A500 Newbie directions

[jeroena]

Hi there,

I just bought my first A500(!), being from the C64 camp, so to speak. The first difference I noticed is that this thing needs a bootdisk, as the bootscreen seems to indicate. I didn't got a single disk with the machine; I hope to get some later.

Anywayz, can someone point me to some good starter threads/websites? Some questions I have:

- There's a diskdrive in the A500 and another external drive. Is the OS loaded from the "Workbench" disks and games/progs from the other? My A500 asks for a v1.3 version.
- Is the Workbench program the accual OS or is it some kind of "Office" tool? And what's in the ROM part of the A500?
- Are the the user manuals available online in PDF somewhere?
- Can you code 68000 ASM on it?

Sorry if the answers are all over this site already... I hope I get it all to work!

Thnx.
Jeroen.

[jeroena]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick startup, guys! I should be getting some disks from the guy I bought it from, so lets hope it contains any of the above.

I managed to hook my C64 diskdrive up to my PC's parrallel port, so the COM link for the A500 sounds like state of the art!

Gr.,
Jeroen.