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- From: cquirke@iafrica.com (Chris Quirke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: New owner A500 queries, FAQ request?
- Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 12:31:32 GMT
- Organization: Internet Africa
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- I have a client who just bought an A500, no manuals, several disks -
- some of which have viruses. I haven't seen an Amiga for many years,
- can't remember the first thing about them!
-
- As I don't read the amiga groups, I'd appreciate e-mail on this, and
- if your groups are as crowded as win95.misc is, perhaps less follow-up
- posts would suit you as well.
-
- * N.O.M.A.D. finds viruses after booting with several disks, incl.
- some which give errors on boot. False alarm? Worry?
-
- * Can I download Amiga software from my PC, and write disks
- that the client's A500 can read?
-
- * Are there Amiga emulators for the PC?
-
- * How do you list disk contents from AmigaDOS boot window?
-
- * Can one kludge up a +512k RAM upgrade board for the A500,
- using PC SIMMs or RAM chips? This one's only got 512k,
- and many of his disk titles need 1M RAM.
-
- * How does one add a hard drive? MFM, IDE or SCSI? Cable
- pinouts, getting the system to "see" it, etc.? Can you boot off
- a hard drive so added? What's the equivalent of CMOS disk
- type settings, or can one only use *some* drives?
-
- * Is there a FAQ on the AmigaDOS commands, Amiga BASIC etc.?
- Or covering the rest of these queries?
-
- Strange mixture of brill sound, neat graphics (all working in only
- 512k RAM!) and slow diskette dependency... love to hard drive it
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