Stupid Amiga Tricks

From: Deano Calver <deano_at_rattie.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu Jun 10 15:54:45 2004

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

>You know, everytime I have to setup a computer other than an Apple, I'm
>reminded of just how lame every other computer is.
>
>So I pull an Amiga 1000 off the shelf and proceed to set it up since I'm
>making no progress with the 500 and time is being lost. It still doesn't
>work with any of the video cables I have, but I was able to get a cable
>splitter to connect the composite output to the inputs on the back of the
>display. Now I have color. But, now I have no boot disk. The disk that
>booted on the 500 won't boot on the 1000. I have a Workbench v1.2 disk
>that works on the 500 and the 2000, but not the 1000. What a joke.
>
>You know, there's probably a really good reason why Commodore and Atari
>are gone but Apple is still around.
>
>
>
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.

Deano
Received on Thu Jun 10 2004 - 15:54:45 BST