If you want to use a different partition or drawer name, you will need to replace references to Work:Temp/ below accordingly. I will use Work:Temp/ as a temporary working location. Conventions At many points in this guide, temporary files will need to be created (e.g., when unpacking archives). To use this guide, you’ll need a set of Workbench 3.1 installation floppy disk images, relevant motherboard ROM image file for use with WinUAE and a way to connect your Amiga HDD to your PC (usually a USB memory card reader). Like a real hard drive, before that Amiga can use it. Button on the right and select your Install A. Chapter 2 - Formatting the HD and Installing Workbench 3.1. For basic tasks like installing Workbench is paramount in. How to mount ADF files in your Amiga using XFS. If you’ve got no clue what you’re doing, it might be an idea to spend some time playing around with a virtual Amiga with.

I will assume the reader has some basic working knowledge of the Amiga to keep the total length of the guide down. At the end of the guide I’ve included some ideas on other software to use with faster Amiga hardware.

This guide was written for a 68020 CPU Amiga with 2MB of chip-RAM and 8MB of fast-RAM (specifically, I used ). You’ll also get more opportunities to customise the Workbench installation and not be stuck with unmaintained ‘all in one’ packs that have not been updated in years. There are several popular pre-made packs for the Workbench OS (like ), but it can be very informative to go through the process from scratch. The standard Workbench installation is very basic but there is a large selection of 3rd party software to enhance and modernise the experience. In this guide I’ll take you through the process of customising the Workbench 3.1 operating system for the Commodore Amiga. The full list and links to the utilities added are: LHA unarchiver - LZX unarchiver - Installer - MUI 3.8 - Magic Workbench - SysInfo.

This video was created on a real A500 and starts out a little grainy, please excuse the quality. There are prebuilt WB installs like Classic Workbench () available, but for curious, this tutorial illustrates the full process. I'll be installing a couple of critical extensions (LHA, LZX & Installer), MUI and Magic Workbench. In this tutorial, I'm making use of the extra power and RAM supplied by the ACA500+. AmigaOS 3.1 is fine out of the box but with a few add on utilities, it can perform and look like a more modern OS.

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