It was thus said that the Great Poesie once stated: The Kickstart disks are essencially the first stage boot disks and load the basic OS into memory. Later Amigas had most of this OS stored in ROMs and the need for Kickstart disks went away. The Workbench disk is, for lack of a better term, the desktop program (something like the Finder under MacOS, or Explorer under Windows 9x). You would stick in the Kickstart disk, then at the appropriate time, stick in the Workbench disk of the same version. The Extras disk are some simple utilities and programs, which include the Basic interpreter, which isn't worth the space used to store it. It's the only piece of software from Microsoft for the Amiga (I believe) and is fairly buggy and slow. The TV/Text sounds like a program used to generate video text, like movie titles and captions. The Amiga was used quite a bit in the video industry. -spc (Hope this helps some)