Problem with a new toy I picked up

[TheMagicM]

Yea thats the A500 I gave him.

Josh,

You need to make sure the RAM board is seated properly otherwise it will not boot.  It has no HD..its a floppy drive.  The silver triangle shape thing is a A501 ram expansion.  So you have 512k there, 512k on the mobo + 1.5megs on that A500 insider.  It worked fine here but like I said make sure its seated properly..thats why I gave it to you cause its a pain in the butt board. LOL

-Alex

[TheMagicM]

if you want to run it straight from a external you need a ...I dunno what to call it.. its a board that plugs into some chip that lets you use a external floppy to boot from (I forget which chip exactly). I have one but I'm using it.   It was made by ICD, the people who made the AdIDE internal IDE kit for the Amiga 500.


EDIT: you need a Shuffleboard..

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?product=shuffle