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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Fleetingthought on January 14, 2012, 07:22:22 PM
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Hello,
Just picked up an Amiga 500 sans power supply and workbench disk. Got the power supply taken care of by re-purposing a PC power supply, so the Amiga fires up and asks for the workbench disk (v1.2).
All my hardware is PC and Apple.
Is there anyone around central Arkansas that can make a disk for me?
It would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Fleetingthought
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I think you can run Workbench 1.3 if you have version 1.2 of the rom. I will look around for some of my old disks. I don't have 1.2. Do you want to PM me with your shipping address?
I seem to be asking this a lot, lately. What do you want to do with your Amiga, games, general computing, etc?
Have you used the platform before?
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I recall using WB 1.3 on my KS1.2 A500, but that was a long time ago, so I could be mistaken.
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You can boot from Workbench 1.3 disk with Kickstart 1.2 system but you are really getting Workbench 1.2. Workbench is in Kickstart ROM and it is just started using LoadWB command.
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I forgot today was a holiday, the post office should be running tomorrow. I sent you a PM but I never get confirmation it worked. I have a few disks coming your way. They include some programs to help move software from Aminet to your PC to the Amiga. I think they are all 1.3 compatible (a lot of SW evolved to require 2.x and 3.x, mininum). I haven't gone thru all of my favorite modern apps, I simply grabbed the ones I used with 1.3 back in the day. The Amiga has advanced much since 1.3. Still, it's amazing what it could do then.
I included a few games (Dripman is cool), a terminal program (Access!), MultiDos (reads 720K IBM disks), LHA (the current de-archiver), SysInfo, XDME (text editor), some Voice of Amiga samples, and others. I think all of this stuff is freeware. It's enough for a beginning snapshot of Amiga in the late 1980s. With a vintage Wintel box that includes a floppy drive or a serial port, you can acquire whatever else you want.
Some of these disk are OLD. I don't think you should try to write to them, they may become corrupted. Your drive has probably aged differently than the one that wrote them. Hopefully, you have some blanks to work with.