format the mirror file or flashcard. The entire mirror
- file or flashcard will be emptied and an empty filesystem will be added.
-
- 2. Diagnostics
-
- Shows some information about the flashcard and its contents. The firmware
- version is displayed and the sector protection. Sector protection is a
- hardware process which can not be modified from software. Therefore all
- the sectors should always be write enabled. When a 'X' is present, the
- sector is protected.
-
- * (Other) Add ROM
-
- Allows the user to add a KickStart ROM or AmigaOS ROM Updates. They are
- always added to the mirror file (not to flash) and can be saved using the
- Flash Save button. It will automatically tell if the firmware supports
- KickStart remapping or not and will ignore the file on bootup if remapping
- is not supported. The only way to remove the KickStart file is to click on
- the 'ROMK Kickstart ROM' line of the programs file browser. To use the
- Retro Kickstart remapping feature of firmware 1.6 or higher, simply
- add the 34.005 Kickstart file to the ROMK slot or if you would like to use
- the 512KB Kickstart remapping as well, join the files. For example typing
- the following in the CLI:
-
- join devs:rom34.005 devs:rom3.1 TO newrom
-
- will create a 768KB file which can be added to make use of both features.
- The order of joining makes no difference.
-
- Coyote Flux or Individual Computers will NOT send Kickstart ROM files to
- anybody, so please do not bother asking us!
-
- AmigaOS ROM Updates can be added, Setpatch should autodetect the modules
- if everything is installed correctly. Since the early bootup can be very
- dependent on different hardware, please report any problems to the authors
- and leave a message about the hardware on which it fails.
-
- CoyoteFlash will automatically ask which modules you want to install or
- not.
-
- Like with the KickStart ROM, the only way to remove the AmigaOS ROM modules
- is by clicking the 'ROMU AmigaOS ROM Update' line of the program's
- file browser.
-
- * File/Module adding
-
- When the board is unused, the first file present will be CoyoteDiskBlock.
- This file is the actual data written to disk on bootup. Removing this file
- is required, but it will remove the functionality of saving on bootup.
- Since version 1.52, the firmware for saving has been added to the
- Coyote Flash archive saved to the floppy disk. When the CoyoteDiskBlock
- file is added to the Kickflash card, it must always be in the first "FILE"
- slot to be recognized and saved to disk on bootup.
-
- Nearly any kind of resident module should work now, just make sure not to
- install two different modules with the same name at once (such as both the
- scsi.device from the AmigaOS ROM Update as well as another seperate file).
- The OpenOXYPPort CLI command from Oxyron's OxyPatcher can be added as well
- for installation directly from the Flash card.
-
- Adding and removing files is easy. Just press on any slot and it will add
- a file when the slot is empty. If the slot it set, it will ask if you would
- like to remove the file. Added files are ALWAYS loaded to the first slot
- available and will only affect the mirror file until Flash Save is used.
-
- Since CoyoteFlash 1.4, you can also press the Add File button to add files.
- This is the only way to add files if the first nine file slots are already
- in use.
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