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  2. Kickstart (Amiga) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Amiga 3000 - Wikipedia

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    Kickstart V1.4 is actually a beta version of Kickstart which is loaded from disk. 68040 microprocessors require at least 2.0 ROMs. The A3000 has a number of Amiga-specific connectors including two DE-9 ports for joysticks, mice, and light pens, a standard 25-pin RS-232 serial port and a 25-pin Centronics parallel port.

  4. Amiga custom chips - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Amiga models and variants - Wikipedia

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    Initial machines had a 1.4 beta ROM that looked for a "super" Kickstart disk similar to the 1000. It could load Kickstart versions 1.3, 2.0, and 2.04 this way or from specially named partitions on the hard disk. Developers could also "kick" in higher versions of the OS, up to 3.1 Amiga 3000T: 1991–1992 68030, 68040: 1-2 MB Chip 1-4 MB Fast 2.04

  6. AmigaOS - Wikipedia

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    Kickstart is the bootstrap firmware, usually stored in ROM. Kickstart contains the code needed to boot standard Amiga hardware and many of the core components of AmigaOS. The function of Kickstart is comparable to the BIOS plus the main operating system kernel in IBM PC compatibles. However, Kickstart provides more functionality available at ...

  7. AmigaOS version history - Wikipedia

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    Many users circumvented the problem by installing so-called "kickstart switchers", a small circuit board which held both a Kickstart 1.3 and 2.0 chip, with which they could switch between Kickstart versions. 2.x shipped with the A500+ (2.04), A600 (2.05), A3000 and A3000T. Workbench 2.1 was the last in this series, and only released as a ...

  8. Order a CD-ROM to install AOL

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    Learn how to order an AOL CD-ROM.

  9. Amiga 3000UX - Wikipedia

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    The system is otherwise equivalent to the standard A3000, once a right-click initiates a boot to Kickstart (Amiga's kernel). Sun Microsystems and Unix International featured the Amiga 3000UX on their stands at the 1991 Uniforum event, ostensibly to promote Commodore's adoption of those exhibitors' technologies, specifically OPEN LOOK and SVR4. [1]