Once written, the WCS was write-protected and the contents were not lost until power-down (without special utilities to clear the WCS at run-time). Unlike any other Amiga (with moderate similarities to the original Amiga 3000), this machine (unless modified with aftermarket enhancements) required that Kickstart be loaded from floppy disk into a 256KB RAM space called the WCS (or Write-Control-Store) area. Following is a list of the machines this site is concerned with:Ī1000: The original Amiga. However, in many cases (particularly in earlier releases), ROM code was interchangable between ‘like’ machines, such as the Amiga 5 (and in some cases the 1000). This column indicates the first machine intended to use each Kickstart ROM.
Workbench screen of AmigaOS 3.1.4 with new GlowIcons Workbench screen of. This list shows you which Kickstart 3.1 roms will work with each model. Of the newer Workbench 3.1 OS and the extra features 3.1 allows. Jump to Upgrading to Kickstart 3.1 ROMs - Most Amiga models can be upgraded to the latest.