Workbench 1.3 Disk

[PanterHZ]

I never had much fun with Workbench on a plain 500, especially not 1.3.  I'd go for the games!

I have to agree with you here, because Workbench 1.3 couldn't show files that had no icons in the windows, and I had to use the Shell for doing most stuff. It almost felt like Workbench was something that just was there for no real practical reason + it used some precious RAM as well. So in the end I used a disk which booted directly into Dos instead.

It wasn't until I upgraded to Workbench 2.04 the fun started for me.

[PanterHZ]

Just torrent it.

I'm not a troll.

Yes but "pooboy 92" will still have a problem with transferring the ADF to his Amiga. His best chance is that Cammy or somebody else sends him a floppy.

[PanterHZ]

I just used Diskmaster 1.4 for file work..

Chris

Personally I used and still use FileMaster for managing files on my Amigas.

You say that as tho it's torture to use a command line!!!  :roflmao:
That Amiga shell is awesome.  Might not be BASH, but at least it's not ksh.  ;-)

Seriously, I got a program included with my external floppy (CLIMate or Diskmaster???) that fit the bill for me.  1.3 with that was great..

Although, I still spent a lot of time in the shell.. Because I like it.. :lol:

desiv

But it was torture to use a command line..... everytime I had to use MS-DOS that is :lol:

I have to agree, Amiga shell is awesome, but I think you didn't get my point here, because what I meant was that for example if I wanted to run a program that didn't have an icon, I couldn't do this from Workbench, I had to open a Shell and run it from there instead. This plus many other things made the actual Workbench seem a bit reduntant in my opinion.

So I made a customized startup disk which booted directly to AmigaDos instead, and by entering a command I got a menu that allowed me to start various programs like FileMaster and a text editor + other stuff.

Later I upgraded to AmigaOS 2.04 where I created a highly customized Workbench floppy which I then used.

And I must say that I regard 2.x to be the most important AmigaOS version ever!

[PanterHZ]

No, I got your point.  I was kind of joking.
But seriously, it didn't take me too long to figure out, all I needed to  do was keep a spare "program.info" file that I could copy and rename  (using the shell or the GUI file manager program I had).

I admit, it felt like there were a few things missing for the 1.x WBs.

But with a GUI file manager, it wasn't a problem.

It was nicer tho when those were built in in the 2.x/3.x versions.

desiv

Yes I should have figured you were joking based upon your smilies
I guess all AmigOS 1.3 users had to come up with various workarounds like the one you mention here.
 

I can't believe some of you guys are ripping on OS 1.3!   lol

It was quite fine for what it was back in the day, plus we had a shell (as others have pointed out), unlike Mac's at the time AND other filemanagers were readily available, even though I never had a real need for 'em.

To those that be hating Workbench 1.3, try using an early Atari ST sometime with its TOS and GEM - talk about a near worthless barebones stripped OS        

And I totally agree with you

Just to be crystal clear here, I don't hate WB 1.3, neither do I think it's bad either, it's just that 2.x & 3.x was sooo much better. But it's true, back in the day 1.3 was all we had, and we somehow managed with that as well.
 
Another thing is that although Workbench 1.3 is ugly as hell with the blue and orange colors, I think it still has a certain charm, and I even created a Winamp skin inspired by WB 1.3 a couple of years ago.

Here is a grab of the skin:

[PanterHZ]

I don't have direct experience of loss of data (I'm lucky enough to have a good backup of DS/DD disks, even if second hand ones), but data on HD disks shall be written with a stronger magnetic field by the drive head.
This is not the case if you use a double density drive, or a high density drive with the "tape trick".

I might also add that using a HD floppy as DD works best if the disk has never been formatted before, but sadly the majority of disks sold for the last ten years or so have been pre-formatted by the manufacturer.