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.
Well, my loader program runs without any kickstart:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320571447274It boots directly since it writes directly to Amiga hardware registers so doesn't require any OS calls. Once loaded on A1000, you can then upload stuff to it through the floppy port.
It's 1.5K but Kickstart bootstrap always loads 256K.
Any program that directly writes to hardware registers and doesn't use OS calls should be able to run w/o kickstart and even use that memory for it's own program use.
