MiSTer FPGA Forum

Has anyone been able to get the AROS ROM running on MiSTer, given the ROM is larger than any kickstart.

Searching online there was work done for the original Mist to support larger ROMs (like the extension ROM option in WinUAE I guess) but I've drawn a blank since.

Minimig has support for 1M Kickstarts. If you select a file of size 1M, the first half will be loaded to $e00000 and the second to $f80000.

I was looking at trying this recently but could not even get it to run in WinUAE. I thought the m68k backport was designed to run with the normal Kickstart. Did I misread?

You find everything there is to know about Kickstart size support in the file

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_Mi ... config.cpp

and function UploadKickstart.

AROS ROM should work on minimig, at least for floppy images. What probably doesn't work is HDD support - there are some issues with IDE implementation, or maybe just AROS incompatibility. Will be fixed sometime.

R4M wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 6:55 pm Minimig has support for 1M Kickstarts. If you select a file of size 1M, the first half will be loaded to $e00000 and the second to $f80000.

R4M wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:14 pm You find everything there is to know about Kickstart size support in the file

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_Mi ... config.cpp

and function UploadKickstart.

Thanks for this!

So it wasn't working for me because I was concatenating aros-bin.rom and aros-ext.rom with copy /b aros-bin.rom+aros-ext.rom, leading to the bin.rom being loaded to $e0 and the ext.rom being loaded to $f8 (the wrong way around). Looking at the code, the main rom should load to $f8 by default, so I was loading the ROMs the wrong way around.

One and I got an AROS boot screen!