> This one, a plain-jane 1040ST, is a Rev C m/b and has the original
>6-chip ROMs with TOS v1.00. I made a bootdisk to boot into TOS v2.06,
>which works fine at the expense of 256k of RAM, it's not a permanent
>solution. Are the 6-chip ROM images for v1.04 available anywhere? I've
>found the TOS ROMs here & there, but not the idividual chip images. Come
>to think of it, are the ROM chips soldered or socketed? I looked while
>cleaning it, and have already forgotten....
I believe it depended on the ST model. My MegaST came with
1.02 and I upgraded it to 1.04. It was two socketed chips. If I
remember correctly it would have taken an adapter of some sort to go
to a higher version than that in it. How did you boot 2.06 off of
floppy?
I've never had the pleasure of using a newer ST, such as the
Falcon or TT, but I was always annoyed by the low-res color screens.
This annoyed me on the Amiga too but you could do things on the A1000
that you couldn't on the ST, such as the 4,096 color HAM modes. My
Mega always runs the higher resolution mono monitor because of
this...too bad the screen is so small!
Jeff
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