jeroena wrote:
Hi there,
I just bought my first A500(!), being from the C64 camp, so to speak. The first difference I noticed is that this thing needs a bootdisk, as the bootscreen seems to indicate. I didn't got a single disk with the machine; I hope to get some later.
Anywayz, can someone point me to some good starter threads/websites? Some questions I have:
- There's a diskdrive in the A500 and another external drive. Is the OS loaded from the "Workbench" disks and games/progs from the other? My A500 asks for a v1.3 version.
- Is the Workbench program the accual OS or is it some kind of "Office" tool? And what's in the ROM part of the A500?
- Are the the user manuals available online in PDF somewhere?
- Can you code 68000 ASM on it?
Sorry if the answers are all over this site already... I hope I get it all to work!
Thnx.
Jeroen.
Hi there Jeroen
First of all, congratulations on getting an Amiga.
They are much more versatile and you can do much more than you can on your Commodore :-)
Right, first things first you can put your Workbench disk into any disk drive it won't make a difference, it will still load.
Most older games won't need you to load Workbench first, just put the game disk in and it will load directly from the disk prompt.
The Workbench is the Amiga operating system, although from 3.5 onwards it is now reffered to and called AmigaOS.
You're Amiga 500 computer comes with the 1.3 ROMS as indicated on the disk prompt.
This means you can only load Workbench 1.3 and earlier.
This is fine if all you want to run is old games, 1.3 will run many without a hitch.
If all you are interested in is games, it's not really worth bothering with Workbench; like I mentioned most games will just run without needing the Workbench disk.
There is a program you should look for called DevPac from HiSoft, this lets you code.
Have fun with your new Amiga, and hope you have many years of happy computing with it no matter what you want to use it for!
:-)
