Hi
I spent a good while day before yesterday creating a specially edited version of the Amiga 1000 1.3 Workbench disk to include the Parnet software so I could link to an Amiga 600 and then discovered that the Parallel Port on the Amiga 1000 is MALE and not female as with all other Amigas. So I had to pause the process whilst my gender changer arrives from Ebay. I did first create a copy of the disk using the 1200 which didn't work. I had to create the disk on the 1000 and then edit by removing some of the fonts and utilities and SAY and stuff to get the Parnet on the disk. And it boots fine, just waiting for a network connection. Its things like that, that show how much the Amiga came on leaps and bounds once Commodore got hold of it. And I tend to agree with Paul and say if you have a working A500 with the GVP, why use the A1000.
Anyhoo.. Have fun.