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Version 3.1 of the Amiga operating system was the first version to be officially referred to as "Amiga OS" (with a space between "Amiga" and "OS") [3] [4] by Commodore. Version 4.0 of the Amiga operating system was the first version to be branded as a less generic "AmigaOS" (without the space). [3]
Amiga OS v3.1.4 additionally also came with newer releases of the Amiga Kickstart-ROMs (either as a digital download in Kickstart-images, or shipped with physical Kickstart-ROMs). In 2019, AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 was released as a software only update to Amiga 3.1.4 free-of-charge, mainly as a bug fix. [32]
For AmiKit to work, the original AmigaOS (version 3.x) and Kickstart ROM (version 3.1) are required. The following sources are supported: [citation needed] AmigaOS XL CD or ISO. AmigaOS 3.9 CD or ISO (also available in Amiga Forever from Cloanto, including the required Kickstart ROM). AmigaOS 3.5 CD or ISO.
AROS Research Operating System (AROS, pronounced "AR-OS") is a free and open-source multi media centric implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 application programming interface which is designed to be portable and flexible.
It featured either a 68020 or 68030 CPU, with a redesigned AGA chipset, and ran AmigaOS 3.1. Minimig is a hardware compatible open source re-implementation of an Amiga 500 using a field-programmable gate array .
Kickstart 3.0 ROM chips installed in an Amiga 1200 Kickstart 1.2 floppy disk. Kickstart is the bootstrap firmware of the Amiga computers developed by Commodore International.Its purpose is to initialize the Amiga hardware and core components of AmigaOS and then attempt to boot from a bootable volume, such as a floppy disk.
This lets the Amiga OS v3.x use and boot from large media (>4GB) natively, and support >2GB partition sizes. In July 2019, an additional file-based update to FFS was contained in the 3.1.4.1 update. [12] In May 2021, an updated Amiga OS 3.2 was released [13] and provided a matching ROM-based V47 FFS update which gained a few minor features and ...
Amiga software presents a complete graphical interface, following Amiga WYSIWYG "desktop paradigm" and native AmigaOS interface guidelines; that is to say, the software is mouse-driven and presents also pull-down "menus" and "dialogue windows". AmigaOS maintained a text-based shell allowing software to present a text-based GUI, or a "command line".