What software works without kickstart ?

[ChaosLord]

I had an A1000 and I never had any demos like that.

[Tuxon86]

And it is also possible to have both the kickstart and other stuff on the first floppy (search for kickbench disk) so it may appears like there isn't any kickstart needed but it is still there.

[smerf]

@fishy_fiz,

Kick start is a program which speaks to the bare minimum hardware in order to load your program, like workbench or games. All it does is give instructions to your hardware so it knows what to do.

smerf

[smerf]

@ fishy_fiz,

Actually none.

No software works without kickstart, the older Amiga's had kickstart on disk, but the newer ones have them embedded in ROM which when the computer is turned on issues instructions to the bare minimum hardware in order to start. It is sort of like a BIOS in a PC computer.

smerf

[fishy_fiz]

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

[Ratte]

And it is also possible to have both the kickstart and other stuff on the first floppy (search for kickbench disk) so it may appears like there isn't any kickstart needed but it is still there.

Kickwork(3.1) & Twinkick (booting two kickstarts at one time)