KickWork

[rloew]

I see someone finally figured out the patches I made to create Kickwork 1.x for the Amiga 1000. I think analyzing KickWork 2.0.4 and KickWork 3.0 would be much more of a challenge. Since Amigo Business Computers is no longer in the Amiga business, I sell KickWork and other Amiga products on my own now.

Rudolph R. Loew

rloew@hotmail.com

[rloew]

Kickwork 2.0.4 and 3.0 are similar to Kickwork 1.x but install Kickstart 2.0.4 or 3.0 on an Amiga 1000. Due to the larger Kickstart image, half is stored in the normal protected RAM and half is stored in user RAM. There are three version of each, one for each of the three memory configurations supported.

Amigo Business Computers never promoted KickWork 2.0.4 or 3.0.

The price is $30 for an E-Mailed Disk Image. Retail packaging is not available for these or KickWork 1.x.

I have developed hundreds of Programs for the Amiga. Most are diagnostic or development tools. A few of the more interesting ones are listed below. Contact me if you are interested in a specific type of program.

XFILE: Advanced file management program with numerous List/Copy/Move/Delete/Execute options.

MERGEUNIQ: Merges files and removes duplicate lines/blocks.

TRACKDISK41: SCSI Disk drive for >4GB Drives without requiring "New Style Driver" support.

Networking File System with Auto Detect Option available in Proprietary Ethernet (AMIGO Ethernet), TCP/IP over Ethernet, Serial Port, Parallel Port, Modem, ARCNET, or Joystick Port (Beta). Auto Detect finds accessible drives over entire network including heterogenous ones.

Large Hard Drive Patches for X-SURF IDE/Ethernet Card.

[rloew]

I can answer the question Piru was asked. Each version of KickWork was designed to work with one version of Kickstart. Only two versions were sold by Amigo Business Conputers, KickWork 1.2 and KickWork 1.3.

As far as business use is concerned, KickWork was probably used mostly by individuals. A number of businesses purchased Amigo Ethernet to network their Amigas. I created some customized versions to work with the Scala authoring package to network their creation and presentation stations. I do not know how many Amiga based systems are still out there. I do know that Scala has migrated to the PC platform and is still selling software.

[rloew]

I believe that PD verision was called "KickBench".

Seeing the poor design of KickBench prompted me to write KickWork.

KickBench clearly was not reliable for unattended operation since a power failure between the writes would disable the disk.