Amiga 1000 SoftKick Tools by Eirik Risholm (3M)

(C) 1995-96 Bensin Software / Psilocybe Productions

THERE IS NO WARRANTY WHATSOEVER ON THIS SOFTWARE AND ANY FAILURES
OR DAMANGE PHYSICALY OR IN ANY OTHER WAY IS NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY.
IF YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS THESE PIECES OF SOFTWARE ARE ALL YOURS
AND ARE FREELY DISTRIBUTABLE.




Requirements A1000 (A500/A2000) with RealFAST at $200000 ->
Soft-/Re-/Z-Kicked Kickstart at $200000.

For Freekick and recovery of kick a harddisk is almost required although
floppy is possible it will be awfully slow.


These utilities are made for use on Amiga 1000 computers,
the greatest of them all (compare sound and RGB quality, and it's the best).
KickReboot and PatchColdReboot will however work on all SoftKick $200000
machines.



FreeKICKRAM

Utility to free the KickRAM on Amiga1000 models, this memory is
only usable every second reset and is then writable by the
Amiga1000 BootStrapLoader and when the new kickstart executes
a reset the KickRAM is writeprotected. SoftKicks only perform one
reset (usually), and the KickRAM is write enabled when the OS3.1
or whatever kickstart is running. So what FreeKICKRAM does is
to add this RAM to the freelist, so that it can be used as
FAST memory. 

YOU MUST HAVE REKICKED KICKSTART TO USE THIS UTILITY!


StoreKICKRAM

Saves Kickstart to the assign FREEKICK: for restore to KICKRAM before
reset done by KICKReboot or PatchColdReboot.

THIS UTILITY MUST BE RUN BEFORE FREEKICKRAM OR YOU WILL HAVE MEMORY
SAVED INTO THE KICKFILE.

KICKReboot

This utility checks the Kickstart in KICKRAM and if it's not present
it will be loaded from FREEKICK:DiskKickstart, and then it
does a "Heavy Magic" (as named by Commodore) reboot which makes
the computer reset once then use the CoolCapture to start a code
which sets up a fake execbase (as the kickstart would do) before
it sends control to the Kickstart at $200000. The reset is neccesary
because it resets periperal devices such as Harddisks etc. so they can
be reinitialized, therefore the old kickstart must be in KickRAM.

PatchColdReboot

This utility patches the Exec/ColdReboot function so that a 
call to _LVOColdReboot will do KickReboot instead.
Programs use ColdReboot to perform a reset. (if they are legally coded)
Because of some reason Exec itself doesn't use this function to reset(???)
it bangs on the hardware so a "Software Failure" and "Reset" will
crash and ask for KICKDisk. A patch will be made later, both for
the magnificent ResetWarning on A1000 Keyboards and a CoolCapture
routine for recovering after a crash (not with free KICKRAM though).


Send suggestions, money, questions, bugreports  etc. to SnailMail:

 Eirik Risholm
 Barkgata 8
 N-6500 Kristiansund
 NORWAY

 or call Voice +47 71 67 81 59, cellular +47? 90 08 03 91

If you want e-mail send to Morsteen@sn.no, remember to include
my name becuase it's a friends address.

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