Amiga A500 help! i have problem with system....?

Question

my friend give me his old amiga 500 complete system i started playing on it on a game... after a level was completed it was loading inbetween the screen went black and the computyer looked as though it had crashed... i restarted the computer and the V1.3 workbench screen came back up i have put many different disks in and all it does is the load light flashes then it reloads the workbench disk screen... can anyone help and knows what has went wrong???

Answer 1

giantbutton you r taking me back in past when Amigh 500 brings up Workbench 1.3 logo or disk ICON it means your Amiga system disk is required or if you know the Language CLI (Command Line Interface) then what you do is create a system disk. then Open CLI window. In this window you will find the system INFO. Find the line with CLI (Command Line Interface)
SYS=1.3
if sys request = systemdisk.CMD then (DELETE THIS LINE)
sys=true (DELETE THIS LINE)
else (DELETE THIS LINE)
CLI=cls
open cls sys.1.3
close cli;

Answer 2

It sounds like the disk drive might be dirty / damaged. Maybe dirt from the disk you inserted has caused a problem.

You can floppy obtain disk cleaners. I would try one of these first.

If you still have problems, try finding a spare drive to replace the original with. I don't believe PC drives are compatible - you need a specific Amiga disk drive.

There are still sites providing Amiga spares - I suggest you look for one of them.

Answer 3

Of course your having problems with the system man, its the government for christ sake, the system will always bring you down........ Oh were talking about another system, sorry i dont know a thing about that system

Answer 4

Ring a dinosaur up - he may be able to help

But they were fantastic in their time -- but not now

Answer 5

wow

are you a collector

you might be lucky with the previous answer
but at least you were given it

try asking your MATE it was his he may know