Problems with first-time setup of WinUAE

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Well, I did that I got a pop-up giving me a list which kinds of ROMs were acceptable (it's possible I have a ROM from my A4000 - can they be 1Mb?) and got the animation of a hand inserting a disk, so I figured it was looking next for the OS (I forget what that animation means now since I have had working Amigas for 20 years). Indeed, in the configuration options I don't see a way to tell the program where the OS is, although I've placed it in the WinUAE folder

Looks like it's working. 'All' you have to do now is to make a boot partition under win and put the amiga files in there. And make winuae see this partition as harddrive.

The next time I opened the program and hit Start I got a pop-up message, "You need to have a floppy disk (image file) in df0: to use the System ROM replacement", so I'm not sure it's recognizing the ROM after all. I also did a ROM rescan and it said none were available.

Did you make a config name and press save ?

Is there a WinUAE-specific site with a bulletin board? All I found was an E-UAE (English Amiga Users UAE site)? There's no text file with the program other than the details of past versions of the program (e.g. bugs fixed)

Yes, it's here: http://eab.abime.net/forumdisplay.php?f=5

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Can you or someone tell me how to do it, or would you rather I ask further question at the EUAE website two of you so kindly directed me to?

Start winuae and press 'help', right lower button. Then go to the 'winuae for first time users' section. This should help quite a bit.

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The problem is that Help is ghosted when I start up

Which version are you using ? If you have the latest, plz report this bug to Tony.
Hope these explanations help a bit more: http://guide.abime.net/home3.htm & http://guide.abime.net/wb3.1/chap1.htm

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The Help button is ghosted when the help file is missing. The help file is not maintained by Toni Wilen. You can download it here: http://www.pcguru.plus.com/uae_faq.html

Must have been a long time ago since got it. Totally forgot i downloaded it.