The internal drive is the boot drive. The other drives can read and write disks the same way the internal drive does once the computer has booted.
The AmigsOS consists of two parts: the ROM part called Kickstart and the disk part called Workbench. Workbench is also the name of the Amiga's desktop.
The Kickstart ROM contains the multitasking kernel, the graphics, sound and disk drivers, the DOS and the user interface libraries. The Workbench disks contain all the rest: desktop, fonts, additional libraries and drivers, utilities and extras.
Most games for the A500 come on its own boot disk, so it is not needed to insert a Workbench disk before. In fact most game disks even are unreadable by the standard AmigaDOS, the boot block contains the code to read the data. This is part of a copy protection.
Certainly you can code 68k assembler on and for the 68k processor.
First place to look for free Amiga software is Aminet:
www.aminet.netNow the bad news: no computer but an Amiga can write Amiga floppy disks. So you need someone who sends you a physical copy of a Workbench disk. Once the computer has successfully booted, you can run software to transfer files from a PC using a serial nullmodem cable or PC 720k disks.
Bye,
Thomas
