1. SaveROM Help SaveROM 36.2 for the Amiga by Tim Ocock All use of this program is at your own risk! Any harm caused to you or your property as a result of use of this program is not my fault. This program musnot be used to break any law. If you do so it is your responsibility and you are acknowledging that I am free from responsibility. 2. Background This program is intended to read the ROMs of Amiga computers out to files which may then be used to soft-kick (run the computer with the OS in RAM) the computer using a program such as MapROM or ReKick (if you don't have an MMU). The reasons why you may wish to do this are for testing of different versions of the OS and to get a speed up in the running of the system if the ROM is in Fast RAM as it is normally faster than ROM. The downside is that you lose memory equal to the size of the ROM, which is currently 512K, though it is 256K on WB 1.3 and before and may be increased in the future. The normal place to store the file is DEVS:Kickstart though SaveROM does not impose this on you. The program should work with any size of ROM, though it may not in the future if they drastically change the format of the ROM chip. It has been tested on the following machines: Amiga1200 with 4MB RAM, Kickstart 39.106 (512K) and 60MB Hard disk It should work with any other versions of the ROMs. Currently, it is necessary to run the program on a remote machine if the ROM of a pre-V36 is to be read. Please notify me if you succesfully capture the image of any non-512K sized ROM. There are some very important legal rules that apply to use of this program and it is imperative that you read them. This program is different from the program SaveROM that is part of the ShapeShifter Mac emulator package. That program does the same job but for Apple Macintosh computers. 3. Requirements Any Amiga with Kickstart 2 or above. This may be fixed so that the 256K ROMs of older machines may be read. 4. Usage From CLI: NAME/A : The name of the file that will be created, normally Kickstart From WB: A script is provided so that using the tool IconX the script can be run from its Workbench icon. Note that it is usual for the process to take some time. 5. Future Enhancements * Make the program work on any Amiga * Work with any future size of ROM * Improve the presentation of this document * Any suggestions you send me... 6. About the Author I am Tim Ocock and I am currently a Year 12 student at school in London. I have been programming the Amiga for some time now and don't intend to stop! If anyone has any suggestions for programs or improvements to this or any of my other programs then I would love to hear from you. I can be contacted at FidoNet 2:251/521.14 ICPUG South East I can also normally be found in the Fido echoes AMIGA and AMIGA_UK 7. Legal Issues The use of this program is not to breach international Copyright law. It is important that you understand that: 1) It is ILLEGAL to create or use a ROM image file created by this program on any computer unless you own the ROM from which it was made, and it may not be used simultaneously with the original ROM chip. 2) It is ILLEGAL to change, disassemble or in any way reverse engineer any file created through use of this program. Failure to comply will result in criminal prosecutions against you. I do not in any way condone use of this program to break the law. 8. Copyright This program and all its associated files are Copyright © 1995 Tim Ocock. All Rights Reserved. They may be distributed freeely so long as this archive and its files remain unchanged. No one may charge more than £1.50 for any disk containing this program. The AmiNet collection, on the InterNet and on CD (or any other format they choose) is exempt from this on the condition that they notify me if the program is published by them. Computer magazines may also distribute this software on their coverdisks provided they notify me by some means. "Amiga", "Kickstart", "Workbench" and all associated software and hardware components are Copyright © 1985-1992 Commodore-Amiga, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Escom now own the rights to Commodore-Amiga, Inc. 's properties, intellectual or otherwise.