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- Firmware Instructions (1.6)
-
- Many new features have been added since 1.2 including support for Oxyron's
- "OpenOxypport", the latest input.device and the patched ram-handler from
- Aminet. There is now one version of the firmware which should work on all
- systems.
-
- To install the firmware, use at least CoyoteFlash 1.4 to add the file to
- the firmware slot of the KickFlash OS4 card. You can now add 512 KB
- Kickstart ROM's to use with Cyberstorm MK1/2/3/PPC, A3640 and BlizzardPPC
- boards.
-
- Additionally you can add a 256 KB 34.005 Kickstart to enable Retro
- Kickstart remapping. This feature allows you to start as a Kickstart 1.3
- machine when holding the joystick button during reset. During the Kickstart
- 1.3 floppy screen, you can press the left mouse button to disable the CPU
- caches. To use the retro mapping in combination with the 512 KB Kickstart
- remapping, join the two files by entering the CLI and type for example:
-
- join devs:rom34.005 devs:rom3.1 TO newrom
-
- The order of the two rom files is not important. The firmware will now use
- the rom3.1 file if the Kickstart was not remapped and use the rom34.005
- file if the joystick button is pressed during the reset.
-
- Please visit www.coyoteflux.nl for more information and updates.
-
-
- Short instructions about the floppy save routines:
-
- Just insert a write-enabled disk into DF0: and enable the write protection
- of the Kickflash OS4 card. This will save the CoyoteFlash archive
- to disk. The archive is packed using LHA and contains the documentation
- and necessary files.
-
- IMPORTANT: Make sure the disk is formatted with the Fast File System
- before using it!
-
- If the writing to disk succeeds, the screen will turn green. If the screen
- turns red, something went wrong during the write process. If the machine
- boots, it means there is an allocation problem. Please let us know and
- fetch the latest file from www.coyoteflux.nl (at the FlashTools part of
- the website). Disable the write protection and reboot to install the
- firmware 1.6 from the floppy disk.
-
- Currently the following features are supported:
-
- * Kickstart remapping for Cyberstorm MK1, MK2, MK3, PPC, Commodore A3640
- and BlizzardPPC boards.
-
- * Retro Kickstart remapping for any CPU card. This feature uses Relokick's
- internal relocation table to kick back to a 34.005 Kickstart 1.3 system.
- It requires the Kickstart 34.005 ROM as found in older A500s and supports
- disabling the caches by pressing the left mousebutton during the KS 1.3
- floppy boot screen.
-
- * Installation of AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 ROM Updates. It has been tested with
- several beta's as well and all of them work so far.
-
- * Nearly any kind of resident module. Some PrepareEmul-like programs have
- been reported to work and additionally OpenOXYPPort (from OxyPatcher) can
- be added to be executed from Flash.
-
- * Up to 29 external resident modules (excluding AmigaOS ROM Updates)
-
- The KickFlashSaveFirmware is the file originally supplied with the Flash
- card. This firmware can only save away the CoyoteDiskBlock file (when
- available in the first slot) and contains nothing else in the firmware.
- So make sure to replace your firmware with version 1.6 the first time
- you install the modules!
-
-