| >With an ST -- or an Archimedes -- you can turn on and with no media at all reach the desktop. Correct. It's a little more direct than the Amiga. With the Amiga, you need two extra steps: - Initialize dos.library (which is in the rom). This is done by the bootblock of the floppy you boot from. - loadwb command (starts workbench, which again resides in the ROM) >The classic Amiga is a legendarily poor experience with a single floppy drive: disk-swapping agogo. It was famous for it 35 years ago. This is not how I remember the Amiga. Due to dynamic library support, LIBS: is the library path, assigned to SYS:Libs by default, where SYS: is the filesystem you booted from. Thus, if you booted with your workbench floppy then loaded a program from another floppy, it'd keep requesting to insert workbench: back every time it needs a dynamic library. (or font, or printer driver...) The workaround, if you knew how to use your Amiga, would have been to assign the program's floppy as the first in the list for libraries, preventing this. But, generally, you'd boot with the program's disk, to use a specific program, that is easiest. |