Talk:Kickstart (Amiga)

BIOS
I'm not sure I buy that Kickstart is like a BIOS - wasn't there an actual BIOS-like thing in ROM that would be needed to boot off of the Kickstart floppies on the Amiga 1000? Luminifer (talk) 16:47, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes. Kickstart was the whole operating system, minus the GUI (windows/icons) and many times I worked directly from the Kickstart without loading anything else.   Theaveng (talk) 12:23, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

There is a newer AmigaOS 4 Kickstart as file, but yet Kickstart. And it includes more core components, like you have mentioned above. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS_4#Kickstart http://www.gregdonner.org/workbench/images/wb_40_boot1.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rastavox (talk • contribs) 21:20, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Kickstart copyright
We should write two rows about the current state of copyright.--188.153.52.192 (talk) 12:15, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Version table thoughts and improvements
I find some aspects of the version table in need of improvement:


 * 1) There is no column for developer. I.e. "Commodore" up to and including Kickstart 3.1 or Hyperion Entertainment for 3.1.4.
 * 2) Kickstarts of AmigaOS 4 are not included. Is there any thought behind this?
 * 3) Unreleased Kickstart versions <1.0, 1.4, 3.2 are included despite having the "Launch date" column filled in as usual. There should perhaps be a column indicated final state of release, as in Launched / Beta / Development?
 * 4) There is no column for minimum platform/CPU support. Especially if AmigaOS 4 is to be included this would help separating those.

Thoughts?

&mdash; Northgrove 15:49, 30 May 2021 (UTC)