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#Kickstart Help

#: 19546 S7/ProgrammingForum unknown
    21-May-86 01:22:51
Sb: #19528-#Kickstart Help
Fm: John Mesiavech 75076,1640
To: Bela Lubkin/Sysop 76703,3015

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Got this message on "another BBS system"..shows a way that one man has deprotected the WCS. It does have a problem tho..one you return from the program the Amy crashes and you need to re-Kick it. Here it is: Msg: #3338 Sec: 9 – Programmer's Corner Date: 18-MAY-86 01:36 PM To: John Mesiavech (F) (U) From: Ken Jordan Subj: Write Many Ram: I still haven't figured out how to write protect the ram but try this: –(in 68000 m.l.)-setsuperstate disable interupts & all dma do a RESET instruction (this pulls the reset pin so that everything resets except the 68000 which continues on) -presto- the 64k boot rom will be at 0 and you can write to kickstart (fc000000) (and read also). If you do this the hit ctrl-amiga-amiga the machine will see that the kickstart checksum is wrong and ask you to insert kickstart and WILL reload the kickstart proving that the ram was modified and gets reloaded. Like I say I am still reversing all of the roms to figure out just what re-write-protects the KS. —Hope this will help->Ken Jordan