Pippi wrote:
>one, my amiga. I just got it, and can't get the hard drive to work. What
>should I do?
Start from floppy perhaps? (and then format the drive - if/when you come to
this I can look it up in my borrowed AMIGA manual).
>am running kickstart 1.3 and workbench 1.3
>can I write disks for it with my PC so I could download more software from
>the web for it?
You can not write disks for it on your PC. There's however a device you can
connect back on your LPT port that will let you use an extra Amiga floppy
drive to write disks - but lacking an extra drive will make it impossible
(and you need to know how to make circuits as wells).
What you can do is write AMIGA files to a PC floppy and use them on the
AMIGA (by mounting PC0: anbd PC1:) That way you can get new programs
(there's still newly made programs for the AMIGA - a browser that sounds
better than Arahcne for instance) over.
But since your problem seems to be with the workbench disk that will not
help you.
As I understand it you need to find someone else that has an AMIGA that
works and is willing to make a copy of workbench for you. Some WorkBenches
(or is it KickStarts?) where made espacially for early AMIGAs that had a
HD. These machines might not operate good (or at all) with an incorrect
version of WorkBench (or KickStart).
I could send you a floppy (by regular mail) but that will probably be too
costly to be of any use.
BTW: You never specified what AMIGA it was - but the description you gave
in the earlier mail sounds like an AMIGA 500 (with an AMIGA 520 (the
external HD)). As you may remember I'm trying to use that HD in my PC
instead (since I don't have an AMIGA 500), but my BIOS can't find it :( I
know one out of all the computers here could found it - if I just can
remember which so I can get the specs I need for the BIOS.
>two: arachne, how much space does it require? RAM? Is it a good program
>for a blind user?
I can atleast answer the last one easily (and therefor jump the other
questions) - no.
Arachne writes directly to the graphics memmory and the "blind programs"
can't "see" this. A device connected between graphics card and monitor
could in theory - as could a specially made graphics card (once again in
theory)).
>His disk was full, it overflowed last November, so I helped him delete over
>15MB of downloaded documents from his telix directory.
Perhaps a quick course in deleting files would help him? (If you haven't
already given him one of course).
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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