Amiga Emulator FAQ

Installing Workbench 1.3, step by step instructions.

1. Load WinUAE, on Quickstart tab select A500 for the Model and then click on the Hard drives tab.

2. Select Add Directory. Use DH0 for device name, enter a volume name and an empty folder to use.
Tick the box for 'Add PC drives at startup' so that you can copy other files from your PC drives.

3. Select Floppy drives and insert Workbench 1.3 disk into drive Df0: and select Start.

4. You should now have a Workbench icon on your Workbench screen ready to use.

5. Open Workbench1.3D disk icon and double click on the Shell icon. To use the new GB2 keyboard map file, copy the gb2 file from any available PC drive to the devs/keymaps folders on your Workbench disk and type setmap gb2. The GB2 keymap file corrects some of the keys on Windows keyboards. Use the date command to set the correct date and time.

6. Now you can copy the contents of the Workbench disk to your new HD directory. In the Shell, use the command:
copy df0: to dh0: all.

7. Wait until the copy finishes. Press F12 and insert the Extras disk, then copy the contents of that disk
to the hard disk. In the Shell, use the command: copy df1: to dh0: all.

8. When the copy finishes, type endcli to exit the shell.

9. Press F12, eject any floppy disks and click Reset. Workbench should load ok.

10. You can tidy up the icons by selecting Windows, Select Contents and Windows, Cleanup
and finally, Icons, Snapshot.You can set the keymap by editing the s:startup-sequence file
and adding the line setmap gb2.

Expanding Workbench 1.3

11. To make full use of Workbench you need some software to run on it besides the supplied extras and would
recommend the following software:

a) LHA - archiver/unarchiver - Access to software archived with LHA (Self-extracting)
b) XPK Packer/unpacker - Tools to decrunch XPK archives.
c) HippoPlayer - Music and module player.
d) Powerpacker - Library for Powerpacker tools.
e) PPMore - Powerpacker More text viewer, better than More tool with WB.
f) AmigaGuide - Read Guide files (see Multiview on later OS').
g) TinyView - IFF ILBM Picture viewer. NB: vilbm is better (see AF cover discs)
h) UnZIP - Extract Zip files.
i) Gadtools v34 - Gadtools library equivalent for WB 1.3.
j) Gadget library - A Gadtools equivalent library.
k) ARP library - Amiga Replacement Project, new commands and library.

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