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Offline Pat the Cat

Re: Workbench 2.1 on Amiga 500
« on: May 12, 2017, 03:03:40 PM »
Quote from: fondpondforever;825590
Ok thanks. What would happen if you put a 'A600HD Install Disk Version 2.05' Disk into a Amiga 500. Would it install or say error? Thanks.

I discovered just a few weeks back that Install 2.04 and maybe 2.05 WILL boot up on a Kickstart 1.3 A500. Historical issue, some people had Kickstart on disk, not on ROM.

After boot, you can setup a hard drive, copy software to the hard drive, no problem.

HOWEVER, when you try to boot the hard drive with a new Workbench 2 install, that's when you get the error message (Workbench 2 onwards requires a Kickstart 2 ROM).
 
 The actual Install disks will work under earlier versions of Kickstart, but not the Workbench or other disks.
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