A3000 kickstart

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2 total messages Started by Douglas Ghormley Sun, 01 Nov 1992 22:46

Author: Douglas Ghormley
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 22:46

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I recently upgraded from an old A2000 to a used A3000.  Nice computer.  However!!  Occasionally
when I try to run a program, I get a requester saying that I don't have the correct
version of KickStart.  The A3000 apparently has v36.143 while some (many?) programs need v37.175
or higher (which my A2000 had).  I just bought the 2.04 OS upgrade about 6 months ago,
and it didn't come with a kickstart disk (or at least not that I can find -- somebody please
tell me if the upgrade kit is supposed to have one with it).

So my question is -- is there any way for me to get the v36.143 KickStart on my new A3000
without having to buy the upgrade kit again?  What the deal?  Is there some way to dump
the kickstart out of ROM on the 2000 onto disk and then just use it to boot the 3000?
Can somebody just e-mail me a lhwarp'd, zoom'd, or dms'd copy of a A3000 kickstart disk?
That's probably not strictly legal, but I really, really hate to have to buy the whole
upgrate kit again.

Any ideas?

Doug

Re: A3000 kickstart

Author: "The Coolest Guy "
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 17:26

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ghorm@shuksan.CS.Berkeley.EDU  writes:
> I recently upgraded from an old A2000 to a used A3000.  Nice computer.  However!!  Occasionally
> when I try to run a program, I get a requester saying that I don't have the correct
> version of KickStart.  The A3000 apparently has v36.143 while some (many?) programs need v37.175
> or higher (which my A2000 had).  I just bought the 2.04 OS upgrade about 6 months ago,
> and it didn't come with a kickstart disk (or at least not that I can find -- somebody please
> tell me if the upgrade kit is supposed to have one with it).
> 
> So my question is -- is there any way for me to get the v36.143 KickStart on my new A3000
> without having to buy the upgrade kit again?  What the deal?  Is there some way to dump
> the kickstart out of ROM on the 2000 onto disk and then just use it to boot the 3000?
> Can somebody just e-mail me a lhwarp'd, zoom'd, or dms'd copy of a A3000 kickstart disk?
> That's probably not strictly legal, but I really, really hate to have to buy the whole
> upgrate kit again.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Doug

My A3000 originally came with out OS 2.04.  I received that
from Commodore in the mail about a month later.  It had the
2.04 SuperKickstart Disk with it which you need to install -
The 2.04 Kickstart is in fact 37.175 as far as my machine is
concerned. You might want to contact your local dealer or
Commodore themselves in an effort to get the disk you need.

If you want to save yourself 512k of Ram, you could buy the
roms instead.  

Hope I could be of some assistance!

J Porter

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