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Kickstart ROM v2.05
There are no visual differences between Kickstart 2.04 and 2.05. With the first revision (37.299) it wasn't possible to boot from the PCMCIA device or the internal ATA controller. Instead, drivers for these had to be loaded from floppy disk. The later revisions (37.300 and 37.350), which were used mainly in A600HD, had these drives built into the ROM, and as such made it possible to boot directly from PCMCIA and ATA.
Revision 37.300 had bugs which prevented it from using hard disks larger than 40 Mb. These bugs were fixed in revision 37.350, which supported hard disks up to 4 Gb.
Later on Amiga 600 owners had the possibility to upgrade to Workbench 2.1. This was a software (floppy disk) update only and no Kickstart 2.1 ROM ever existed.
Revision 37.299 (Commodore, 1991) is used by:
- A600
Revision 37.300 and 37.350 (Commodore, 1991) is used by:
- A600HD
Legal ways to get Kickstart ROM files
- Buy Cloanto's Amiga Forever package which comes with licensed ROMs
- Extract the Kickstart ROM from your real Amiga using a tool like TransROM, GrabKick or any other Kickstart ROM grabber!
The following Kickstart v2.0.5 images are available in TOSEC:
- Kickstart v2.05 rev 37.210 (1991)(Commodore)(pre-release)[for use with KickIt]
- Kickstart v2.05 rev 37.210 (1991)(Commodore)(pre-release)[for use with ReKick]
- Kickstart v2.05 rev 37.210 Plus (1991)(Commodore)(pre-release)[for use with KickIt]
- Kickstart v2.05 rev 37.210 Plus (1991)(Commodore)(pre-release)[for use with ReKick]
- Kickstart v2.05 rev 37.299 (1991)(Commodore)(A600)[!]
- Kickstart v2.05 rev 37.300 (1991)(Commodore)(A600HD)
- Kickstart v2.05 rev 37.350 (1992)(Commodore)(A600HD)[!]
Amiga ROM copyright
To legally use the Amiga v2.05 ROM image with emulators, you must own the specific Amiga model. Lemon Amiga only provides information about different Amiga kickstart versions, but we do not not offer them for download. Neither do we allow requests of kickstart downloads in our forum!