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Amiga KICK ROMS
« on: July 09, 2006, 09:52:15 PM »

Here is a run down on kick roms

Kickstart is the name given to the bootstrap ROM. On the first Amiga model, the A1000, this was loaded from disk, although eventually the Kickstart was embedded in a ROM chip inside the computer. The Amiga 1000 could be modified to take these chips, and subsequent Amiga models all used ROM chips.

Kickstart contained the code needed to boot the standard Amiga hardware and any Autoconfig expansion hardware. The Kickstart also contained many stock parts of the Amiga's operating system, such as Exec, Intuition and the core of AmigaDOS. This meant that a powered-on Amiga already had a lot of the essential parts of the operating system available. Later versions of the Kickstart contained drivers for IDE and SCSI controllers, PCMCIA ports and various other hardware that came built into Amigas. It can be compared to the BIOS in IBM PCs, however it has far more functionality available at boot time - the full windowing environment, for example.

With third party software, it is possible to have a different Kickstart loaded in RAM and to use it instead of the ROM one - for example Kickstart 1.3 may be loaded in order to run old games incompatible with Kickstart 2.0 and higher. These programs are called softkickers. There are also hardware Kickstart switchers which allow you to have more than one set of Kickstart chips inside the computer, which are selectable either by a switch or a keyboard shortcut when you first turn the machine on.

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Re: Amiga KICK ROMS
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2006, 09:56:38 PM »

of course.... if you *are* looking for kickstart roms.... because you cant be bothered to get them from your real amiga... google is your friend!
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