Chapter 1: I have (on loan until its owner decides how best to dispose of it) an Amiga 1200. There are no manuals and the only software a collection of disks - mostly games - plus a couple of disks which appear to contain a minimal X-Window style operating system which enables you to explore the files and folders on the disk (but precious little else). There appears to be no built-in software in ROM other than a BIOS and boot loader because the system requires a boot disk to be inserted before anything will happen.
Chapter 2: Attached to Issue 5 of Volume 7 of QL Today was a 'QL Today Mega-CD' which contains "qdos4amiga". I've read the ReadMe files but I'm afraid the prerequisite knowledge of Amiga exceeds mine (zero). CLI, I assume, means Command Line Interface, but how do I launch one? XFS, I assume, is the Amiga's native filesystem but how do I create one - are those two disks I referred to in Chapter 1 XFS disks? The easy part is copying the required files onto a QDOS formatted disk, but surely the Amiga's BIOS ROM will not recognize this disk and boot it without first booting from an Amiga format disk? Can anyone help? I would like to see if I can get this working out of curiosity before I return the machine to its owner. One final thing: The picture the Amiga displays on my portable TV is extremely flickery, like a very low refresh rate (25Hz?) non-interlaced. regards, Ian Pine. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
