New to Amigas- Amiga 1000 disks?

[generic486]

Hello everyone,

I'm mostly a PC guy but I was lucky in a lot to get a boxed Amiga 1000 with RAM. This is my first time with an Amiga so I know practically nothing but I'm just wondering where or how to get boot disks for this thing?
I turn it on and it prompts me for Kickstart and Workbench disks, the only things I haven't got. I have the boxes for the disks but not the disks them selves :neutral:

 

[Scali]

The Amiga 1000 is rather special, as its Kickstart is on a floppy as well, where newer models have it in ROM.
The Kickstart itself doesn't do very much, it is more or less like a 'BIOS': it only contains some basic libraries, and some code to boot the system.

Note that the version of Kickstart should match with the version of Workbench you're using. I believe version 1.3 is the best choice for Amiga 1000.
Officially this software is still under copyright, so you can only find floppy images in the somewhat 'shadier' places.
In your case you also have a bootstrapping problem: you'll need a way to write the floppy images to physical disks, which a regular PC is not capable of.
So you'll either need a special floppy drive/controller for PC, or you need someone with an Amiga that is up and running, to write the floppy image to a real floppy.

Once you've gotten hold of some bootable floppies, you can set up your Amiga 1000 to run a terminal client and transfer software via nulmodem. Then you can start transferring images to floppy on your own machine.

 

[SkydivinGirl]

You have a few options to get your A1000 up and running.

1. Ask someone to send you copies or originals of the disks you need.

2. Get a Kickstart ROM adapter so you can burn your own kickstart ROM to put inside the A1000. I'd do this no matter what so you don't need to use a Kickstart disk every time you start the system. I recently upgraded mine to a dual Kickstart adapter so I have a single adapter available for sale if you end up looking for one.

3. Get an inexpensive Gotek Floppy Emulator and modify it to work with the Amiga or one of the HxC floppy emulators. I would suggest you get this either way so you can easily get data to and from the A1000. Some of these would require modification of the computer to mount internally. Instead of cutting up the A1000, I'd suggest either getting an HxC Slim to mount internally without actually modifying the case or get an external floppy drive to use the HxC.

I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

Heather

 

[RobertB]

Get a Kickstart ROM adapter so you can burn your own kickstart ROM to put inside the A1000. I'd do this no matter what so you don't need to use a Kickstart disk every time you start the system. I recently upgraded mine to a dual Kickstart adapter so I have a single adapter available for sale if you end up looking for one.

From where did you get the dual Kickstart adapter? And from where did you get the single Kickstart ROM adapter?

FCUG celebrating 33 years,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
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[SkydivinGirl]

The single ROM adapter is made by DJBase. He hasn't been making them for quite some time but you can search for DJBase Kickstart to get more information. The one I have for sale has never been used and I bought it from another member of AmiBay.

The dual ROM adapter is made by Tuxbar81 on AmiBay. He's currently sold out by you can get on the list to let him know you are interested. He'll make another run if he gets enough interest. :thumbsup:

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.ph...start-Switcher-for-Amiga-1000-PERFECT-WORKING

Heather