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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
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.
Amiga OS v3.1.4 additionally also came with newer releases of the Amiga Kickstart-ROMs (either as a digital download in Kickstart-images, or shipped with physical Kickstart-ROMs). In 2019, AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 was released as a software only update to Amiga 3.1.4 free-of-charge, mainly as a bug fix. [32]
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).
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 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]
This lets the Amiga OS v3.x use and boot from large media (>4GB) natively, and support >2GB partition sizes. In July 2019, an additional file-based update to FFS was contained in the 3.1.4.1 update. [12] In May 2021, an updated Amiga OS 3.2 was released [13] and provided a matching ROM-based V47 FFS update which gained a few minor features and ...