The Amiga 1200 was the final "low-end" Amiga model produced by Commodore before their bankruptcy in 1994. Unlike modern PCs, the Amiga operating system was stored on a physical chip on the motherboard, known as the .
At the center of every Amiga 1200 experience is the . Unlike modern PCs that rely entirely on disk-based operating systems, the Amiga stored its core firmware—the kernel of its operating system—on physical ROM chips. For the A1200, this was typically Kickstart 3.0 or 3.1 . amiga 1200 roms pack