I think Simon Goodwin and Mark Swift were the two most closely associated with the AmigaQDOS system - is either of them on this list? -- Dilwyn Jones
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian L. Pine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 9:51 PM Subject: [Ql-Users] QDOS4Amiga > 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.22/923 - Release Date: > 27/07/2007 18:01 > > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
