Thanks for that. Last I could remeber, I misplaced my Kickstart disk and I couldn't get Workbench to load... I might just dig it up and try again some time soon.
@svommams566 I trimmed the boot down by editing s/Startup-Sequence to not spawn another shell, only to give some more cache memory for the internal and external disk drives, and to use the extended memory first (slowmemlast). Also, it did not close the CLI. I had Workbench down to wb, should I need it. Never did much.
Not on an A500, usually it was only the A1000 and A3000 that required a kickstart disk, the other models all had kickstart in a normal ROM chip or chips.
lol i had no idea what most of that meant back when i was 7. Memories though. Best games ever for me were Parasol Stars, Police Quest 1: Persuit Of The Death Angel and Trivial Persuit. :D
Notice how many disk seeks it starts doing at the point where it runs the two shells in parallel. It probably slowed down the entire boot by 30% or so. At least with later versions, that didn't happen.
Haha, that was recorded with WinUAE (Windows UAE Amiga emulator), with the disk drive sounds turned on) because otherwise you would think nothing is happening because you can't see the disk activity light. Yeah, such a shame the Amiga OS didn't prevail over Windows...
Haha, that was recorded with WinUAE with the disk drive noises turned on, so people could hear that it was doing something, seeing as you cant see the disk activity light on DF0: thats why it seems noisy. And I agree, Id much rather be using Workbench then Windows, MacOS, or Linux, but oh well.
Lovely disk sound! really brings back memories!
This video just took me back 22 years!! .. Arrgh The good ol Amiga 500 :))
Yay, I love the floppy drive sounds :D
Was music in my ears back in 1990 ;)
I had a few Amigas.... I fell in love with the sleepy pointer and chose it over a PC... changed my life!
Thanks for that. Last I could remeber, I misplaced my Kickstart disk and I couldn't get Workbench to load... I might just dig it up and try again some time soon.
@svommams566 I trimmed the boot down by editing s/Startup-Sequence to not spawn another shell, only to give some more cache memory for the internal and external disk drives, and to use the extended memory first (slowmemlast).
Also, it did not close the CLI. I had Workbench down to wb, should I need it. Never did much.
Not on an A500, usually it was only the A1000 and A3000 that required a kickstart disk, the other models all had kickstart in a normal ROM chip or chips.
lol i had no idea what most of that meant back when i was 7. Memories though. Best games ever for me were Parasol Stars, Police Quest 1: Persuit Of The Death Angel and Trivial Persuit. :D
I still have my amiga with tons of games, unfortunately don't have my boot disks anymore.
No worries! :)
Notice how many disk seeks it starts doing at the point where it runs the two shells in parallel. It probably slowed down the entire boot by 30% or so. At least with later versions, that didn't happen.
Haha, that was recorded with WinUAE (Windows UAE Amiga emulator), with the disk drive sounds turned on) because otherwise you would think nothing is happening because you can't see the disk activity light. Yeah, such a shame the Amiga OS didn't prevail over Windows...
I haven't used mine in ages. Do you need to use the kickstart disk to get Workbench to work?
Haha, that was recorded with WinUAE with the disk drive noises turned on, so people could hear that it was doing something, seeing as you cant see the disk activity light on DF0: thats why it seems noisy.
And I agree, Id much rather be using Workbench then Windows, MacOS, or Linux, but oh well.