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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Hal2710e on August 25, 2003, 03:44:50 PM

Title: Amiga 1200 Bios ??
Post by: Hal2710e on August 25, 2003, 03:44:50 PM

Hello Again,

I am runnig my A1200 with portable TV.
I have bought a 1084s monitor on ebay and await its delivery.

I can vaguely remember that there is a sort of bios style screen accessed at boot up by hold down some keys but cant remember which !!
Does anyone know what I'm on about or have I had toooo many beers over the lost years ??

Also when I get the new monitor Commodore 1084s, how will the amiga know what device to use, in \\workbench\devs\monitors I only have PAL.
I have looked on aminet and I cant find any drivers for the monitor, Do I need any ???

I have  got the  A1200 talking to my PC with the excellent cloanto amiga explorer (Money well spent),

I'm using a null modem serial cable.......so the big question is how can I get the A1200 to surf the net.
It's all abit much for my newbiness.....
If you reply pretend i'm really stupid and explain slowly please.

Thanks again and great website. Have got alot of info allready from other posts, but now I'm too stuck.

Hal2710e

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 Bios ??
Post by: iamaboringperson on August 25, 2003, 03:47:17 PM

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I can vaguely remember that there is a sort of bios style screen accessed at boot up by hold down some keys but cant remember which !!

'The early startup screen' No 'keys', just the left & right mouse buttons ;-)

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 Bios ??
Post by: Vincent on August 25, 2003, 03:50:31 PM

Hold down both mouse buttons when you switch on the A1200 or so a soft reset to get the Early Boot Screen :-)

The A1200 should display as normal when you plug it into a monitor - as long as the monitor can handle the resolution that you have saved.  The Amiga can be outputted to a tv and a monitor at the same time using the same monitor driver, so you should be able to get the monitor working no problems.

I have very limited experience getting the Amiga online, so I'll leave that for someone else to explain :-)

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 Bios ??
Post by: Hal2710e on August 25, 2003, 03:51:03 PM

AHHhhhhhhh

Thats it LOL

Hal2710e

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 Bios ??
Post by: Kronos on August 25, 2003, 03:56:11 PM

"PAL" is just right for the 1084, it should also take NTSC (60hz instead of 50, but smaller
screen) but that is all you should try as the 1084 is more of TV without tuner than a
modern monitor.

Actually it is a very very good TV-screen and was very popular in TV-studios at his time.

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 Bios ??
Post by: Doobrey on August 25, 2003, 05:31:49 PM

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Hal2710e wrote:
I'm using a null modem serial cable.......so the big question is how can I get the A1200 to surf the net.

You mean the amiga is connected to a PC and the PC is connected to the net?
 If so, you`ll need a TCP stack such as Miami or Genesis, and a browser (Voyager,IBrowser or Aweb).
 Set the PC to act as a RAS server on the com port the null modem cable is connected to, and have the Amiga dialup windows.
 Depending on what version of Windows you have, you`ll either have to enable Internet Connection Sharing, or install some NAT or proxy software.

 You don`t say what spec your 1200 is, but at the very least you`ll need some extra memory and a hard drive(possible with floppies, but it`ll be a real pain..disk swap hell) and it would be very slow to use unless  you had an accelerator.

 Sorry I can`t be more specific, but this is all I can remember about how I did it many years ago.