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Offline whabang

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Re: Amiga workbench
« on: May 02, 2011, 09:20:38 PM »
Quote from: lsmart;634931
So this is it? Amiga.org has become a forum for thiefs and naysayers?


I find it funny how the Coffee house-section is filled with all kinds of controversial statements, and how people still get offended whenever they encounter someone who openly admits pirating software.

To get back on topic, yes, you can load Workbench straight off a floppy, using nothing but an AmigaDOS prompt as long as you're using 3.1 (can't remember how it was in the old days, but that's irrelevant) or higher. The problem is that you will lack quite a few basic utilities, but I assume that can be solved with third-party software.

It would be interesting to see how far one can get using nothing but open-source and freeware/PD. I might actually give it a try, just for the challenge. :)
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Re: Amiga workbench
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2011, 01:49:03 PM »
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I don't think there exists a freeware alternative to the LoadWB command, so that rules out Workbench.
Oh, I thought the LoadWB command was ROM'ed in the later versions. Ah well, my bad!
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