amiga 500 questions...

[scuzzb494]

Hello


I recently bought from ebay an amiga 500 and i am pretty much excited!! I never owned this amiga model and i can say that is a real beauty

To my questions...

I want to use workbench 1.3.2 as operating system.

1.) How i can possible do this? I mean i want the operating system running from HDD not floppy.
2.) Do i need an accelerator board with scsi controller and HDD. Is there an alternative way to have HDD to an amiga 500?
3.) Do i have to buy newer version of kickstart roms?
4.) Is it possible to use whdload to this machine?

Any other ideas are welcome of course


Thank you.

http://www.gregdonner.org/workbench/wb_13.html

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz22.htm

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/car_0608/car08401.jpg

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/car_0108/car1207417.jpg

If your 500 is 1.2 what is the color of the CAPS LOCK light and what serial number is the machine ?

If you want the hard drive you will need to fit a side car or if very lucky an internal drive. The A590 was the common sidecar, though the GVP was also common. The MTEC I found was pretty poor, but worth a try.

I like the GVP to be honest.

If you find an accelerator for the 500 then let me know. Quite difficult to get. And really not important at all for games on the A500. Neither is the hard drive as the machine was designed to run games from the floppy.

The A1200 can be degraded to play 500 games, though I tend to keep my 500 just for playing games which I do run from the sidecar.