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Short: MapROM tool for Blizzard turbos. V1.18.
Author: no-email@for.now (Harry "Piru" Sintonen)
Version: 1.18
Type: util/boot
Requires: OS 1.0+, Blizzard turbo with MAPROM feature or CPU Card
Replaces: util/boot/BlizKick.lha
Important: I am having my military service till 31th December 1999,
so I might not be as active as before. You can find me from IRC
occasionally as Piru (on channels #amiga, #AmigaFIN, #amycoders and
so on) though. CU on next millenium. ;)
BlizKick is used to rekick any Kickstart ROM image with Blizzard turbo
boards having MAPROM feature (jumper). Also A4000 CPU & Cyberstorm Cards
should work. BlizKick has been tested with BLIZZARD 1230-I, 1230-II,
1230-III, 1230-IV, 1240-T/ERC, 1260, 2040-ERC, 2060, CyberStorm MK III,
CyberStorm PPC and Blizzard PPC boards. Kickstart 1.2, 1.3, 2.04, 2.05,
3.0 and 3.1 are currently tested ROM images.
BlizKick main features include:
*NEW* in V1.18:
- Full source code is included as usual.
- Added BPPCFix module for WarpOS lowers. I personally like PowerUP
better but lots of ppl asked this.
V1.17:
- EXTRES buffer was overwritten by blizzppc/csppc kernel,
fixed with 1mb extra alloc.
V1.16:
- Removed rom checksum disable from SPEEDROM.
- Added ramlibstack module.
- Again tried to fix CS MK II support. Maybe I get it right some day.
Ta ChaoZer. (it doesn't seem to work atm :\)
- Fixed some stuff in places. I hope I didn't break anything. =)
- Fixed guide a bit.
V1.15:
- Fixed memory node area for CS MK II. It could work now. Ta ChaoZer.
- Fixed guide about Blizzzard PPC, read it.
- Fixed installation script. ;)
V1.14:
- Deleted ffs62 module, it never worked.
WARNING: DO NOT USE FFS62 MODULE, GET RID OF IT!
- Fixed support for KS 1.1NTSC and 1.1PAL
V1.13:
- Fixed BlizzPPC support.
- FusionReserve module has been working all the time, just
get FixPATCHMAC.lha from aminet and use it.
- Fixed bug from CS MK II support. Maybe it finally works.
- Some improvements to BlizKick_install script.
- Added NewIcons for BlizKick.guide and Free100buf.
V1.12:
- ß9: Added support for Blizzard PPC
- ß9: Fixed CS MKII support (I hope:).
- ß8: Public source code release! See BlizKick.guide/history.
- ß7: Rewrote board detection to be more clean & robust. Now
adding new boards is a lot easier.
- ß7: Hehe... Fixed some bugs... Now it works with CS PPC (tested)
and CS MKIII at least.
- ß6: SHOULD WORK WITH CPU CARDS NOW!! (CBM A4000 CPU Cards,
Cyberstorm MKI, MKIII and PPC at least. Cyberstorm MKII, MKIII
and PPC are detected automatically, so don't specify CPUCARD
switch with those).
- ß5: Fixed PatchMath020 module to patch non-64bit mul/div on 68060.
- ß5: Fixed stupid movem bug from SpeedyChip module.
- ß5: Tried another approach in RebootFix module.
- ß5: FusionReserve module still doesn't work. :(
- ß4: Fixed little bug from ROM image validation.
- ß4: Hopefully finally fixed FusionReserve module. ;)
- ß4: Added two modules: RebootFix to fix problems with A1200
and 060 (at least with BLIZZARD 1260) reboot when display
is in multisync mode, and SpeedyChip module for patching 060
MMU lists improving chip memory write speed!
- ß3: Now KS 1.x are only patched if they're original.
- ß2: CPU Cards should work after SetPatch now.
- ß2: Hopefully fixed FusionReserve module.
- ß2: Added two new modules: A1000Jingle (Try it out! ;) and
PatchMath020 (Optimizes C-compiler math routines).
- ß1: Should work with (A4000?) CPU Cards! See CPUCARD switch.
- ß1: New module: FusionReserve substituting RsrvCold of FUSION MAC
emulator.
- SCSIDEV43 module; kick V43 beta scsi.device. No more 4GB limit!
NOTE: You need V43 beta scsi.device in file DEVS:scsi43.device.
- MAPROM jumper OFF detection fixed, it had been broken since v1.9...
- Free100buf program for freeing buffer created by ChipSaver module.
- Tested with Kickstart 2.04 (37.175).
- ChipSaver, RemCards, SpeedyIDE and WaitIDE modules.
- EXTRESBUF is put into fast memory, instead of chip!
- BBlank & NewAlert modules by Jens Lorenz.
- BKMODPATH env-variable.
- QUIET switch.
- KICKFILE * can be used to kick original ROM found on chip.
- LOCALFAST relocates memheaders to fast memory.
- SoftSCSI module.
- Support for BLIZZARD 1240-T/ERC, 2040-ERC and 2060!
- Fixed bug from EXTRESBUF. Now it really should work with on all boards.
- ROM address validity test to rule out some invalid ROM images.
- XPK support for KICKFILE.
- Support for hackdisk.device!
- Can be run any time (no more need to start before SetPatch on 1260)
- EXTRESBUF feature: Can use memory outside ROM image for "modules". No
more "iffucient ROM space" -problem!
- Can replace PrepareEmul tool 100%
- Has possibility to plant ResidentTag modules into ROM image!
(13 example modules included, plus assembler source code for all of
them!)
- Can restore the original Kickstart.
- Has built-in FastWaitBlit patch.
- Uses Blizzard board's own MAPROM feature (jumper).
- No kickstart file preparation or similar is needed. You can just save any
ROM image and give it to BlizKick!
- Can make memory on Blizzard board LOCAL, bypass flashy boot of the board
and speed up ROM boot.
- Doesn't use MMU, KickMem, KickTag, ColdCapture or CoolCapture vectors.
-> 100% transparent!
- BlizKick is as OS compatible as possible: Doesn't use any additional
memory (except those 512K and memory used by EXTRESBUF, if specified),
coolcapture, coldcapture, kickmem or kicktag vectors.
- Works with KS 1.0+ There's really no use for this, except for restoring
original Kickstart after using Kickstart 1.x. Well, maybe some freaks
like to boot KS 3.x from floppy... ;-)
- Tested with BLIZZARD 1230-I @ 40MHz, BLIZZARD 1230-II @ 40MHz, BLIZZARD
1230-III @ 50MHz, BLIZZARD 1230-IV @ 50 MHz, BLIZZARD 1240-T/ERC @ 40
MHz, BLIZZARD 1260 @ 50MHz, BLIZZARD 2040-ERC @ 40 MHz, BLIZZARD 2060
@ 50 MHz, CyberStorm MK III @ 50MHz, CyberStorm PPC @ 200MHz and
Blizzard PPC @ 240MHz turbo boards.
- FreeWare! Copyright © 1996-1999 PitPlane Productions.
( Latest BlizKick beta release plus some other programs by me can be found
from http://www.jyu.fi/~sintonen/AmigaPrograms.html )
IMPORTANT: www.jyu.fi/~sintonen/ pages are (currently) badly outdated.