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Offline FrobozzTopic starter

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Heya everybody,

A guy who works for my dad has been going on about how fantastic Amiga machines are for as long as I can remember, so when an opportunity presented itself to get ahold of one, I lept at it.  So here I am with a new Amiga 1000.  The guy who I got it from was kind enough to include a copy of Kickstart 1.3 with it, but I've yet to get the damned thing to actually boot up with it.  

I can't ever get past the Kickstart disk icon you get when you turn the machine on.  When Kickstart is being run after the disk is inserted, all I get is a gray screen and the computer just sits there (although it did flash yellow this one time and that got me very hopeful) - no prompt to put in the Workbench disk, nothing.

I asked my dad's employee what I ought to do, but as he as an A1200 he wasn't sure, so I turn to you, the Internet.  Does anyone have any suggestions; am I doing something wrong or is my Kickstart disk borked?
 

Offline FrobozzTopic starter

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Sorry, that was a typo.  It's version 1.3.
 

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Okay, I'll try my hand at cleaning the drive.  Thanks for the help - I'll report back when there's something to know :)