Stupid Amiga Tricks

Sellam, The A1000 had that kickstart image on flyppy because it was rushed to market, and the BIOS core wasn't compeletely finished. IT was decided to do this, and send floppy disks with the updates as they became available. The A1000 only worked with the Kickstart/Workbench 1.x until the ROM chips were made standard with the later machines. Some hackers have put in a 512k WOM and loaded in a 2.04 image off of floppy, or just made a board with a socket and a ROM. The phono connector should have been in color on the A1000, only it and the AGA Amigas had composite video ouput with NTSC color encoding. The A500/2000/3000 had a jack but only in monochrome, no color information at all. Another great bugaboo was the serial and parallel ports on the A1000 were opposite sex to the PC standard. This was fixed on later models. The Amiga was just enough different to be a pain in the butt to the normal PC thinking technician, and that helped Commodore loose the market. Lack of vendor support was another burr in the saddle. AT first ahead of the technology curve, they slipped behind in the 90's and management milked Commodore of its operationg capital. But once you learn some of the quirks and traits of the Amiga OS, you find a great system for the learning challenged. There is a reason they called the kernal Intuition. Gary Hildebrand ST. Joseph, MO