back to basics

[mattca]

Hi

I was an A500 gamer back when I should have been out getting drunk and discovering girls (well I did a bit but the Amiga games were what I remember )

Now I've just bought another A500 for the nostalgia, but I also picked up an A1200 and a HDD for it which I'm planning on messing with.
I've managed to hook them up to the PC via serial cable and Amiga Explorer.  I even managed to partition and install the HDD in the 1200, the system boots into Workbench 3.1 and runs AExplorer automatically which is pretty cool (to me )  Should I call the HDD "Workbench"?  Seemed to cause a problem when I had it named something else.

Now I'm at a bit of a dead-end.  I installed DPaint onto the HDD but it didn't create any icons...  I can run it from the shell but that kind of defeats the point of having a gui OS...

So the question is, where can a Windows user go to learn to do all the things he takes for granted?  And what the heck are these 'tools' I keep hearing about in Workbench?

[mattca]

Thanks Managarm, I think I've been to that site a couple of times but somehow it didn't make it into my bookmarks.  It has now...

And thanks for the welcome, melott.  I'm not a hugely frequent poster but I have learned that sadly not all forum-goers share your attitude toward questions.  But from what I've read so far you lot seem like a friendly bunch :-)

I think the dumb questions will begin when I outgrow this stock A1200, could be a while considering how stupid it makes me feel  :crazy:

[mattca]

Hi amigadave, thanks.

I finally figured out the icon situation, it's very bizarre at first but makes sense when you think about it.  I kept seeing the *.info files but it took me a while to make the connection  :-o

It's like a totally different system without the constant disk-swapping.