Question for the Amiga experts:
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Question for the Amiga experts:
I had an A500 as a kid, 1 meg of ram, one floppy drive, Kickstart 1.3. I would have loved to have a harddisk, but that was impossible for me to get.
So I'm interested in exploring, if I had gotten a harddrive for this machine back in the 90s, what would I have been able to do with it? Are there any good (contemporary) resources I could check out?
Most harddrive tutorials talk about modern things like WHD load, but I'm not interested in this, I want to know what the original experience back then would have been like. Any suggestions?
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Question for the Amiga experts:
I had an A500 as a kid, 1 meg of ram, one floppy drive, Kickstart 1.3. I would have loved to have a harddisk, but that was impossible for me to get.
So I'm interested in exploring, if I had gotten a harddrive for this machine back in the 90s, what would I have been able to do with it? Are there any good (contemporary) resources I could check out?
Most harddrive tutorials talk about modern things like WHD load, but I'm not interested in this, I want to know what the original experience back then would have been like. Any suggestions?
@82mhz I had a 52Mb HD attached to my A500 along with 2Mb extra RAM.
Workbench got a lot faster, and using the machine for development, art, writing etc. became a lot faster and easier (viable, even) without floppy size constraints and constant swapping. It was handy too having lots of programs installed without having to dig out the correct disk.
Also, some games could be installed on HD prior to WHDLoad/JST too!
If you were just gaming, a HD probably didn’t do much for you I suppose.
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Question for the Amiga experts:
I had an A500 as a kid, 1 meg of ram, one floppy drive, Kickstart 1.3. I would have loved to have a harddisk, but that was impossible for me to get.
So I'm interested in exploring, if I had gotten a harddrive for this machine back in the 90s, what would I have been able to do with it? Are there any good (contemporary) resources I could check out?
Most harddrive tutorials talk about modern things like WHD load, but I'm not interested in this, I want to know what the original experience back then would have been like. Any suggestions?
@82mhz I had an A1200 with a 700-ish megabyte hard drive.
A lot of games could be installed with WHDLoad (or its contemporaries which eventually joined the project) even back then. Monkey Island 2 with its dozen or so disks? Install it and never look back.
Downloading things from Aminet with my 14.4kbaud (later 28.8k then 56k) modem was also a lot of fun.
I had a directory of really terrible AMOS Pro programs I wrote for fun.
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@82mhz I had an A1200 with a 700-ish megabyte hard drive.
A lot of games could be installed with WHDLoad (or its contemporaries which eventually joined the project) even back then. Monkey Island 2 with its dozen or so disks? Install it and never look back.
Downloading things from Aminet with my 14.4kbaud (later 28.8k then 56k) modem was also a lot of fun.
I had a directory of really terrible AMOS Pro programs I wrote for fun.
@82mhz Finally, a lot of magazine coverdisks (and later cover CDs) could simply have their files copied to the hard disc. No need to play hunt-the-disk when it's all installed already
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@82mhz Finally, a lot of magazine coverdisks (and later cover CDs) could simply have their files copied to the hard disc. No need to play hunt-the-disk when it's all installed already
@82mhz I do also need to correct you on one point - WHDLoad is a product of the 1990s, and some bespoke installers predated it. It's not modern.
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Question for the Amiga experts:
I had an A500 as a kid, 1 meg of ram, one floppy drive, Kickstart 1.3. I would have loved to have a harddisk, but that was impossible for me to get.
So I'm interested in exploring, if I had gotten a harddrive for this machine back in the 90s, what would I have been able to do with it? Are there any good (contemporary) resources I could check out?
Most harddrive tutorials talk about modern things like WHD load, but I'm not interested in this, I want to know what the original experience back then would have been like. Any suggestions?
@82mhz I had the A500, didn't upgrade it much. Kind of liked it as it was with 1 Meg RAM. Great for the old games. But we also got an A1200, that had 8 Meg RAM with a 100 MB hard drive plus an accelerator. That got used A LOT: DPaint, a CAD package I forget the name, OctaMED, Wordworth Word processor, plus HD installed games. It was fast, everything booted instantly. All my college work was written on that machine, it even went on the Internet. I still have it along with A500, A4000 and CD32!
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