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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: motorollin on January 05, 2008, 12:41:20 PM
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Does anyone remember "The Very First" - the tutorial disk which came with Amiga 500s (well with mine at least) and taught you how to use the mouse, among other things. I would love to see it again, but I'm not sure on the copyright status. If anyone knows anything about it, please let me know. If it's a legal download, and there is one somewhere, a link would be great. If it's not legal and someone has a copy of the disk they don't want, please let me know!
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moto
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I have a copy of the disk.
(sorry but i want 2 keep it)
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I think i have it in Swedish, but I doubt you'd want it. :)
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No, that wouldn't be very helpful ;-) Anyone know if it's ok to distribute it? If so, an ADF from someone who already has it would be awesome.
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moto
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Hmm, mine "only" had printed manual dealing with that .... actually it's the 1st i hear about such disks :-o
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I would love to watch this again too!
It would take me right back to Christmas 1988, unboxing the Batman pack, and being disappointed that my father hadn't purchased the Spectrum 128 that I had recommended! ;)
In actual fact, I believe 'The Very First English Version' was indeed the very first disk to boot on my A500 - partly because the modulator included was faulty, requiring the family to wait until boxing day (or was it the day after?) before going into the city to organise a replacement from the store.
Great memories!
Cheers,
James
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Hey Moto, I have mine around here somewhere... I'll do my best to dig it out for you if someone doesn't do it first!
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Oops forgot to get back to this thread. Someone supplied me with a copy, so sorted. Quite a nostalgia trip :-)
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moto
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I think I have mine... I will look.
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I've never heard of it :-?
Could someone mail an adf? :-)
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It would take me right back to Christmas 1988, unboxing the Batman pack, and being disappointed that my father hadn't purchased the Spectrum 128 that I had recommended! ;)...partly because the modulator included was faulty, requiring the family to wait until boxing day (or was it the day after?) before going into the city to organise a replacement from the store.
This is how I felt when Mum came back with an A500 instead of the C64 I asked for. And the machine had to be returned
because of a faulty PSU too. Uncanny.
But my A500 did not come with this disk, all that info was in the manual. I would like to see this disk. I have seen similar on the Mac Classic.
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I'm pretty sure I got one spare lieing around.
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this was my first save game disk for my first game, Pirates! :) aah, good memories :) (later, it got the honour to be my first porn disk as well, but that's another story :)) I wish I never erased it though ...
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Is this the Amiga 500 tutuorial that came with the A500 or some Europe only tutorial? I would like to check it out.
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Here's a pic i uploaded
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=2330=7
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Don't think it came with my A500 either
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It came with my "Screen Gems" pack.
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I have two of those disks...
"den aller første"
sadly (to some) it is in Norwegian. :-D
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Hi,
I too have never heard of or seen this disk. I suspect it was a UK special. In the UK there seemed to be a never ending variation of different Amiga 'packs', which we never got in Oz...
I bought my own A500 a few years after my parents bought me a Commodore 64 'Family Pack' for Christmas - that was a great Chrisy! The C64 cost a princely $AU499 back in 1984 - which is equivalent to around $AU1200 in today's wonga!
Ah the memories!
I'd also love to get my mits on an ADF of this demo disk, if only to see how it compared to the 'Introduction' to basic (Part 1) demos on the C64!
Cheers,
Mike.
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Is this similar to the Amiga Tutor program that came with the A1000, on the Extras disk? That program was pretty cool, with the dancing mouse and all that.
I liked the Kaleidoscope program better, though.
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i got it with my A500 too, and i would love to see it again. can anyone post an adf of it?
@whabang
swedish works fine for me :-)
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I've got one in Dutch. Came with my A500 back in the eighties.
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When you boot the disk it is credited to several authors, but the copyright on the disk is attributed to Commodore. Since there seems to be a bit of interest in getting hold of this disk, I wonder who we would need to contact to get permission to upload it to Aminet, or BTTR?
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moto
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I've got an unusual "multi-national" pack with my A500. Bought it in Germany, with UK Keyboard and manuals and Dutch software!?
Beside Workbench and Basic/Extras disks there was also a disk called Stap voor Stap (Step by Step). I still have it somewhere...
I'm curious if it has the same content as The Very First.
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At the time I had an A500+ (that I still own) so "The Very First" disk didn't come. Anyway a friend of mine gave me his disk. It was the Italian version called "Primi Passi" such as "First Steps". It was a very nice graphical tutorial, it was good to shock the friends without Amiga :lol:
Now I have also the English version in ADF format. If the license allows us, I can send the file. Let me know!
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bloodline wrote:
It came with my "Screen Gems" pack.
Yeah, I had that pack too, definitely came with this WB tutorial disk (the WB stuff is the only part I can remember).
Regarding distribution of the disk image, do any armchair lawyers here know if copyright is affected by bankruptcy?
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Screenshot now in the gallery :-)
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moto
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I found a adf copy of The Very First here... https://archive.org/download/CommodoreAmigaApplicationsADF/Very%20First%2C%20The%20%281987%29%28Holz%2C%20Juan%20-%20Horasoft%20-%20A-Ha%29%5Btutorial%5D.zip
I have it on disk too, its good for uses that have never used Workbench before, there are people out there now that never used Amiga before.
Better late then never, ... :)
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