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obarthel | 7 years ago
The next best thing is to load both the workbench.library and icon.library using the LoadModule command (which is part of the AmigaOS 3.1.4 update, if I remember correctly) and reboot your machine. Both libraries will then remain in memory as if they had been in the ROM. They will survive subsequent warm reboots, but they will consume RAM.
Loading the libraries in this manner can be handled by the Startup-Sequence, for example.
> Maybe try and release romable versions of workbench and icon library?
Both libraries are technically "fit" to go into ROM, if there were enough space available for them to fit ;-) They are "romable".
snvzz|7 years ago
As long as it's fast ram, it's pretty good for a next best thing. I wasn't aware.
>Both libraries are technically "fit" to go into ROM, if there were enough space available for them to fit ;-) They are "romable".
That's great news. I'm not sure where I heard they weren't. I'm hopeful tools to do that will pop up on Aminet :)
obarthel|7 years ago
The ROM changes which shipped with the AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 updates all exercised the same mechanism by which operating system modules loaded into RAM whose contents would survive a warm reset would supersede the contents of the ROM image.
If I remember correctly, the same tool (LoadModule) had been used then.
Documentation for these technical aspects has always been somewhat lacking I'm afraid... Not everyone wants to trawl the Amiga forums for hints on what is possible and how.
This time, however, there is an official FAQ on the web site of the company which sells the product and further pointers to more information on Amiga forums which cover the AmigaOS 3.1.4 update.
> That's great news. I'm not sure where I heard they weren't. I'm hopeful tools to do that will pop up on Aminet :)
You might want to have a look at Christian Vogelgsang's https://github.com/cnvogelg/amitools collection.