Complete_Amiga_1200_User_Guide_The_2006_Hutchinson_Peter.pdf

The Complete Amiga 1200 User Guide

Revised: 11/12/2006

Contents

Introduction

Page 3

Setting up the Amiga for First Time

Page 4

Guide to Workbench 3.0

Page 6

Menus

Page 6

Mouse

Page 8

Programs

Page 9

Preferences

Page 13

Beyond Workbench 3.0

Page 20

Adding more Memory to the A1200

Page 20

Upgrading the Processor

Page 21

Upgrading Expansion on the A1200

Page 23

Upgrading the Kickstart and Workbench

The Motherboard in details

Page 25

Backward Compatibility

Page 26

Adding a Hard Disk to A1200

Page 27

Installing Workbench onto a Hard Disk

Page 29

Introduction

Welcome to the Commodore Amiga A1200, one of the most popular Amiga models

of its time. It was affordable and easy to use. It had a wide range of software, in

particular, games which Jay Minor, the creator of the Amiga, had designed it for.

The Amiga A1200 is based on the Motorola 68020 14MHz Processor with 2MbRAM,

a single 880K floppy drive with support for three more floppy drives, a Custom

Chipset that provides the Sound and Graphics.

The Amiga runs the Operating System called AmigaOS which consists of the

Kickstart ROM which contains some essential libraries and devices needed to load

Workbench which is the desktop:

Figure 1

You can a while menu bar at the top and all the disks mounted on the right hand of

the screen. The Ram Disk is a special one which is a disk in memory basically. More

on Workbench will be explained later.

Setting up the Amiga for First Time

Before setting up the Amiga make sure you have the following items ready:

Amiga A1200

Monitor or TV Set

Mouse

Power Supply

Joystick (optional)

Speakers (optional)

External Disk drives (optional)

Withe Amiga facing you, first plug the square end of the Power Supply cable to the

Power socket on the top left hand at the back of the Amiga. Plug the other end into a

power socket but DO NOT switch on yet.

If you have a monitor, plug the monitor cable into the Video socket, if you have a TV

Set then plug it into the RF or Composite socket and also plug the power cable into a

power socket.

Next plug the Mouse into Port 1 of the D shaped sockets on the right-hand side at the

back. Plug any Joystick onto Port 2 next to it.

The stereo speakers can be plugged into the Left and Right speaker sockets in the

middle at the back. The speakers can be either stand-alone ones or part of the

monitor so if necessary, plug the other ends into the Left/Right sockets on the

monitor. Plug in to power supply as necessary.

Finally if you have any external floppy disk drives plug them in to the External Drive

socket on the back of the Amiga. Further drives can be added to other drives. If you

have an external hard disk, remove the cover from the Expansion port on the left-

hand side of the Amiga and slot in the drive.

Now switch on the power and press the power switch located on the Power Supply

for the Amiga and switch on the monitor.

If you do not have disks inserted you will see the Insert Disk screen below:

Figure 2

You can then insert either a Workbench disk or any other bootable disk such as a

game into the floppy drive on the right-hand side of the Amiga (called DF0: - Disk

Floppy Zero).

Insert your Original Workbench disk and wait for the workbench screen to appear.

Before continuing, I recommend that you make one or more copies of your original

Workbench disks to use rather than the Original as that can become damaged over

time and you may need to make other copies later.

To make a copy, get hold of a blank 880K double-density disk ready, then move the

white arrow (called a pointer) with the mouse over the Workbench 3.0 disk and click

the left mouse button once (this will select the disk), then move the pointer to the top

left of the screen and click and HOLD the right-hand mouse button and a menu

appear, make sure the Icons menu is selected, move the mouse down the menu and

select Copy

Figure 3

It will say ‘Put the SOURCE disk (FROM disk) in drive DF0:’, remove the disk from

the floppy drive, and make sure it is your original Workbench disk, at the top there is

a hole, make sure it is covered with the black tab to protect the disk during this

operation. Reinsert the disk, and with the left mouse button click once on Continue.

Once the read operation is complete, it will ask you to insert the DESTINATION (TO

disk) in drive DF0:. Press the eject button to remove your original Workbench disk,

and insert your Blank disk. Click on Continue to write the information to your new

disk.

You may need to repeat the disk swap a couple of times more until the operation is

completed. Now you will have a disk called ‘copy of Workbench’, you can rename this

by selecting the disk, then select Rename from the Workbench menu and change it

to just ‘Workbench’. You should put your original disk somewhere safe and then use

your copy of Workbench from now on. Reboot with your new Workbench disk in DF0.

Guide to Workbench 3.0

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