Stupid Amiga Tricks

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Jun 10 16:07:52 2004

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Deano Calver wrote:

> Your using an Amiga 1000. Its doesn't have its boot software (called
> Kickstart) in ROM like every Amiga, so you need a Kickstart disk. I
> originally typed boot firmware but then realised that made no sense in
> this case :-)
>
> Amiga 1000 also has a different chipset that misses a few graphics modes.

So Commodore thought they could be successful at defying convention by
giving the stripped down model a higher model number?

They certainly were insane, weren't they?

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