Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!mmdf From: AB100%DK0RRZK0.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Kickstart-ROM and tar Message-ID: <5812@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 5 Dec 88 18:24:32 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 28 A friend of mine has the following question: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, folks. I have been feeding my Amiga 1000 with its beloved Kickstart Disk for ages now. Does any one know how to add Kickstart-ROMS to the expansion port of the A1000 ? Is it as easy as just putting the ROMS on a proper board with address and data bus buffers and giving them a chip-select signal at $FC0000 ? Or do I have to patch the contents of Kickstart somewhere ? Thanks, Uwe. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another question: Has anyone ported the pd-tar program to the amiga? It is used on the Atari ST and on several UN*X-Machines. It archives whole directory trees in one file. Then this file can be compressed with compress. Then the compression rate is much higher than using arc or zoo. Thanks, Ortwin . AB100@DK0RRZK0.bitnet