[vcf-midatlantic] Amiga help

[Sentrytv]

Andrew  thank you.

The 2000 has a hard drive controller card in it with two hard drives.(RLL Mini scribe 8438 & SCSI ST-1096)
It also has a 2 meg memory card.


After I Powered up the 2000 it asked me for workbench floppy 1.2.

It would be nice if I could get it to boot from the hard drive.

Also after opening the unit I found the battery back up leaked on the board and cleaned that up, but I haven’t turned it on yet to make sure everything else is working.
but of course I still need workbench 1.2 floppy.

Unless there’s a configuration setting that I need to change to boot from hard drive?
(Since on-board battery died)

If I go get the floppy emulator card then install it and set it up, can I make Floppies from the emulator?
In other words make hard copies of certain floppies like kickstart and workbench?

Mike Rosen


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> On Dec 1, 2020, at 11:54 AM, Andrew Diller <dillera at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Some answers below-
> 
>>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:11 PM Sentrytv <sentrytv at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I’m sending you this email because I recently acquired an Amiga A1000 and 2000.
>>>> 
>>>> Even though it came to me in boxes, in like new condition, there were no manuals, no software, nothing.
>>>> so I’m trying to find out if you have any experience with these and maybe you can point me in the right direction.
>>>> Id like to get a Kickstart 1.3 and Workbench 1.2 floppies.(This is what the computer is asking for)
>>>> 
>>>> Also maybe you know if an “A T” PC style Keyboard would work on the 2000?
>>>> I know they make an adapter for 2000 to 1000 keyboard input.
>>>> But alas I do not have a 2000 keyboard.
> 
> All Amiga Keyboards are Amiga only. The 2000 and 3000 share keyboards. The 1000 and the 4000 are their own kind. None are compatible with AT keyboards. Same with mice.
> 
> I would invest in one of the Amiga to USB converts for Keyboard and mouse available on ebay, as the A2000 keyboards are expensive and may have issues due to age.
> 
> I would also pick up a Gotek floppy emulator for the A2000, as the drives are not compatible with anything and you need a working Amiga to make disks. With a Gotek you can load ADF (disk files) onto USB sticks and boot those as emulated floppies.
> 
> You can find versions of Workbench in ADF format floating around. I have actual floppies but I just recently restored my A2000 and found a few of the floppies are bad. I ended up installing via Gotek onto a SCSI2SD adapter used as the hardrive.
> 
> 
> Also the Amiga Explorer was something I used- it allows you to push files from a PC via Serial port onto the Amiga (everything can't be turned into a ADF disk file...)
> 
> https://www.amigaforever.com/ae/
> 
> https://www.everythingamiga.com/2017/05/amiga-explorer-pc-to-amiga-data-transfer-without-a-gotek-or-compact-flash.html
> 
> 
> You'll also need/want a hardrive for the A2000, which means a Hardrive card/scsi controller:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Commodore-Amiga-A2091-SCSI-Hard-Drive-Controller-2MB-RAM-Card-2000-2091/293678514872
> 
> If you don't already have one in there. Using an Amiga with just floppies is not fun.
> 
> -andy
> 
>