Help with Amiga 1000

[robert3353]

Hello All,

I am about to reveal some info that will hint at my age, I still own an Amiga 1000 that I bought the summer of 1987.  I have not used it for a while but it worked the last time that I had it hooked up, well I recently decided to set it back up to see if it will still operate, however I cannot locate any of my system disks, 1.3 kickstart and 1.3 workbench disks.  Does anyone know where I might be able to purchase replacement system disks for this old friend?  I have sent an email to the people at the Amiga Forever web site a few days ago but have never received a reply.  I know that their CD's have them on it but do not know how I would be able to get them on to an original Amiga floppy.  The old A-1000 did not have a hard drive and did not have the kick start burned to a rom but instead had to be loaded from a floppy.

I also remember seeing a modification for the external floppy drive that enabled you to hook it up to a PC on the web a few years ago but cannot locate it now.  Anyone know anything about this as well?

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated
Robert

[melott]

As far as the floppy is concerned .. I can't help.
But for the kickstart, I had a DKB rom switcher in
my A1k with 1.3 and 3.1 roms. It solved the problem
of needing a kickstart disk. Oh .. also used an A500
RocTec harddrive on the A1k. Booted straight from
the HD.

[glitch]

Hi,

     I've got an extra set.  You pay the postage and they're yours!  Send me PMail if you're interested.

     I love my old A1000.  I used to have a ROM switcher in it too, but I don't recall  what happened to it.  I've now got an Insider with 1.5MB of RAM on it though and a nice Zorro bus board adaptor so I can use A2000 Zorro II cards on it.   Mmmmm SCSI.

-G

[Acill]

Yeah I got the insider rom board for mine as well. You need to do that
and get yourself a cheap A500 hard drive controller. The site
backwords but work fine.