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Offline Tenacious

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Re: Workbench for Amiga 500
« on: January 14, 2012, 11:42:12 PM »
I think you can run Workbench 1.3 if you have version 1.2 of the rom.  I will look around for some of my old disks. I don't have 1.2.  Do you want to PM me with your shipping address?

I seem to be asking this a lot, lately.  What do you want to do with your Amiga, games, general computing, etc?

Have you used the platform before?
 

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Re: Workbench for Amiga 500
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2012, 01:01:30 AM »
I forgot today was a holiday, the post office should be running tomorrow.  I sent you a PM but I never get confirmation it worked.  I have a few disks coming your way.   They include some programs to help move software from Aminet to your PC to the Amiga.  I think they are all 1.3 compatible (a lot of SW evolved to require 2.x and 3.x, mininum).  I haven't gone thru all of my favorite modern apps, I simply grabbed the ones I used with 1.3 back in the day.  The Amiga has advanced much since 1.3.  Still, it's amazing what it could do then.

I included a few games (Dripman is cool), a terminal program (Access!), MultiDos (reads 720K IBM disks), LHA (the current de-archiver), SysInfo, XDME (text editor), some Voice of Amiga samples, and others.  I think all of this stuff is freeware.  It's enough for a beginning snapshot of Amiga in the late 1980s.  With a vintage Wintel box that includes a floppy drive or a serial port, you can acquire whatever else you want.

Some of these disk are OLD.  I don't think you should try to write to them, they may become corrupted.  Your drive has probably aged differently than the one that wrote them.  Hopefully, you have some blanks to work with.