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Saija Grzegorek

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Jun 13, 2024, 5:49:03 AM6/13/24

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They are DOS versions but the AMIBCP2 something I have did not run (think it is corrupt), got it long ago and burned to cd but never got it to work with any old BIOS files. And currently cannot find it in my stack o crap. Odd that after usenet sort of died (now full of mostly movies) those old apps mostly disappeared. The old DOS and WIn groups are basically dead....

It works with bios cores from 95/96 not with earlier bios cores with later release dates. It opens quite well the 430fx bios from my aopen mobo. It does not work with Ami winbios for later 486 nor with earlier hi-flex cores.

Amibcp Version 5.0

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The oldest Windows version I have is 2.42. The oldest DOS version I have is 5.11E. It would be nice to get a hold of every version between 1.0 and 5.0, but I'm feeling pretty pessimistic about this. The odds are about as good as finding a MR BIOS image for the VLSI topcat.

What exactly are you all trying to customize in these BIOSes? It might be easier to make a tool from scratch. The pre-WinBIOS HiFlex ones are much easier to deal with though as they are not compressed.

I have tried many times , many ways, to get the archive of AMIBCP '94 V1.00 (for 10/10/94 core dated AMIBIOS). But have been unsuccessful. Wayback did not archive the 2004 files on those webpages ?
My best guess is it is the first Windows version of AMIPCP but could be wrong...

Again though, is there something specific you are trying to do with a 10/10/94 bios? Like the other thread I posted for non-WinBIOSes, it may be easier to analyze the bios and figure out how to do what you want, although it'll be more complicated.

No. Am looking to get as many versions of the original AMIBCP tool as possible for archive purposes. Have a few v2.x for Win but no v1.x and thought it might help evasive.
Some of us collect old hardware and software because we want too not because we need it now but may need it later..
fixed my boo-booo

About this, I'd like to know what versions you have and if you can find them. Even if they're broken, they'll still be useful for screenshots and images. If you can find them, please do send them here. Thanks.

Hey. Following the story of yesterday, where I found a few versions of Phoenix BIOS tools while scrubbing on my HDD archives... I also found a few versions of the AMI BIOS firmware tools, which I guess are worth of archiving too.

*AMI.ROMUtils.v627.10. Now, this one is more interesting. As it's name says, it was taken from Core v627 BIOS sources, and has an AMIBCP which was especifically designed for v6xx ROMs, and has full support for stuff as HiFLEX and WinBIOS. I was able to edit with it a PCCHIPS M710 ROM, which otherwise was corrupted when edited with later DOSExtended AMIBCP v7.x. Check you can't insert or delete modules with these older versions of AMIBCP, so they included both AMIMM and AMIEMBED tools for module manipulation. AMIEMBED is more powerful than AMIMM, as it can full manipulate (extract and insert) the "SLAB" (RUNTIME) module. Looks like AMIEMBED actually works with older versions of the core... I was able to edit modules on BIOSes as far as Pentium boards with it.

*AMIBCP_v6.21_v6.24T. These are even older versions of the ones included in the v627 toolset above. BCP621 goes back as 1994, so it should be able to edit later 486 and Pentium ROMs (as long as the manufactured didn't something tricky to their codebase customization). Ofc them have HiFLEX and WinBIOS support too. As with BCP from v627 toolset, you can't manipulate modules from the application. For that you can try with AMIMM or AMIEMBED from the suppplied v627 tools.

I also have a sort of sample OEM Adaptation Kits for AMIBIOS Core v800 and v627 (taken from some chinese BIOS book CDs, I guess was what PCCHIPS used to train their engineers, as the books mostly talk about SiS and RiSE chipsets, used throughfully by that company to create cheap as peanuts boards). But I will not post them unless forum mods say it is safe to share these here.

Now, I tried AMIBCP v6.21 with a couple of ROMs I had at hand. These were dumped from 486 motherboards, a HiFlex from 1994 and a WinBIOS from 1995. Unfortunately on both of them I got the dreaded "ROM Header not found !" error when trying the "LOAD BIOS FROM DISK FILE" option. The same happened with 6.24, but I had tried that version before.

Thanks for posting these versions! 6.24T uses the HiFlex default instead of the Color default, and can edit the Hardware Monitor tab on BIOSes retaining support for WinBIOS and Hiflex client editing. It also doesn't have the I/O header error which a previous version of 6.24 non T had on here, meaning you can load a BIOS from within the program. 6.21 is very close to 6.24 and there isn't much difference between the two, aside from one being older and maybe slower. 6.24E is a dud and does not work, attempting to load a bios but then blocking you off from loading it with an Evaluation message even when the date is set back. Perhaps someone could remove the Evaluation block on 6.24E and W5.11E (posted here a while ago, broken and also evaluation) to get something useful out of them, especially as W5.11E is the only availible version of AMIBCP 5 on the Internet AFAIK.

Gah, just spent far too long fussing with an archived partition image in xubuntu, thought there was something wrong with it because lubuntu mounts it automagically, when xubuntu won't, and won't mount from inside parted... well so much for the "easy" way, mount did it of course, doh. Anyhoo, I thought it was THE glorious treasure trove of BIOS modding tools, but turned out just to be Award stuff. Not to get y'all's hopes up, but there's another drive I need to find and check out, don't have a timetable though, don't hold your breath, save your appetite or cancel your prostate exam though, could be sometime around the next summer olympics plus or minus 5 years.