Kickstart (Amiga

Kickstart is the bootstrap firmware of the Amiga computers developed by Commodore International. Its purpose is to initialize the Amiga hardware and core

the Amiga 500 Plus. An A600HD model was sold with an internal 2.5" ATA hard disk drive of either 20 or 40 MB. Due to the inclusion of Kickstart 2.05

in ROM. Kickstart contains the code needed to boot standard Amiga hardware and many of the core components of AmigaOS. The function of Kickstart is comparable

Amiga models, supports both ROM-based Kickstarts and disk-based Kickstarts (the early "SuperKickstart" model), although not simultaneously. Kickstart

(excluding the Amiga 1000) come equipped with Kickstart on an embedded ROM-chip. There are various editions of Kickstart ROMs starting with Kickstart v1.1 for