| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
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Hi,
I recently got a MEGA2, unfortunately it speaks German.
I prefer it to speak English and would like to install a rom
version that does just that. A friend of mine is willing to
help me get TOS 2.06 roms which he uses in his MEGA-STE
Before we do the "openheart surgery" we would like
to hear from the experts:
The question now is :
does the mega2 use the same Rom as the (faster) STE ?
Any problems upgrading from TOS 1.4 6-chip romset to
(256 k ?) to 2-chip romset (1-mb) except for the jumper
setting ?
Hans
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1395.1 | No simple ROM swap possible :-( | EDDF10::ECKEL | No sports. | Fri Jan 14 1994 06:46 | 21 |
Hello Hans,
you can *not* simply replace TOS 1.04 ROMs by TOS 2.06 ROMs without at
least some additional hardware mangling. The address space of TOS 1.04
starts at $FC0000, that od TOS 2.06 has the first address $E00000. This
is because TOS 2.06 is a whole lot longer than 1.04, and it would have
conflicted with the memory mapped registers of the I/O chips.
There are some providers of TOS 2.06 adaption cards for the Mega ST and
other TOS 1.xx computers, one of which is ARTIFEX. I don't know of the
distribution channels outside of Germany, but I can look up the german
address this weekend. Probably they will be able to help you.
Regards,
Peter.
PS: Did you ever think of using a different operating system on your
ST? Since about three months I'm running Mag!X; it is rather
compatible, most of my ST software runs without problems, it has
preemptive multitasking *and it's faster than TOS*
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