It was ahead of its time. Don’t forget PC’s of the time period were no where near to doing what Commodore were releasing hardware wise. The Amiga had a custom chipset which produced Sound and Graphics. It can multi-task. Okay it wasn’t PC compatible so therefore you couldn’t run things like WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 etc… But things like games and the Demo Scene started because of this system.

a big thing for me was commodore introduced true multitasking in 1985 on the amiga, while microsoft and apple were stumped on that till 1990.
it was the first personal computer that i know of that could produce a broadcast quality NTSC video.

This post is more of a review than a question.
While I'm still on the lookout for an affordable and serviceable Amiga 1000, I have been using Amiga Forever to play the included games, and demos and do some BASIC programming.

Wanting to try to get back to what I had back in the 80's I found a great copy of Deluxe Paint II on Ebay.  The original box, manual, other sheets and the 2 floppies -- Key disk and Art disk.

I bought that understanding such old floppies might not work at all, but at least I'd have it as an artifact.

I bought a floppy drive with integrated GreaseWeezle board...(on ebay) The Amiga forever documentation indicates I should be able to use that as a "real" drive in the emulator to read Amiga floppies on the fly.   But not wanting to add any wear and tear to the two disks, what I did do was archive the two to .adf image files.   I noted that the key disk read fine, and the Art disk, had two spots where it did a retry...   I think that's amazing condition for such old floppies.

From there it was a simple matter to mount the images in the Amiga settings, and there I was, back in the 80's running  Deluxe Paint!

After going through the process once, I realized that i should be able to use the same drive to archive floppies from other personal computer systems and other types of floppy drives.    I see a lot of 5 inch floppies available on Ebay, and so my mind is turning to putting together a drive and Weezle board myself.

IIRC you can add the command "CHDir myfolder" somewhere so every following file access is relative to that.

Somebody just shot me a link on Discord. Downloading now.

now later with new Caffeine. Wifi works fine. From here I may copy wifipi.device and use on my 3.2 pistorm setup and try to get it working there.


Thanks for all the help and input.