Hello and a couple of questions

[redfan]

Hi,

Firstly as I mentioned in my first post I am so pleased that the Amiga community is still going strong after all this time.

My current desktop is a MacMini, which I have to say is a fantastic machine and using OS X is such a relief from XP ...

Using an Amiga started for me back in 1987/8 with an A500 and I can still remember being utterly amazed at the amazing games such as Xenon 2, Batman the Movie and Beast !! not to mention the awesome demo scene (Coma and Rebels Megademo II to name but a few) and ended with an A1200 in 2000 when I got married.

Anyway,  I am shortly to receive a A600 via an Ebay auction and I have a couple of questions as the stuff I have read online differs from my impression of the machine back in the day.

From the screenshots it has Workbench 2.04 and Kickstart 37.299.

1) I intend to add a 2.5" 180MB HD in the internal slot, will this work?  If not what do I need to do to be able to do so?

2) I need to be able to use CrossDos to read 720k PC formatted disks (in order to copy compressed adf's at work) does my workbench have this?  If not what can I do to be able to do this?

Many thanks for taking the time to look at this.

Cheers
Red
 

[redfan]

Thanks Thomas,

Does this therefore mean that the HDD would be recognised, you just cannot boot from it (in other words I would need to use the workbench floppy to boot workbench to use the HDD)?

Also, how hard is it to actually change the ROM as I am not good at soldering things at all.

Cheers for your help.

Red