i have just aquired a 1200 and i need help

[ste182]

Hiya,

Sorry if this is in the wrong section, i just didnt know where to put this as this thread could fit in to multiple threads.

I`ve just got myself an amiga 1200 and im looking for some help with it. Ive just bought a new compact flash drive and a wireless card for it(ive read around and got the one that "apparently" works best its a netgear m4a01) both things have not arrived in the post yet. so i have a few questions and hoping someone can help me out.

1) when i get my wireless cared how will i get it to work

2) what is the best OS for the amiga 1200

3) how can i get games from my pc on to a floppy to work with the amiga 1200

4) some of the games i got with the a1200 dont really work and i get the orange message(whats this all about and how do i solve this)

5) how do i find out what hardware is in my amiga e.g kickstart version cpu and ram?

6) any good usefull tips that i could get the most out of my amiga?


thankyou very much for looking at this post and i hope someone replys soon i look forward to using this website!

 :-D

[ste182]

thankyou very much for your help i will check that stuff out. I used to have an amiga 600 when i was a kid but i just used it for games that i had so i want to use it for more now and would like to know how. please keep the replys coming

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i just checked out the links. My amiga 1200 doesnt have a cd drive how would i achived the easynet without having a cd drive or would getting one really help me out? And also what are lha files are they like .exe in windows? Im sorry about my noobish questions thanks alot

[ste182]

thanks guys.

I couldnt use the compact flash card for transfering as it will be used as a hardrive therefore inside my amiga, it would be painfull keep opening up my amiga to use it everytime.

So as i understand lha is like a rar file? IS it the primary compress type for the amiga?

yeah games programming for the amiga is something im interested in not at this time though just getting used to it first and getting it sorted out.

thanks for the replys. Is till havent heard anything about a good operating system yet though. Or best ones.

thankyou

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ive also been checking out a few websites and heard of a PPC they sound pretty important how will i find out if my amiga has one and what is it? thanks

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whats the difference between workbench and say os4.0?

Do you need any specifics to run os4.0 or does it make things slower?

I will probably be trying to install a cd rom in the future but maybe externally (if thats possible)?

thanks for the reply

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how many ide slots are there in the amiga. i know theres the one for the harddrive and then the floppy drive but then how many others? i didnt know there were any so how could i get a cdrom to work?

edit: and roughly how much are the ppc cards?

edit: ive just looked at the buffered ide card and ignore this original post as i see it splits the ide and gives you more ide slots thank you this will be something i will be getting very soon. How would i install it though?

[ste182]

ahhh right so you have your harddrive in the first port with the os installed and install the software and then you can plug whatever you want in to the seccond port. thankyou

[ste182]

ok so what operationg systems have i the chance for with out a ppc? thanks

[ste182]

wow thanks homeer great help.

Ive just got a floppy disc drive for my pc to get games and play them(id prefer to use this method) so is there any formatting programs i need or anything like that?

And what is 030? how do i know if i have this?

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no i dont have any add-ons so could i run 3.8 or 3.7 well any apart from 3.5, 3.9 and 4.x?

thanks

[ste182]

Okay that wil be something to look into next month when its payday again :-D
thankyou

Ive just realised something aswell. Right so im getting my wireless card, and to install it i need the program like prism 2 but i have no way of moving this software from my pc to my amiga other than floppys and ive been reading around that its near imposible to create a floppy in your pc that will run on amiga. So how do i overcome this?

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DoogUK wrote:
AmigaOS includes a ultility called crossdoss that lets you read and write 720k pc formatted pc disks, it's ok for transfering smaller files.

but floppy discs are 1.4mb so how can i do it so its 720kb

[ste182]

ok kool, where is the storage folder? i dont have any hdd at the moment so i run wb 3 from the floppy disc, all i have is workbench 3 ram and ? when i put another blank floppy in.

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and also dont i need a ppc accelorator for os3.5 as someone mentioned?

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i do have a harddrive, it came today, its a compact flash harddrive 4gb i think it comes with 3.1 installed so i might stick with that ive read around that you can change the gui and add better icons is this true?

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how do i find the c: directory because im being told to copy the installer to the c directory but i dont know how to find the c directory

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on the workbench main screen all i have is ram, games 1, games 2 and workbench, if i go into multiview there is a c drive but nowhere on the workbence gui