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Whitesnake - May 13, 2004

		Whitesnake	May 13, 2004
		Calling out all Amiga buff's i'm searching for a 3-Way Kick Switch for my Amiga. I've searched Ebay but no luck... also other various auction site's and places, If anyone know's of a retailer that still produces Kick Switch's then please tell me. :cheers

		it290	May 13, 2004
		Looks pretty nice, but why not just softkick?

		ExCyber	May 13, 2004
		I'm not (yet) an Amiga guru, but as I understand it rekicking eats up 512K of Fast RAM and takes longer than a direct boot.

		Whitesnake	May 13, 2004
		The idea of the kick switch is simple all it does it change the rom.. i don't believe it would eat up any of the fast ram. The only main side effects you would have with older kick's is certain things being disabled such as the IDE interface on the a600 or the extended memory and various other small things. But all in all that is fine because the idea of it is to make it act like an older system which it does or a newer system which it does also enabling you to run the latest Amiga OS. With expansion cards too of course depending on your Amiga model.

		Whitesnake	May 13, 2004
		Originally posted by it290@May 13, 2004 @ 04:29 PM Looks pretty nice, but why not just softkick? Doesn't cure incompatibily issue's that older or newer games have that depend on instructions in the Kick Rom Chip

		it290	May 13, 2004
		Yes, softkicking eats up Fast RAM, but that doesn't really matter if you're using it to play old games anyway. I never had any ROM related incompatibility problems either, only CPU/peripheral related issues.