Amiga workbench Disk

[Evidious]

I recently got an amiga 500 and I need the workbench v1.3 disk.Does anybody know where I can pick them up?

[mrnukem]

If your using windows xp you can read & write Amiga disks on your 3.5 " drive (can't be a USB 3.5" drive)

 

You need to 1st install this floppy drive driver found here : http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/

 

There are various utilities that you can get to then read & write amiga disks and also some of the emulators do it. The page where you download that driver from has some links at the bottom for various systems including Amiga.

 

You can find Workbench and loads of other disk images here http://www.planetemu.net/index.php?section...&machine=31

 

Hope this helps

[Quadhorn]

If your using windows xp you can read & write Amiga disks on your 3.5 " drive (can't be a USB 3.5" drive)

Really? Seriously? I was under the impression that PC disk drives can't, regardless of software, because the way they're built with Independent Drive Electronics prevents the kind of low-level control needed. If I'm wrong, fair do's; Evidious, tell us how it goes.

 

For the workbench images, you can also try:

 

http://tahirtas.tripod.com/Amiga/amiga2.html

 

If mrnukem's suggestion doesn't work, you'll need either a drive which can write Amiga disk formats, like a CatWeasel, or an Amiga 1200 - they can read 720kB DOS disks. Copy the .adf image to a 720kB DOS disk, create a RAM disk on the Amiga, copy the image into that, then write out the image to a new disk as an Amiga disk. Erm .... there's more to it than that, but it's been a while since I've done it and I don't have an Amiga to hand at the minute. You might have to compress the disk image to fit it on the DOS disk.

[Evidious]

Thanks for the reply guys.From my understanding only workbench 2.0 and above can read PC formatted disk.I only have 1.3v I recently upgraded the bios to 3.1 but my amiga has been giving me errors so i am thinking i got a bad rom chip.I will try what you said and let you know what happends with the orginal rom chip.

[Ze_ro]

You might find this link useful.

 

--Zero

[Rybags]

Do those utilities allow creating/writing Amiga disks from PC though?

 

I have used the technique that employs two floppy drives successfully (the second drive is just used for syncing purposes).

[icbrkr]

Amiga Workbench 2.1 and higher ships with CrossDOS that allows the AmigaOS to read/write 720K PC formatted disks. A PC disk drive cannot write (I'll reiterate that a few more hundred times) Amiga disks unless you have a Catweasel controller hooked up. If a disk image (ADF) file is under 720K (the Amiga format for a floppy is normally 880K), you can bring it over to your Amiga and write a real disk there using a ton of different utils found on aminet.net

 

That said, if you need a WB 1.3 disk for an A500, send me a physical address and I'll send you one.

[Rybags]

I used to do disks in 2 passes - was necessary due to 720K PC disk format and only having 1 meg RAM on the 500.

 

I made a null modem cable too, but I don't think it gave any real advantage.

 

You still have to transfer the ADF, then create the real disk from the image on the Amiga.

[Evidious]

Thanks Icbrkr.I sent you a pm.let me know if you get it.I bought an 3.1 rom and the workbench disk for it but it has been giving me errors.I would like to try the workbench for the V1.3 and see if everything is working right.Thanks for you help guys.This turned out alot harder than I thought it would be.I have a null cable and Amiga Forever ready to go when I get everything working right and when I figure all this out

[icbrkr]

Thanks Icbrkr.I sent you a pm.let me know if you get it.I bought an 3.1 rom and the workbench disk for it but it has been giving me errors.I would like to try the workbench for the V1.3 and see if everything is working right.Thanks for you help guys.This turned out alot harder than I thought it would be.I have a null cable and Amiga Forever ready to go when I get everything working right and when I figure all this out

 

 

Upgrading an A500 to WB 3.1 is a bit like torture and there's no real benefits The 500 with 1MB running 1.3 is the most compatible system for playing games in general - best not to mess with it. If you want to upgrade to 3.1, grab an A1200 or something similar.

 

Amiga Forever's AmigaExplorer works pretty well - slow, but it does work. I didn't get the PM, but I got the disks made and I believe they work (if not, I'll send you a different one). My A4000T appears to not like to boot into WB 1.3 which I'm not surprised.

[Evidious]

Thanks Icbrkr.So my best bet is just to leave it alone and get more memory.I posted help in two amiga forums that dealt with Amiga's and did not get any help.I think it's very ironic that I got more help in an Atari site than Amiga site

Thanks again for everones help.I will let you know how it turns out.

[tjlazer]

Thanks Icbrkr.So my best bet is just to leave it alone and get more memory.I posted help in two amiga forums that dealt with Amiga's and did not get any help.I think it's very ironic that I got more help in an Atari site than Amiga site

Thanks again for everones help.I will let you know how it turns out.

 

 

If you need help I am an Amiga guru. Do you have Kickstart 3.1? Does it work? (does it boot?) I can sell you a set of Workbench 3.1 disks with labels (six) let me know...