hello from west sussex

[noely02]

hi to all out there, new member from worthing in west sussex

i've joined because i recently rescued a couple of a500's from a local university.
i am a total noob with amigas so expect to see a few HELP!!! postings soon

NoeL

[bloodline]

Have you fired them up yet?

[noely02]

yeah, got them going, but they have different start up screens, this was going to be my 1st HELP!!! post later
1 has an animated amiga workbench v1.2 screen, other has a screen with 2.0 roms (37.175)

i have downloaded a manual which i'm going to read later, but i'm still a bit in the dark............

[dlr]

Brighton/Sussex uni? What on earth were they doing with 500's laying around?

I'm over Hastings way. Back er 18 years ago or something when doing Computing A Level at Bexhill college a few of us refused to use the PC's and did our work on our 1200's in Amos/Blitz basic then when it needed reviewing I would bring mine in and go find a TV somewhere in the college to demonstrate our work.

.....then spend a while playing Super Stardust

[bloodline]

yeah, got them going, but they have different start up screens, this was going to be my 1st HELP!!! post later
1 has an animated amiga workbench v1.2 screen, other has a screen with 2.0 roms (37.175)

i have downloaded a manual which i'm going to read later, but i'm still a bit in the dark............

Sounds like one is actually an A500+, the one with 2.xx ROMs and an animated disk jumping into a drive screen.

The other is a standard A500 with the white startup screen and a hand holding an Workbench disk... Which brings me on to my next question... Did you get any workbench disks? Or other software? The machines are not going to do much without software

[noely02]

from what i understand they were hooked upto analysers in a lab, purchased at the same time as the analysiers, the labs grant had run out and the lab was cleared ready for the next group to come in, anything not wanted was dumped
i've had 6 or so bbc b's, and a couple of acorn archimedes over the years, kept the best beeb to play with and the rest went on that well known online auction site.....

anyway, got no software with them, got power supplies, mice,1 external floppy drive and a gvp impact series 2 hard drive.

was looking at getting a cheap game off fleabay to try, and ask on the forum if anyone has a workbench disk i can borrow/buy/get copy off

[RobertB]

Greetings!  My friend, the AmigaKing, lives in Haywards Heath, and every time I go over to the U.K., I visit there.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[TurbineX]

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[trekiej]

Welcome.