Firmware Instructions (1.6)

Many new features have been added since 1.2 including support for Oxyron's 
"OpenOxypport", the latest input.device and the patched ram-handler from 
Aminet. There is now one version of the firmware which should work on all 
systems. 

To install the firmware, use at least CoyoteFlash 1.4 to add the file to 
the firmware slot of the KickFlash OS4 card. You can now add 512 KB 
Kickstart ROM's to use with Cyberstorm MK1/2/3/PPC, A3640 and BlizzardPPC 
boards.

Additionally you can add a 256 KB 34.005 Kickstart to enable Retro
Kickstart remapping. This feature allows you to start as a Kickstart 1.3
machine when holding the joystick button during reset. During the Kickstart
1.3 floppy screen, you can press the left mouse button to disable the CPU
caches. To use the retro mapping in combination with the 512 KB Kickstart
remapping, join the two files by entering the CLI and type for example:

join devs:rom34.005 devs:rom3.1 TO newrom

The order of the two rom files is not important. The firmware will now use 
the rom3.1 file if the Kickstart was not remapped and use the rom34.005 
file if the joystick button is pressed during the reset.

Please visit www.coyoteflux.nl for more information and updates.


Short instructions about the floppy save routines:
 
Just insert a write-enabled disk into DF0: and enable the write protection
of the Kickflash OS4 card. This will save the CoyoteFlash archive
to disk. The archive is packed using LHA and contains the documentation
and necessary files. 

IMPORTANT: Make sure the disk is formatted with the Fast File System 
           before using it!

If the writing to disk succeeds, the screen will turn green. If the screen 
turns red, something went wrong during the write process. If the machine
boots, it means there is an allocation problem. Please let us know and 
fetch the latest file from www.coyoteflux.nl (at the FlashTools part of 
the website). Disable the write protection and reboot to install the 
firmware 1.6 from the floppy disk.

Currently the following features are supported:

* Kickstart remapping for Cyberstorm MK1, MK2, MK3, PPC, Commodore A3640
  and BlizzardPPC boards.
  
* Retro Kickstart remapping for any CPU card. This feature uses Relokick's
  internal relocation table to kick back to a 34.005 Kickstart 1.3 system.
  It requires the Kickstart 34.005 ROM as found in older A500s and supports
  disabling the caches by pressing the left mousebutton during the KS 1.3 
  floppy boot screen.

* Installation of AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 ROM Updates. It has been tested with
  several beta's as well and all of them work so far.

* Nearly any kind of resident module. Some PrepareEmul-like programs have 
  been reported to work and additionally OpenOXYPPort (from OxyPatcher) can 
  be added to be executed from Flash.
  
* Up to 29 external resident modules (excluding AmigaOS ROM Updates)

The KickFlashSaveFirmware is the file originally supplied with the Flash
card. This firmware can only save away the CoyoteDiskBlock file (when
available in the first slot) and contains nothing else in the firmware. 
So make sure to replace your firmware with version 1.6 the first time 
you install the modules!

