KickWork

[yorgle]

Just wondering if anyone else out there has ever used the "KickWork" disk?

We picked it up from "Amigo" in Farmingdale (I think) NY (Long Island) back around 1987-1988 or so.  

It is a boot floppy for the Amiga 1000 that is modified to also have a Workbench disk image on the same disk.  That is, 256k is used for the Kickstart image, then around 600k for workbench disk space.  It let you just have one floppy that you never had to remove from DF0.

I believe we had it for 1.1 and then got the 1.2 version later...

[yorgle]

hardlink wrote:

I am thinking about putting ethernet software on a KickWork and running my A1000 (with an ethernet board on an expansion) as a 'diskless' network workstation

Neat!

I was never able to afford an ethernet board for my A1000, sadly.  The most i've tried with it recently was to get a 4 gig hard disk working with it, but after 25 hours of formatting, i gave up on it (Data Flyer 1000)

[yorgle]

The disk just shows up as a standard disk when it was booted by itself.  If you boot with a different kickstart, the disk is a non-dos, but not NDOS disk.  I want to say that it appears as though it is a KICK disk, but I can't remember.  I'll dig up the ADF and check it out.

What I believe it did was that it patched the disk handler in the Kick image, and added hooks for disks with a certain signature to start at a different cylinder on the disk.

just a guess though. i haven't compared kick roms or anything yet.

[yorgle]

Damn!  nice work!

I'd love to try that out on my own Ami.  Can I try out that tool? (pm me)  I realize that you can't just hand over the kickwork disk, since it's copyrighted and such.

Hmm... That with a combination of Skick/2.0 rom on the disk itself would be a single floppy solution to get you from a barebones A1000 up to 2.04.

Yeah... I like 2.04 more than 3.0... i'm crazy.  then again, I prefer the look of 1.3 or 1.4 on my Ami.

[yorgle]

Yeah. I'd love to see the source and a description of the theory; how it works and such.

Nifty!

[yorgle]

Thank you for making it, Rudolph.  We used it extensively on our A1000... it made it a lot more convenient to use... I'd be willing to bet that it let the eject mechanism in our DF0 live a few extra years.

My dad and I drove up to Amigo a few times to get various software, hardware and just look at the computers.  

Unfortunately, I had moved away from Long Island when I went to college before 1.3 came out, and then I had a hard drive, so I never picked up KickWork 1.3 or newer.

I seem to remember getting KickWork 1.1 as well, but that could be my poor memory.

And yeah, cheers for the excellent analysis and such, Piru!