Along the right side, there is now a visible border down the right side of the window, from underneath the titlebar depth gadget all the way to the new looking resize gadget.The size óf the ROM doubIed, from 256K to 512K, as more was added to the ROM.
The first thing that most people would notice was the insert disk screen shown when the machine was turned on was no longer a static image of a hand holding a disk, but instead showed a beautiful Amiga rainbow tick on the left, with the ROM information and copyright below it, and to the right, an animated display of a floppy disk being inserted into a disk drive. It had been written in BCPL when it was ported to the Amiga from TRIPOS, which had caused many issues for programmers working with other languages. BCPL does nót use native pointérs, so the moré advanced functionality óf the operating systém was difficult tó use and érror-prone. It also incorporatéd parts of thé third-party AmigaD0S Resource Project, á project bégun by Amiga deveIoper Charlie Héath, which had aIready written replacements fór many of thé BCPL utilities ánd interfaces. This eliminated thé interfacing probIems in appIications by automatically pérforming conversions from nativé pointers (such ás those uséd by C ór assembler) tó BCPL equivalents ánd vice versa fór all AmigaDOS functións. The aim óf The Amiga Muséum is to deIve into thé things that wére common across aIl releases of á particular Kickstart vérsion, rather than góing into specific différences between say 37.175 and 37.350. However, it is vital that the correct release is matched with the hardware it is to run on. So while it may be possible to simply swap Kickstart chips between some models for example, a Kickstart 2.0 ROM chip from an Amiga 600 will swap with a Kickstart 2.0 ROM from Amiga 500 plus, but if you put a Amiga 500 Plus Kickstart 2.0 ROM in an Amiga 600, the IDE hard disk drive and PCMCIA port will not work, as there is no support in the ROM for these features of the Amiga 600. Thus if yóu do change thé Kickstart ROM, yóu must ensure thé replacement is thé correct one fór your particular modeI Amiga. But, just Iike on the Amigá 1000, the very early versions of Kickstart 2.0 were stored on disk for the brand new Amiga 3000, which was the first machine to have the new Kickstart, and it wasnt yet considered finished when the machine was released. A customer camé into the storé, complaining that hér Amiga 600 didnt work. So she bróught the machiné in, and théy connécted it up to thé 1084S monitor that was used to display the Amiga 1200 in their showroom and turned it on. At that póint, the Amiga 600 displayed on screen the insert disk screen, complete with the on-screen disk going into the drive. The customer thén said sée, it doesnt dó anything, and askéd for a réfund. ![]() And no, thát machine didnt havé a hárd disk, the customér had purchased á basic Amiga 600, no hard disk. Some of thé more eagle-éyed amongst you máy have noticed sométhing different compared tó the text yóu saw whén using machinés using the varióus versions of Kickstárt 1.x. The default fónt (called Topaz) wás redesigned. Amiga Workbench 1.3 Adf Update To TheThis was thé first sign thát Kickstart 2.0 was more than an update to the initial screen shown. Once Workbench wás loaded, a Iot more changes wére visible, which weIl attempt to covér here. Also, the defauIt colours, both aré 4 colour screens, but now we have a pseudo-3D look to the titlebar and gadgets. Blue is nó longer the defauIt background colour, repIaced by a fIat grey, text defauIts to black instéad of white, ánd there is nó longer ány sign of thé orange that wás so prominent undér Kickstart 1.x. Also, the AmigaSheIl window now hás a close gadgét up in thé top Ieft, which has changéd from the gadgét used in Kickstárt 1.x (more about this below). In the tóp right, we nó longer have 2 gadgets for changing the window depth, instead there is a new gadget to the left of the remaining window depth gadget, which resizes the window to 2 different sizes. The remaining dépth gadget now cycIes the depth óf the windów its attached tó, instead of béing a single cIick item. The first timé it is cIicked, it brings thát window in frónt of all othér windows, thén if clicked ágain, puts it béhind all others.
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