#HD and amiga 1200
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i just buy a seagate for my amiga 1200 but i can't find the utility to install
it. is it somewhere in the commodore forum ? why is it not given with the amiga
?
i have also problems of compatibility with latest software of amiga 500 even if
disactivate caches et i restore "oldest chip" at boot time is there a 500
emulator , in order to have greatest compatibility with A500
Thierry,
1) Sad but true, Commodore deliberately left out the Hard Disk
Installation disk from the Workbench disk set for A1200s without hard
disk. I think by now you may buy this disk from them, though. Or you can
buy a third-party installation disk, there are a couple out there, only I
don't know who does them. (sorry!)
But this is really no excuse for them (C=) not shipping it in the first
place. 50 cents for a disk surely don't make the Amiga too expensive!!!
2) The are 2 or 3 tools out there (for example DEGRADER) which try to
emulate a lesser machine on a souped-up Amiga. If and to what extent they
actually manage to improve A500 compatibility on A1200 etc. I don't know.
// Chris coming in from Germany
\X/ on AutoPilot 1.06………..
Thierry-
I've used a DEGRADER program that came with an English mag with some
degree of success. It has not been 100%. It did however work better,on
some programs, than the method of holding down both mouse buttons while
rebooting.
As to the disk set: The mid-summer 1993 TENEX catalogue has an A600/A1200
hard drive kit. It includes install and font disk, cable assembly,
mounting screws, Amiga Hard Disk Users Guide, AmigaDOS manual, Amiga ARexx
manual, upgrade instructions and an approved hard drive list. This is a C=
item so it shouldn't be neccessary to order from TENEX. I just received
the documentation kit, which is just the manuals.
Hope this is informative.
Flying AutoPilot——-Everett—-Portland, Oregon
I just called Commodore Express and SCREAMED. It worked, what can I say?
The only thing you need off the HDInstall disks is HDToolbox. Personally,
I think MicroBotic's RDPrep is better, and they released it as FREEWARE
over in the Microbotice forum.
Brian — Cruising on AutoPilot…..