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Kikstart 2 is a motorcycle trials racing videogame released for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. It enjoyed more success than its predecessor, Kikstart . The game allowed 2-player simultaneous (via a split-screen facility) or 1-player, vs-computer play.
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.
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.
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.
Workbench 2.1 was the last in this series, and only released as a software update. It included useful features such as CrossDOS, to support working with floppy disks formatted for PCs. Since 2.1 was a software-only release, there was no Kickstart 2.1 ROM. 2.x also introduced PCMCIA card support, for the slot on the A600. Workbench 2.1 ...
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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]