![]() You can not remove all ROM chips but neither can you do so on a PC. You can actually remove 4 from the 6 ROM chips and the Atari can still execute the boot sector. When TOS tests for an executable bootsector only the BIOS is active, just like on a PC. Also most demos completely bypass all ROM OS routines after the boot sector is executed. The modern ST's have the complete OS in ROM but you can still boot a new OS from a floppy, like MiNT of Magic or Linux on Falcon or TT. The first ST had also only BIOS in ROM, the rest of the OS was loaded from floppy. ![]() This can be MS DOS 3.30, windows 95, Windows XP, Linux, Free BSD etc. Like if somebody stole your TOS chipsĪ normal PC comes with the BIOS in ROM. Yes, I thought it myself, but this means that the TOS is still loaded, right? I mean, my friend was "challenging" with the idea of using the machine with a complete different OS. ![]() Use TOS as a simple BIOS to load the first bootsector and user whatever code from that to boot a custom kernel to takeover the machine. Simonsunnyboy wrote:Well most autobooting demos and games do that.
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