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A few newbie AmigaDOS questions
« on: July 24, 2004, 02:39:10 AM »
Good evening folks!

I recently got my first Amiga, and am thrilled to add it to my collection of platforms. Its a 1200 with an internal harddrive, and nothing particularly special. When I boot it, it boots off the harddrive to an amiga dos CLI. However, when I type commands like "dir" for example, it says Unknown command. Some commands like set and cd appear to work though. Any thoughts on why some commands work but not others? How should I upgrade the OS, without any other amigas around. Thanks in advance for any help!

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Re: A few newbie AmigaDOS questions
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2004, 12:29:41 PM »
Thanks for all the great help. :) Now I atleast know what I have to do. My question is, I have a full set of workbench adfs, is there any operating system/platform combination that can properly write amiga disks? Linux, sunos, etc. I know that PC hardware evidently cant, but can something like Sun hardware? Also, is there anyway to do this using an external amiga floppy drive (ie parallel port) on a PC? Thanks again,

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Re: A few newbie AmigaDOS questions
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2004, 04:37:10 PM »
Would it be possible to pull the harddrive out of the 1200 and image/format/copy files on in Linux on a PC?
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Re: A few newbie AmigaDOS questions
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2004, 05:22:07 PM »
ahhhh using winuae worked like a charm, thanks all! i have it setup properly now :)
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Re: A few newbie AmigaDOS questions
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2004, 08:48:30 PM »
One other question, now that I have it all setup. Its running on my NTSC tv, but everything is black and white. I have ntsc highres mode set in workbench, with 256 colors selected, but it all still comes up black and white. I tried running some demos, but they always seem to be black and white and the gfx look messed up/corrupt. Any thoughts?
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Re: A few newbie AmigaDOS questions
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2004, 11:22:41 PM »
I'm using the composite output. Its a euro amiga, set to "NTSC - High res 640x200", even workbench has no colors. Any thoughts as to why theres no color? I've tried a few tvs, direct and through a vcr. (its workbench 3.1)
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Re: A few newbie AmigaDOS questions
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2004, 12:03:31 AM »
theres no scart input on my tv :P
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Re: A few newbie AmigaDOS questions
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2004, 05:23:41 AM »
Well interesting either way.. Its not just a problem that with NTSC mode not properly displaying ntsc color fields on european units? Perhaps attaching it through the RF modulator port could bypass this possible bad-pin problem? Would a attaching a multisync monitor via an amiga->vga adapter be a viable solution? Thanks for any advice regarding these.

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