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Offline fishy_fizTopic starter

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What software works without kickstart ?
« on: August 09, 2010, 12:35:34 PM »
I guess the title says it all. I know some software was written that worked without kickstart (to conserve memory maybe for the early a1ks?(ie. kickstart needed to be loaded into a dedicated area if Im not mistaken)), but Ive always wondered what. The only one I know of (although Ive never tested it) is Dragons Lair.
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.
 

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Re: What software works without kickstart ?
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2011, 08:44:20 AM »
Yep, Im well aware of what kickstart is and so on. Ive been using amigas since '86 and programming them since around the same time. The thread was simply asking out of curiousity, as I'd seen references to a few bits of software that disregard it (ie. have thier own initialisation code that loads from disk rather than a full kickstart implementaion). Completely feasible, but rarely done.

Surprised to see this thread resurface though, it was a while ago that I asked this question :)
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.