KICKSTART2.0 V37.175 for the Amiga 1000
                            (C) by Bernd Harder

      This software may be freely copied, but not for commercial purposes !!!




You have an Amiga 1000 ?
You have a ram-expansion which is configured by 'kickpatch' or 'addmem' ?
You want to use Kickstart2.0 ?
You don't want to spend 512K for it ?


These tools make it possible !!!

It splits the Kickstart up into two halfs and takes the first one whereever
you want in your fastram, the other in the $fc0000 WOM !!!


Advantages to other tools like zkick are:

- You save 256K of memory.
- The Kickstart is patched to find your fastram, so you save chipram, which
  will be lost for system-structures, if you use 'addmem'.
- No chance for any gurus to land in Kick1.3 because of independence of
  any Kick1.3-stuff.
  

What is to do ?

First you have to create an adapted Kickstart2.0. You need an original
500/2000 kickfile37.175 from Commodore.
Take the programm kick2, which needs several parameters:

  kick2 from to kick-hex fastbegin-hex fastend-hex
  
- from:          filename of original kickfile37.175
- to:            destination filename for the adapted kickfile
- kick-hex:      address for the first half of Kickstart2.0 in your fastram
- fastbegin-hex: address of the beginning of the rest of your fastram
- fastend-hex:   address of the end of the rest of your fastram

Example:
If you have an expansion from 200000 to 400000 you could choose the following
configuration:

  kick2 source destination 200000 240000 400000

Don't worry, this tool takes a whole while to proceed.


How to activate it ?

Take the program kickload, which needs the following parameters:

  kickload from hex-kick [hex-buffer]

- from:       filename of your adapted kickfile
  hex-kick:   address of the beginning of the first half of your Kickstart2.0
  hex-buffer: address for buffering the second half.
              Default ist hex-kick+$40000.

For the configuration above, you only have to insert the following commands
in the beginning of your startup-sequence:

  version > nil: graphics.library 37
  if warn
   kickload kickfile 200000
  endif

Now you have to boot with a normal Kickstart1.3/1.2, but don't you use a
version which is patched to find your fastram, the system may not know the
memory which is used by kickload !!!

So you have nothing to do anymore to enjoy Kickstart2.0 !!!


By the way, if some program writes some stuff in your unprotected part of
the Kickstart, a checksum-error is indicated during reset by a red screen.
Then you have to reboot with the Kickstart1.3/1.2. Don't use the power-switch,
pressing control-amiga-amiga is sufficient !


Kickreset is a little tool, which allows you to boot with another Kickstart-
disk.


           Thanks to Daniel Zenchelsky for his relocation-table !!!