ScuzzBlog: Diaries June 2019
Entry 7th June 2019: Post 01: Amiga 1000 - Playing a modern demo
Amiga 1000 - Playing a modern demo
You may recall the other day that I tested a newly created demo on
an A1200, A600 and an A500. I kinda had thought about trying the
demo on an A1000 but chose in the end not to. However, on another
issue I was keen to establish if the A1000 could load 1.3 from the
original Kickstart disk. And so I moved an A1000 to the bench and
tried this out.
This is my Workhorse Amiga 1000 which I have hooked up to the 1060
sidecar. I have two in the main room that I use but this is my
preferred weapon of choice. I collected the Amiga 1000 from a very
sunny location in a bay window overlooking Wimbledon tennis club.
The one side of the Amiga has gone yellow where it was not shaded
by the monitor. She has worked wonderfully over the years.
I also pulled from the Amiga shelves the various Workbench manuals
plus disks for the Amiga 1000, and again marvelled at the wonderful
way the computer was explained. Well thumbed and incredibly useful
documents, each and every one.
So I fired up the 1000 and inserted the original Kickstart disk and
it refused to load 1.3. However, when I installed the 1.2 Kickstart
disk, then I was able to load 1.3. So that answered that.
I then remembered the demo disk from the other day and decided to
give it a whirl. Remarkably it worked without fault. How amazing.
I have included a very small video of part of the demo plus a video
of the Amiga 1000 noise that it makes when she first boots up. The
third video is a smaller snapshot video of the noise only. Please
note that the sound was coming from the monitor and it wasn't on
very loud. I did turn up the volume for the boot noise. I was mainly
just trying to demonstrate that the demo worked on the Amiga 1000.
So that was my day with the Amiga 1000. Kind of a short day as I came
over all weird and spent the morning cutting the grass. Bonkers or
what. By the afternoon I regained my senses and was back at the retro
station doing the do ... playing a new demo on an Amiga 1000.
V I D E O S
Demo video [ tiny snapshot ] - Amiga 1000 booting noise
Amiga 1000 just the noise
Amiga 1000 - Playing a modern demo
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