SKick is the replacement for Kickit, ZKick and LKick kickers, intended for use on A500 or A2000 machines with OS2.0 in ROM (for instance A500+). Its task is to soft-kick any other version of kickstart into RAM. 'Any other' means also the 1.3 kickstart, which was unavailable to kick with any other kicker. KickIt and ZKick both require 1.3 ROM for operation and function of LKick from 2.0 isn't very stable. SKick is fully assembly-written program, with many facilities added. The main advantages of SKick are: - ability to relocate any kickstart image, when the relocation table is supplied into any kind of RAM (CHIP, FAST, EXP etc.) - standard operation (like Kickit etc.), when table is not available - patch function (patches kickstart image prior its start, which may correct known bugs etc.), using supplied patch file - powerful command line and Workbench interface - Graphic User Interface (GUI) - all operations during kicking are made so 'purely' as possible, all structures are exactly in the same state as if kicked from ROM - small code size (even if most powerful, SKick is the shortest from all the kickers) - relocation tables for new kickstart versions will be automatically available for registered users - loaded kickstart survives any 'soft crash' (without corrupting execbase or kickstart itself) and user reset - allows use of CoolCapture, romtags and memtags with user programs without any limitation