Kickstart 1.3 Portable Amiga Emulator

UAE is the collaborative effort of a number of Amiga enthusiasts to create a portable Amiga emulator under the GNU Public License.

General compatibility is excellent, and there are a number of enhancements in WinUAE compared to a standard Amiga computer.

P96-RTG is implemented as a Zorro-III graphics-card to the Amiga.

Able to mount real hard disks with RDB and Amithlon partitions.

Kickstart 1.3 hardfiles now supported with FastFileSystem in KS roms directory.

Please note that I will be going on holiday soon and moving house in the new year, so all my Amigas will be packed up and will not be accessible for some time from now.

Today for my last blog post for 2018 I am taking a quick look at the installation of the recently released AmigaOS 3.1.4 by Hyperion Entertainment on my Amiga 500.

I bought my v3.1.4 release from Alinea Computer.

This 3.1.4 release also includes an updated 3.1.4 kickstart rom, which needs to be physically installed in the Amiga 500.

Kickstart 1.3 Registration Number On

You can register your kickstart rom registration number on Hyperion Entertainments website to get access to the rom file (for soft kicking on your Amigas if you dont want to use a physical kickstart rom).

You can also get the adf files of the Workbench v3.1.4 disk set to load up on the gotek, and some new icons created for the 3.1.4 release too.

So this rules out base model Amigas that have no expanded memory installed.

Instructions are included on how to install the kickstart rom in each Classic Amiga model supported by this release.

Note that this wont be installable on CD32 or CDTV, probably due to the differences in the roms to support auto booting CDs, Audio CD playback menus, etc.

Anyway, I set to work unscrewing my Amiga 500 again for another hardware upgrade.

Here is where I needed to do some configuration work before I could go much further.

The ACA500 CF card boots Workbench 3.1, which will not work properly with the new rom until I install the new Workbench 3.1.4 onto the CF card.

I also need to avoid using the soft kick 3.1 rom option in the ACA500, as I want it to use the onboard 3.1.4 kickstart rom instead.

So I needed to configure a custom profile, which I did as Profile 02.

I could then boot the Workbench 3.1.4 Install disk to get the installation to the CF card underway.

The gotek is using a A1000 kickstart disk adf so that it cant boot (in case you were wondering).

I then started the Workbench 3.1.4 installation, which works identically to the old Workbench 3.1 installations.

I decided to throw caution to the wind on this occasion and proceeded to let it delete what it thought it needed to.

This warning normally applies to 040 and 060 accelerator cards.

Update 161218: I have been informed on Facebook by Robert (cheers mate) that actually there IS a 68030 specific bug fixing library called mulib available on aminet here that should be installed as part of the installation.

Apparently this addresses a bug in the EC030 without an MMU installed, which applies to me since I have a A1200 accelerator with an EC030 installed.

I then extracted and installed the update and now the warning message on boot regarding this point (as below) goes away.

Update 181218: I downloaded the optional icon pack and bonus wallpapers from Hyperions website after registering my kickstart rom serial number.

Because the A500 is limited to 16 colours on the workbench, the new icons dont look that great (they do look ok in 16 colours though) as I think they are really intended for a RTG or AGA screen with 256 colours.

I plan to add Workbench 3.1.4 and kickstart roms to my A600, A1200, A4000D and A2000 too in due course I bought additional copies for each machine.

I hope you have enjoyed my blog this year, and I look forward to do more blogging in 2019.

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