Amiga 1200HD startup question...

[sturulez]

Ive recently purchased an amiga 1200 HD from amigakit.com and it is a great piece of kit.
 
My question is with my previous amiga 1200 i had a HD installed and when i turned the power on i would get the purple screen showing insert disk animation which was good for games that i didnt install and old games i wanted to run. I would press ctl A & A to boot up the hard drive..
 
With my A1200HD from amigakit.com it does come with a installed hard drive but i cant seem to get the insert screen animation. instead when i turn it on it goes straight to workbench which is anoying if i want to play older games... is there any way i can get change the boot up sequence so i can have the purple insert screen animation??
 
thanks

[scuzzb494]

Ive recently purchased an amiga 1200 HD from amigakit.com and it is a great piece of kit.
 
My question is with my previous amiga 1200 i had a HD installed and when i turned the power on i would get the purple screen showing insert disk animation which was good for games that i didnt install and old games i wanted to run. I would press ctl A & A to boot up the hard drive..
 
With my A1200HD from amigakit.com it does come with a installed hard drive but i cant seem to get the insert screen animation. instead when i turn it on it goes straight to workbench which is anoying if i want to play older games... is there any way i can get change the boot up sequence so i can have the purple insert screen animation??
 
thanks

Hold the two mouse buttons down on boot and you go to a boot screen and select boot from the floppy drive. If you have the game in the floppy it will generally boot straight from the floppy anyway.

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com

[Thomas]

My question is with my previous amiga 1200 i had a HD installed and when i turned the power on i would get the purple screen showing insert disk animation which was good for games that i didnt install and old games i wanted to run. I would press ctl A & A to boot up the hard drive..

This is a bug in Kickstart 3.0. Couldn't even imaging that somebody would find it useful. Your new Amiga probably has Kickstart 3.1 which does not have this bug.

[The Hanged Man]

HD probably had slow spin-up, and didn't get detected on the initial boot. While warmbooting (ctrl-A-A), the HD has already spinned up.
 
It's not really a bug, it's just a matter of the preset hd-wait-delay.

[paul1981]

I miss my old purple screen.

[Cammy]

You shouldn't need to worry, if your Amiga is booting up Workbench or has booted up already, just put your floppy disk in and reboot with CTRL A A, and the game will run. You won't need to go to the boot menu or anything, the Amiga prioritises the floppy drive over the hard drive so if there's a disk in there it will boot from that first.