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- KICKSTART V1.2.1 RELEASE DOCUMENTATION
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- VERSION:
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- Kickstart version number is bumped to 34.4 .
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- 34.4
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- subsystem start end bytes revision
- name (hex) (hex) (dec) number
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- autovects 000000 D 14
- exec FC0000 FC3507 13576 2
- audio FC3508 FC4573 4204 1
- cia FC4574 FC47F7 644 1
- disk FC47F8 FC4B5F 872 1
- expansion FC4B60 FC53E3 2180 1
- graphics FC53E4 FD3D63 59776 1
- intuition FD3D64 FE090F 52140 3
- layers FE0910 FE3DA3 13460 1
- mathffp FE3DA4 FE42CB 1320 1
- misc FE42CC FE43DB 272 1
- potgo FE43DC FE4523 328 1
- ramlib FE4524 FE4B43 1568 1
- rawinput FE4B44 FE83DF 14492 1
- strap FE83E0 FE8D7B 2460 3
- timer FE8D7C FE956F 2036 1
- trackdisk FE9570 FEB073 6916 1
- romboot FEB074 FEB473 1024 1
- wb FEB474 FF3DE3 35184 1
- dos FF3F38 FFFFE7 49328 2
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- total 261794
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- Maximum contiguous space available (HEX) 154
- Maximum contiguous space available (DEC) 340
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- RESIDENT MODULES:
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- Address Pri Type Ver Name
- $fc00b6 120 9 34 exec 34.2 (28 Oct 1987)
- $fc4b64 110 9 34 expansion 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fe43dc 100 8 34 potgo 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fe4b44 100 8 34 keymap ri 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fc4574 80 8 34 cia 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fc47fc 70 8 34 disk 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fe42d0 70 8 34 misc 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fe4528 70 9 34 ramlib 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fc53e4 65 9 34 graphics 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fe4b8e 60 3 34 keyboard ri 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fe4bda 60 3 34 gameport ri 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fe8d80 50 3 34 timer 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fc3508 40 3 34 audio 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fe4c26 40 3 34 input ri 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fe09a4 31 9 34 layers 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fe4c6c 20 3 34 console ri 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fe9578 20 3 34 trackdisk 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fd3d8c 10 9 34 intuition 34.3 (16 Nov 1987)
- $fc3276 5 0 34 alert.hook
- $fe3da4 0 9 34 mathffp 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $feb490 0 1 34 wb 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $ff3f82 0 9 34 dos 34.2 (13 Oct 1987)
- $feb074 -40 9 34 romboot 34.1 (18 Aug 1987)
- $fe83e0 -60 0 34 strap 34.3 (16 Nov 1987)
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- FEATURES:
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- V1.2.1 is an incremental kickstart release. It is designed to
- maintain V1.2 compatiblity throughout, while adding two important
- features to the operating system. These features are 1) autoboot
- from ROM-based expansion devices and 2) a larger preferences structure
- for future expansion.
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- Automatic boot from any ROM-equipped expansion board is accomplished
- at cold-start time, before the DOS exists. This facility makes it
- possible, for example to automatically boot (with the right hardware)
- from a hard disk without any disk being in the drive whatsoever. In
- addition, it will become possible to automatically boot from any device
- which supports the ROM protocol (e.g. boot from nfs: over ethernet, etc).
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- Autoboot is implemented with the addition of the "romboot.library"
- to the rom resident list, as well as with conservative changes to
- the expansion.libray, the dos.library, and the strap.library. These
- changes have been carefully considered to be compatible in all regards
- with V1.2 (release 33.180) so that developers should not have to recompile
- their code for software compatibility.
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- Romboot.library functions are private at this time and are not needed
- by those developing autoboot expansion devices or drivers for such devices.
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- Extended preferences is a simple byte field extension to the
- Preferences structure to allow future software extensions to be easily
- added to the current system. This was necessary because the original
- Preferences structure was a fixed format with no additional bytes
- available. Again, software developers should not have to recompile
- their code for software compatibility with V1.2 (release 33.180).
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