> By the way, you can do some things in Kickstart. When you switch the > machine on or reset it with Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga hold down both mouse > buttons. You will now be brought into a settings menu where you can find > s small amount of info about the machine and change settings (for that > boot only) for the processor cache, video chip mode (old mode, new mode) > and video format (PAL or NTSC.. and as the clock is based upon the frame > rate, the machine in NTSC mode will run 1/5th faster than in PAL mode).
Thanks for that. Not sure when the next opportunity to tinker will be but I'll look at those Kickstart options. > Mauny Amiga 1200s had an internal hard disk, yours doesn't seem to. Oh > well, this means that you'll be swapping floppies a great deal and I'm > not sure that QDOS4Amiga will actually fit on one and be usable. Hmmm. Might be more trouble that it's worth then. I haven't looked inside the case because the machine isn't mine, but if the connectors for the hard disk are provided inside, what type of disk would work - I have a spare 6Gb ATA one? Ian. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Usher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 3:51 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QDOS4Amiga > Ian L. Pine wrote: > > 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. > > The Amiga has a bootloader in ROM (Kickstart) which is then used to load > the actual operating system (AmigaDOS + Workbench). The "minimal > X-Window style operating system" is just that. You will need this to be > running before you can run any other programs, including the Amiga QL > emulator. > > Mauny Amiga 1200s had an internal hard disk, yours doesn't seem to. Oh > well, this means that you'll be swapping floppies a great deal and I'm > not sure that QDOS4Amiga will actually fit on one and be usable. > > By the way, you can do some things in Kickstart. When you switch the > machine on or reset it with Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga hold down both mouse > buttons. You will now be brought into a settings menu where you can find > s small amount of info about the machine and change settings (for that > boot only) for the processor cache, video chip mode (old mode, new mode) > and video format (PAL or NTSC.. and as the clock is based upon the frame > rate, the machine in NTSC mode will run 1/5th faster than in PAL mode). > > Did you know... that most of AmigaDOS version 1 was written on Sinclair > QLs using the Metacomco BCPL compiler by Metacomco. AmigaDOS is based > upon Tripos, a little known operating system written in Cambridge. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
