Stupid Amiga Tricks

From: Paul Braun <nerdware_at_ctgonline.org>
Date: Thu Jun 10 15:59:03 2004

On 10 Jun 2004 at 13:30, 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.
>
Now, now -- the Amiga rocked. It had technology that Apple couldn't touch at the time, like
multiple windows, each with their own resolution and bit depth, all onscreen at the same
time.


> 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.
>
The 500 and 2000 had Kickstart in ROM (Kickstart is the actual hardward bootstrap code
that loads before Workbench loads.) The 1000 didn't have Kickstart ROM's -- there should
be a separate Kickstart disk that boots first.
 
> You know, there's probably a really good reason why Commodore and Atari
> are gone but Apple is still around.

Two words: Jack Tramiel.

Well, Tramiel and incredibly incompetent marketing.

By the way, did you get the package?


Paul Braun
Cygnus Productions
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