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Offline luckydavidTopic starter

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Hi all!

I'm an old time A1200 owner from way-way back in the day, who's decided that the most important things in the world was to play Sensible World of Soccer on the Amiga again!  So, I've won a Amiga A600 on eBay with Extra RAM and a HD (allegedly):
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=8187536682&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT
and a copy of Sensible World of Soccer 95/96 and a Zipstick to take me back to all those wasted days...

My issue is that I've turned the A600 on, and it comes to the screen with the image of a disk being inserted into a drive.  The seller of the A600 auction stated that he thought I needed the "Kickstart disks", but I'm thinking that I might in fact be needing the Workbench Disks - am I right?

Also, I've just put the Disk 1 of the Sensible Soccer game into DF0: and the Amiga spins it up, clicks a couple of times and returns back to the same start screen.  Am I right in guessing that there may be something not quite right with the disks?  The SWOS box states that the game should work with all Amiga computers of 1Mb and over, and the RAM upgrade that I have checked to see it is there should take me over that magical figure, no?

Thirdly, if - hypothetically - I were to get hold of a downloaded 'ADF' ROM for SWOS that I had used successfully with WinUAE, is there any way I can put that information onto a 3.5" floppy to run on my new Amiga?  I understand it would have to go on a 720kB disk (I guess), but I'm concerned that - again hypothetically - the file size for such an ADF disk image is 880kB and would it transfer onto a 720 disk?

I really hope someone out there with a bigger brain than mine can explain what I need to do in English!

Regards,

David.
 

Offline luckydavidTopic starter

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Re: Hi all! Newbie who's won an A600 on eBay and needs help...!
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2005, 11:45:11 AM »
Hi again!  have done some searching and found some ideas for moving ADFs to Amiga disks...quick question is where can you find ADF2Disk on Aminet - I've been to us.aminet.net and searched on ADF2Disk but all I get is a page full of html text and no idea where to look for a download - any ideas?

Also, my A600 seems to have Kickstart 2.0 - can I buy Workbench 3.1 / 3.5 or even 2.04 as the eBay auction I won didn't come with these - any ideas?

David.