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Kickstart 3.0 ROM chips installed in an Amiga 1200 Kickstart 1.2 floppy disk. Kickstart is the bootstrap firmware of the Amiga computers developed by Commodore International.Its purpose is to initialize the Amiga hardware and core components of AmigaOS and then attempt to boot from a bootable volume, such as a floppy disk.
1.0 – 1.1 3.1 / 3.9 [note 1] / 3.2 [note 2] Later A1000s shipped with 512 KB base memory Amiga 2000 A-model 1987 68000 1 MB: 1.2 3.9 / 3.2 First desktop Amiga with internal expansion slots used the Amiga 1000 chipset 512 KB Chip RAM, 512 KB Fast RAM on CPU slot card Amiga 500: 1987–1991 68000 512 KB 1.2 – 1.3 3.1 / 3.2
Amiga Workbench 1.0 Amiga boot screen (Kickstart 1.3). Workbench 1.0 was released for the first time in October 1985. [5] The 1.x series of Workbench defaults to a distinctive blue and orange color scheme, designed to give high contrast on even the worst of television screens (the colors can be changed by the user).
Due to the inclusion of Kickstart 2.05, many software titles made for A1000 or A500 do not work on A600. [citation needed] A program, Relokick, was released (and included with an issue of CU Amiga) which loaded a Kickstart 1.3 ROM image into memory and booted the machine into Kickstart 1.3, allowing most incompatible software to run. Because ...
The Amiga Forever [2] emulation package offers legal copies of Kickstart, Workbench and various games. Another legal option for Amiga emulation is the AROS Research Operating System, which is available as free software. An AROS boot ROM can be used instead of Kickstart, which allows booting the m68k port of AROS from a floppy or CD image. [3]
The Kickstart ROM is not a custom chip but a mask-programmed ROM chip for most versions. It contains the largest part of the operating system . Kickstart 1.x ROMs have a capacity of 256 KiB , Kickstart 2.x and 3.x contain 512 KiB. 32-bit Amigas use a pair of 16-bit chips to provide full-width access.
The Amiga console is a standard Amiga virtual device, normally assigned to CON: and driven by console.handler.It was developed from a primitive interface in AmigaOS 1.1, and became stable with versions 1.2 and 1.3, when it started to be known as AmigaShell and its original handler was replaced by newconsole.handler (NEWCON:).
Amiga support and maintenance software performs service functions such as formatting media for a specific filesystem, diagnosing failures that occur on formatted media, data recovery after media failure, and installation of new software [citation needed] for the Amiga family of personal computers—as opposed to application software, which performs business, education, and recreation functions.