![]() ![]() ![]() Kickstart version 1.3 improved little on its predecessor, the most notable change being auto booting from hard drives. Workbench now spanned two floppy disks, and supported installing and booting from hard drive (assuming the Amiga was equipped with one), the name of the main disk was still named 'Workbench' (which is also the user interface portion of the operating system). A Kickstart disk was still necessary for Amiga 1000 models it was no longer necessary for Amiga 500 or 2000, but the users of these systems had to change the ROMs (which were socketed) to change the Kickstart version. Workbench version 1.2 was the first to support Kickstart stored in a. After the kickstart was loaded into a special section of memory called the writable control store (WCS), the image of the hand appeared again, this time inviting the user to insert the Workbench disk. An image of a simple illustration of a hand on a white screen, holding a blue Kickstart floppy, invited the user to perform this operation. The Amiga 1000 needed a Kickstart disk to be inserted into floppy drive to boot up. ![]() The entire Workbench operating system consisted of three floppy disks: Kickstart, Workbench and ABasic.
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