Any AMIGA users?

From: Gary Hildebrand <ghldbrd_at_ccp.com>
Date: Mon Dec 31 13:30:07 2001

Christopher Smith wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com [mailto:SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com]
>
> > Decided to pull out my amiga 500 and a PHOENIX hard drive
> > that fits it.
> > plugged it all in and the hard drive spins up, but the amiga
> > still prompts
> > for a system floppy. can a PC download and create an amiga
> > system disk? i
>
> Short answer: No. ;)
>
> Long answer:
>
> The amiga floppy format is 880k. The standard peesee drive/controller setup won't do it. You may be in luck if you have a catweasel controller or a compati-card.
>
> Otherwise, you can probably write them with a macintosh. You can also possibly do it with some unix machines, or if you have a VAX with 3.5" floppy, or alpha... I was going to try with my sparc IPC, myself.
>
> On another note, I have a set of disks that will boot my amiga 1000. Kickstart and OS 1.2 (I think?). I don't know whether OS 1.2 will work on your 500, nor have I any idea whether the OS you get absolutely must be matched to the kickstart version (in ROM on the 500...) I'd be willing to give it a try anyway, though, if you can't find something that's more of a "sure bet."
>
> > want to see what this computer is capable of.
>
> The only fully working '500 I've seen was very impressive in context.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris

You can use Workbench disks that are backwards from the kickstart ROM
version. WB 1.2 differs from 1.3 only in autobooting code for a hard
drive. WB 2.x and higher have a new graphic interface, with a nice grey
background instead of the original navy blue and orange theme.

Gary Hildebrand
Received on Mon Dec 31 2001 - 13:30:07 GMT