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The Complete Amiga 1200 User Guide by Peter ... - TU Berlin

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IntroductionWelcome to the Commodore <strong>Amiga</strong> A<strong>1200</strong>, one of the most popular <strong>Amiga</strong> modelsof its time. It was affordable and easy to use. It had a wide range of software, inparticular, games which Jay Minor, the creator of the <strong>Amiga</strong>, had designed it for.<strong>The</strong> <strong>Amiga</strong> A<strong>1200</strong> is based on the Motorola 68020 14MHz Processor with 2MbRAM,a single 880K floppy drive with support for three more floppy drives and a CustomChipset that provides the Sound and Graphics.<strong>The</strong> <strong>Amiga</strong> runs the Operating System called <strong>Amiga</strong>OS which consists of theKickstart ROM which contains some essential libraries and devices needed to loadWorkbench which is the desktop:Figure 1You can a while menu bar at the top and all the disks mounted on the right hand ofthe screen. <strong>The</strong> Ram Disk is a special one which is a disk in memory basically. Moreon Workbench will be explained later.3

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