Hi guys--
Will the Workbench 1.3 floppy that came with an A3000 work with the earlier Amigas? Trying to get an A2500 up and running and it throws a #00000004 error when loading Workbench 1.3 as supplied by my A3000. Just want to rule out an incompatible Workbench version...
Thanks!
The A3000 does not use the same battery backed up clock hardware as previous models (A500, A2000) did. The Workbench 1.3 disk therefore includes a special "SetClock" command which *may* not work well with on an A2000 type of machine.
I wrote *may* because there have been various compatibility issues with the SetClock command versions that shipped between 1987-1994, which could result in crashes (the SetClock version intended for A500/A2000 crashes instantly on the A3000) and stalled system startup (some SetClock versions intended for the A500/A2000 will drop into an infinite loop for years beyond 1999).
Unless you have already found a different solution, I would recommend that you edit the S:Startup-Sequence file and comment out the line which invokes the "SetClock" command. Alternatively, you could replace SetClock with the updated version which came with the Y2K article yours truly wrote back in 1998:
http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/amiga_bogue_an2000_en.php
