Short: Kickstart V37.175 on Amiga 1000 w/ non-autoconfig FastMem Author: ferber@rpksun2.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de Uploader: ferber rpksun2 mach uni-karlsruhe de Type: util Architecture: m68k-amigaos REQUIREMENTS o Amiga 1000 w/ RAM expansion which needs to be configured by "KickPatch" or "AddMem" and o The Commodore (or ZKick) A500/2000 kickfile37.175 DESCRIPTION yKick allows the usage of Kickstart 2.0 for A1000 users who do not have an auto configurating memory board and therefor can not use Daniel Zenchelsky's ZKick. yKick takes advantage of the Amiga 1000 WOM which offers 256K of Kickstart memory at 0xFC0000. This is possible because the Kickstart file of V37.175 can easily be split. yKick splits the zKick Kickstart file V37.175 into two parts of 256K each and places one of them into your WOM and the other one into any location in your fast memory you like. yKick relocates and patches the Kickstart file for A1000 usage on every startup. You don't need to create an adapted Kick20 file as you do when using versions of Bernd Harder's "Kickload" and "Kick2". Nevertheless, yKick is very fast. If you prefer the usage of Bernd Harder's "Kickload" for any reason yKick can be used to replace his hyper-slow "Kick2" tool with the yKick option '-o'. NOTE yKick replaces your 256K Kickstart (1.3 or less) but it needs the original 256K Kickstart reset code for a very short time when coming up. This reset code MUST NOT be patched! YOU CAN NOT use a Kickstart disk which is patched by "KickPatch" (supplied with some memory boards) or a similar application. You can however use AddMem before running yKick but you don't need AddMem when running Kickstart 2.0 with yKick. yKick will automatically add your fast memory to the system free pool during a reset. An improved version of AddMem is supplied with yKick. It does not cause a crash if you try to add memory twice. The here supplied version of AddMem can also be used to link additional fast memory AFTER yKick'ing to Kick 2.0.