Amiga 500 Questions

[lsmart]

However, I can transfer quite a bit of the stuff this way.

Right, but it doesn´t help the OP, because he needs his initial Workbench disk to read anything that isn´t FFS or OFS formatted. You need PC0: to read FAT/MS-DOS and this is not in the Kickstart.

You could however use Public domain software to get there. There are many bootable PD-disks some of them even include a stripped down Workbench. And then there is (IIRC) e.g. MessyDos (MD0:) which will do the same thing as workbenchs PC0:.

If you want to go this way you should have at least 1M of RAM or better - a second diskdrive. It will take some time to get up and running.

It´s perhaps easier to get a preowned copy of Workbench on eBay.

[dougal]

I think the best idea would be to:

[A] Get a Kickstart 3.1 Rom
Order it with the Kickstart 3.1 Floppy disks
[C] Use crossdos to access PC formatted 720k floppy disks with ADF's copied onto them.

The problem really is the limitation of the 720k PC formmated disks .

The other solution would be to use a registered version of 'Amiga Explorer' . Copy the Amiga part onto a PC formatted floppy disk and access it using Crossdos (PC0:) .

Using a NULL MODEM CABLE , you can transfer what you want from PC to Amiga and then use ADF2DISK or something similar to convert the ADF's back to real disk .

Would be much easier if you also had an A600 or A1200 , coz you could use a PCMCIA to CF adapter .

[Super TWiT]

Thanks for all that help, I have one more question, not to hijack my own thread but I was having a problem deciding between a tv modulator or a vga adapter. I know you can get higher resolution with the vga adapter, but most monitors are dvi now. I know you can get a vga to dvi adaptor, but the reason these work is because you can use an analog signal with the monitor. Is this feature part of the dvi standard or is it monitor specific? I am trying to pick the display method that will survive the longest in the future. If the analog feature is monitor specific my fear is that monitors may eventually drop support for the signal type.