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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 was an Amiga compatible similar to the A1200, but on a motherboard which could fit into a standard 5 1/4" drive bay. 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 .
Aminet is the world's largest archive of Amiga-related software and files. Aminet was originally hosted by several universities' FTP sites, and is now available on CD-ROM and on the web. According to Aminet, as of 3 September 2022, it has 83930 packages online.
The Amiga 500, also known as the A500, was the first popular version of the Amiga home computer, "redefining the home computer market and making so-called luxury features such as multitasking and colour a standard long before Microsoft or Apple sold these to the masses."
Also introduced for the Amiga were two products, A-Max (both internal and external models) and the Emplant expansion card. Both allowed the Amiga to emulate an Apple Macintosh and run the classic Mac OS. It required an Apple Macintosh ROM image, or actual ROMs in the case of A-Max, which needed to be obtained from a real Macintosh.
This allows Amiga users to use their existing software, and in some cases hardware, on modern computers. Attempts have also been made to create a hardware Amiga emulator on FPGA chips . [1] One of the most challenging aspects of emulating the Amiga architecture is the custom chipset which relies on critical cycle-exact emulation. As a result ...
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]