Amiga Emulator FAQ

Installing Workbench 3.x, step by step instructions.

1. Load Winuae, on Quickstart tab select A1200 or A4000 for the Model and and then click on the Hard disk tab.

2. Select Add Hardfile and create a new Hardfile. Enter the size in megabytes, for example, 50 for 50MB and click Create.

3. Select a location on your hard disk, and enter a filename and click Save. Click OK when done.

4. Click on Floppy drives, click on ... next to DF0: and select the Install31 disk. Click Start. If your install disk is not bootable you can boot from your
Workbench disk instead.

5. You should now have Workbench loaded with icons for Ram Disk, Install3.1 and a extra disk called DH0:NDOS (Disk Hard 0: Non-DOS).
If it has problems with DH0:, click Cancel, type list ram:, assign env: ram:, loadwb and then endcli to close the AmigaDOS screeen. Adding a failat 20 command in the startup-sequence can fix this issue.

6. Select the DH0:NDOS icon and goto the menu and select Icons, Format Disk... Enter a Volume name and tick Fast File System, so it uses the
best file system for hard disks. Click Quick Format as a full format is not required here.

• Format - DH0
• Current Information: Device 'DH0' 50M capacity
• New Volume Name: WB3
• Put Trashcan: Y
• Fast File System: Y
• International Mode: N
• Directory Cache: N
• Format, Quick Format or Cancel
  

7. Click Format for continue formatting.

• OK to format disk in device DH0?
• WARNING!
• All data will be lost!
• 50M capacity
• Format or Cancel

8. Click Fomat again on the second Warning message.

• WARNING!
• Do you really wish to format the disk in device DH0 (50M capacity)
  and lose all its data?
• Format or Cancel

9. You should now have a hard disk called WB3 on the Workbench. You are ready to install Workbench.

10. Double click on Install3.1 icon and double click on Install and select the script to use in your language (in this case English).

• Install
• Dansk, English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Italiano

11.If the install script finds the hard disk, select Proceed to continue installation. If it asks for ENV:, select Workbench, Execute Command and type assign env: ram: to assign it to the ram disk.

• Install (0% done)
• This program lets you install Release 3 of the Amiga Operating System on a hard drive. It can be used to upgrade an older release,
  to install from scratch, or control which languages are available on a hard disk drive with Release 3 already installed.
• Proceed or Abort Install

12. Select Install Release 3 to begin installation.

• Install (0% done)
• Select "Install Release 3" to do a complete installation of Release 3 or select "Update Languages" to modify which languages
  are available on a hard drive with Release 3 already installed.
• Install Release 3, Update Languages, Help or Abort Install

13. Select the installation mode: Novice, Intermediate or Expert user (we will use Novice). Select Proceed with Install.

• Welcome to the Workbench 3.0 installation utility.
• Please indicate how the installation should proceed (based upon your knowledge of the Amiga).
• Novice User - All Actions Automatic
• Intermediate User - Limited Manual Control
• Expert User - Must confirm all actions
• Proceed with Install or Abort Install, About, or Help

14. Select a language to use from the list given to install (by default english is selected). Click Proceed.

• Dansk, Deutsch, English, Espanol, Francais
• Italiano, Nederlands, Norsk, Portugues, Svenska
• Proceed, Abort Install or Help

15. Select which printers to install. Here we have selected Epson, HP and PostScript printers. Click Proceed. Winuae is designed to
work with PostScript if selected in the Game and I/O Ports tab and GhostScript is installed.

• Calcomp Printers, Canon BJ10, CBM MPS1000, Diablo 630, Epson Printers, Howtek PixelMaster
• HP Printers, NEC Pinwriter, Okimate Printers, Postscript, Seiko Printers, Sharp JX-730
• Tektronix Printers, Toshiba Printers, Xerox 4020
• Proceed, Abort Install or Help

16. Select which keymaps, for the keyboard layout, to install. Click Proceed.

• American, British, Canadien Francais, Dansk, Deutsch, Dvorak, Espanol
• Francais, Italiano, Norsk, Portugues, Schweiz, Suisse, Svenskt
• Proceed, Abort Install or Help

17. Press F12 and click on Floppy Drives and insert your Workbench3.1 disk. Click Proceed.

• Please insert the "Amiga Workbench" disk Version 3.1 in any floppy drive.
• Proceed, Abort Install or Help
  

18. Press F12 and click on Floppy Drives and insert your Extras3.1 disk. Click Proceed.

• Please insert the "Amiga Extras" disk Version 3.1 in any floppy drive.
• Proceed, Abort Install or Help

19. Press F12 and click on Floppy Drives and insert your Locale disk. Click Proceed.

• Please insert the "Amiga Locale" disk Version 3.1 in any floppy drive.
• Proceed, Abort Install or Help

20. Press F12 and click on Floppy Drives and insert your Fonts disk. Click Proceed.

• Please insert the "Amiga Fonts" disk Version 3.1 in any floppy drive.
• Proceed, Abort Install or Help

21. Press F12 and click on Floppy Drives and insert your Storage3.1 disk. Click Proceed.

• Please insert the "Amiga Storage" disk Version 3.1 in any floppy drive.
• Proceed, Abort Install or Help

22. Installation is complete. Click Proceed.

• The installation of Release 3 is now complete.
• To enable Release 3, you must reboot your Amiga.
• Remove the "Amiga Install" disk from the floppy drive, and select "Proceed"
  gadget to reboot your Amiga.
• Proceed or Abort Install

23. Press F12, eject any disks in Floppy Drives and select Reset. Your Workbench 3.1 installation is ready to use! If you get an AmigaDOS screen
run loadwb to load workbench and copy the startup-sequence file from your workbench disk in to the S (script) folder.

24. I suggest you copy the Installer program from the Install disk (see root of the Install3.1 disk) into the C (command) folder on your new Workbench
disk as it is required for some application installations. It is a hidden file, so you need to use Window, Show, All Files menu. There are some newer versions on Aminet and on more recent versions of AmigaOS.

Expanding Workbench 3.0 or 3.1

25. 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) Classact - Make use of BOOPSI gadget classes like Reaction.
f) IXEmul - Unix emulation libraries
g) UnZIP - Extract Zip files.
h) Magic User Interface (MUI) - Improved interface over Intuition.
i) MUI Unarc - MUI based unarchive tool.
k) ACE Basic - Better version of Basic than Amiga Basic.
l) AmiBlitz - Updated Blitz Basic.
m) ReqTools - Replacement requester library.
n) VBCC - C compiler
o) Web Browser: NetSurf , OWB, IBrowse.

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