« on: October 26, 2002, 12:36:26 PM »
I used to have an A2000 (R.I.P) and an A1500 (sold)... great machines. I guess the easy test to see whether the password is on a ROM/Zorro card or is a hack in the startup sequence is to boot ANYTHING from the floppy - if the floppy boots with no password required then you can find some old workbench disks and reformat the hard drive and re-install workbench. If you still get the password then remove the offending Zorro card or replace the ROMs with a couple of new 3.1 ROMS and buy WB3.1 while you are at it. Infact, if it has a SCSI card for the Hard Drive then get a cheap CD ROM (replace that next-to-useless tape drive) and get OS3.9 too.
Of course, don't tell your friend this. Wait for him to give up and throw it in the garbage and then salvage the machine for yourself.
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A2000, A3000, 2 x A1200T, A1200, A4000Tower & Mediator, CD32, VIC-20, C64, C128, C128D, PET 8032, Minimig & ARM, C-One, FPGA Arcade... and AmigaOne X1000.
