help needed, just set up amiga 1200

[r0jaws]

After reading your posts I think you might find Emulation more satisfying.
Running WINUAE and installing OS 3.9 to that will be a lot easier.
Then you could sell all your amiga hardware and make someone else very happy indeed.

As an aside, the Amiga's OS was considerably easier to use than Windows/ DOS in its day.
You do realise that this is a considerably older piece of kit and all this convenience touted by Windows is as the result of an extra 15 years of development (not all of it theirs BTW)?

[ami_junki]

Leytond mate, listen the best option for you would be to buy a Compact Flash card, Compact Flash card IDE adapter and download Classic WB Classic WB this will save you money and time. Classic WB is free and it does pretty much all the things that your Windows XP does or all that can be expected for a computer of its age.  In the end of the day - your better off first with Classic WB as it has a lot stuff installed including software which Amiga OS 3.5 doesn`t have.  Installing Classic WB is piss easy as long as you buy a 15 quid Compact Flash kit from AmigaKit.com.  Trust me on this.

[Amiduffer]

Normally, when you bought an Amiga, it came with the workbench disks, so you were provided with the means of partitioning and setting up the harddrive rather easily, or even running it off of disks alone if you didn't have a harddrive.

I think you mentioned that you're having problems with your HD? How big is it anyway? Until you install 3.9 on it, you can't use drives bigger than 4 gigabytes.

[marcfrick2112]

Lyetond: Amiduffer has a good point. A lot of us started out with one new(ish) Amiga with all the disks, manuals, etc. This hobby (as all do) has a learning curve. For some, it's a bit easier as we went from say, a basic A500 to a fairly tricked out A4000T (in my case) We installed more and more software, learned more about the hardware, etc. I still have problems with my Amigas, despite a good amount of experience.

Comparing Amiga today to a PC isn't really fair, the PC market has endless $$$, lots of overpriced software, (and, to be fair, some very good free software) but still is not perfect... I would joke that I could go online, check my E-Mail, and 'shutdown' my Amiga, before I could get online on my, admittedly slow, PC....

It may take some time and patience, my friend, but you will get everything sorted out ....  :-)

[leytond]

im getting sorted now, my hard drive is an 80 gig 3.5 external connected to my dvd rom drive,
ive got most problems sorted out last night,
installed some softwware that makes the os3.1 look loads better allthough it is still the very basic thing,
my hardrive is partitiond into 4 parts and seems to be working ok, like i said very fast to boot.
there are two things ive noticed, no facility to write cds and no media player,

oohhh will this item work on it,
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/987731#productInformationSection

i havnt got a clue if it will work.

[leytond]

i have downloaded tis clasic workbench,
but when i get it is in a zip file ,
how do i get it onto the amiga, do i burn it onto a cd then install it on the amiga,
i have tried that but the amiga wont recognise the files on the cd.?
am i doing something wrong !
how do i install it ive looked at the instruction on there website, trust me they might as well be wrote in german, they make no sence,
something about inserting roms into folders, ?

[Lorraine]

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[leytond]

so i have to connect the amiga hdd to the pc, how do i do that,
the pc wont read the drive due to the fact it is formated with the amiga,
so what do i do there, ??

[Lorraine]

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[leytond]

why do i need a cf card, i have a 3.5 pc hdd on the amiga 80 gig.
it is external all i have to do is unplug it and it will fit into my ps, but the problem is that my pc is all sata connecters the only ide is on the dvd writer,
but the amiga hard drive is just a standard pc 3.5 drive.
so i have to get the software that will transfer the unzipped files, but when i unzip the files the pc dont recognise them they are adf files.
this is getting a bit silly now aint it,
LOL
what is the software i need to get ?

[leytond]

it says this when i click on it.
one of these system roms is needed then it just gose of,
have i done something wrong.

[leytond]

it says the system rom i path is empty ?
were do i get the roms from.

[Lorraine]

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[leytond]

click on paths rescan roms, it says all roms are unavailable , seems it dosnt work,
what am i doing wrong

[leytond]

- Kickstart 3.x ROM Image (from somewhere)
- Workbench 3.x Disk/ADF Image
were do i get these from and how do i get an adf image of my wb disk the pc wont read amiga disks,

[motorollin]

Just buy OS3.9.

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moto