You needed to do this every time you rebooted the system and then swap the disk for one with the actual software you wished to run, such as the Workbench OS disk or a game. The very first Amiga released in 1985, the Amiga A1000, came with Kickstart version 1.0, but this Amiga didn't have this on rom chips, instead booted the code into memory from a Kickstart floppy disk. These were tied in with each version of Workbench, with each version of Workbench requiring the same version of kickstart roms in the system for it to work. Without the Kickstart roms an Amiga is useless.Īs Amiga development progressed newer versions of the kickstart roms were released.
The Kickstart Roms are rom chips mounted on the Amiga motherboard and contain the core system code/files required for the system to load and run any Amiga software.
