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This tutorial will help you to install ClassicWB in FS-UAE. Before you start, you should ensure you have FS-UAE Launcher and FS-UAE installed already, and that you have the required kickstart for Amiga 1200 and 4000. You also need a disk image (ADF) of a Workbench 3.0 or Workbench 3.1 disk.

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Ami­ga Rom Col­lec­tion rudzamigaromcollection.7z Ver­sion: 1.0. Workbench 1.0 was released for the first time in October 1985. 5 The 1.x series of Workbench defaults to a distinctive blue and orange color scheme, designed to give high contrast on even the worst of television screens (the colors can be changed by the user). Version 1.1 consists mostly of bug fixes and, like version 1.0, was distributed only for the Amiga 1000. This is the best Workbench version to expand models like the Amiga 600 to boot from hard disk or CompactFlash without needing to upgrade the ROM to the 3.x series. Workbench 1.3 and 2.1 can boot on systems up to a 3.1 ROM ('Kickstart'), except on an Amiga 4000T model.

Downloading and Extracting ClassicWB

It isn’t entirely obvious, but there is a download link there – honestly!

First, you need to download ClassicWB. ClassicWB comes in different flavours depending on what Amiga hardware capabilities you’ve got. There is also a special version for UAE Amiga emulators, and that’s the one we’re going to use. So head over to the download page and click on the “UAE” link to download ClassicWB_UAE_vXX.zip. At the time of writing, this is ClassicWB_UAE_v28.zip. I’ll refer to it as ClassicWB_UAE_vXX.zip throughout the tutorial.

Now you need to decide where you want to have ClassicWB stored. I suggest the following location: Documents/FS-UAE/Hard Drives/ClassicWB, but you can put it anywhere you like. The rest of the tutorial will assume this location.

  1. Create an empty folder Documents/FS-UAE/Hard Drives/ClassicWB
  2. Create an empty folder Documents/FS-UAE/Hard Drives/ClassicWB/PC
  3. Open ClassicWB_UAE_vXX.zip, browse into ClassicWB_UAE_vXX and then Hard Disk. Extract the Software folder and the two .hdf files to Documents/FS-UAE/Hard Drives/ClassicWB.

Initial Setup

All three hard drives have been added to the hard drive tab.

  1. Click the “New Configuration” button in the main tab to ensure you are starting with a blank slate.
  2. Change Amiga model to Amiga 1200.
  3. Go to the hard drives tab, and click on the file button for the first hard drive and select the System_P96.hdf file you just extracted.
  4. Click on the folder button for the second hard drive and select the Documents/FS-UAE/Hard Drives/ClassicWB/Software folder.
  5. Click on the folder button for the third hard drive and select Documents/FS-UAE/Hard Drives/ClassicWB/PC folder.

You also need to provide one or more Workbench disks, because ClassicWB needs to copy some files off this/these. You have three options here:

  • Use a Workbench 3.0 disk – You’ll then end up with a WB 3.0 ClassicWB install.
  • Use a Workbench 3.1 disk – You’ll then end up with a WB 3.0 ClassicWB install with some WB 3.1 files.
  • Use the full set of Workbench 3.1 install disks – You’ll then end up with a WB 3.1 ClassicWB install.

Here I have added all six 3.1 disks from Amiga Forever to the floppy swap list. Note that no disk is inserted into any drive.

Go for the last option if you have all six Workbench 3.1 disks. You now go to the floppy tab, and use the plus button to add floppy disk images to the swap list – because the disk(s) must not be inserted in a floppy drive during boot. So either:

  1. Select your Workbench 3.0 or Workbench 3.1 disk (note: you need the “Workbench” disk, not the “Install” disk).
  2. Multiselect all your 6 Workbench 3.1 disks.

Install ClassicWB

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ClassicWB installer requesting a workbench disk to be inserted into the first floppy drive.

  1. When asked to insert disk, open the FS-UAE menu, navigate down to the first floppy drive with your arrow keys and press return.
  2. Either select your single Workbench disk – or, if you’re using the full Workbench 3.1 set – insert disk 2 of 6. Press return to insert the disk.
  3. If you chose a Workbench 3.1 disk, you’ll be asked if you want to upgrade to Workbench 3.1. Type y and return if you have all six disks, otherwise, type n and return.

You also need to press return when back in the AmigaDOS prompt to continue with the installation. If you press return too quickly, a requester will appear, but just click on the Retry button if this happens.

If you are asked for disks by name and cannot see the names in FS-UAE, the disks are Extras (3 of 6), Fonts (6 of 6), Install (1 of 6), Locale (5 of 6) and Storage (4 of 6).

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After the installer is done copying files, you’ll be asked whether you want to enable or disable OldIcons. This is just a matter of preference so you can answer any of them.

When the message “Please remove the Workbench disk and reboot” appears, simply quit FS-UAE.

Install ClassicWB/ADVSP (Optional)

This step is optional. The previous step configured a system drive with support for Picasso 96. This step will install an alternative system drive which runs on more “classic hardware”.

Go to the hard drives tab, and click on the file button for the first hard drive. Choose System_ADVSP.hdf (replaces System_P96.hdf). Start FS-UAE and you’ll be greeted with the same installation program as you saw in the first boot. You go through the installer, and do exactly the same things as you did during first boot.

After the installer is done copying files, you’ll be asked a couple of questions. This is a matter of preference, so you can choose anything. Here are some suggestions:

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  • Choose Theme: Retro
  • Copper Background: Disable

The configuration is now saved, and is added to the configurations list to the right.

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Again, when the message “Please remove the Workbench disk and reboot” appears, simply quit FS-UAE. We’ll now save this “classic configuration” as “ClassicWB (Amiga 1200)”:

  • Go to the floppies tab, and use the clear button to remove the floppies from the floppy list.
  • Go to the main tab, change config name to “ClassicWB (Amiga 1200)” and click the save button.

Final Setup

We’re now done, and will set up hardware for an expanded Amiga 4000 and save the config as “ClassicWB (Amiga 4000)”:

  1. Go to the floppies tab, and use the clear button to remove the floppies from the floppy list (unless you already did it and the floppy list is now empty).
  2. Go to the main tab, change config name to “ClassicWB (Amiga 1200)” and click the save button.
  3. Change the primary hard drive back to System_P96.hdf.
  4. Change Amiga model to Amiga 4000 (68040).
  5. Go to the memory options tab, check Zorro III RAM, and choose 64 MB (or more if you like).
  6. Go to the expansions tab and choose graphics card UAEGFX and enable UAE bsdsocket.library.
  7. Go back to the main tab, change config name to “ClassicWB (Amiga 4000)” and click the save configuration button.

Click Start to start FS-UAE and boot into ClassicWB! Congratulations 🙂

(You’ll get a different desktop environment depending on whether you boot the Amiga 1200 config or the Amiga 4000 one).

Keymaps, locale and regional settings (Optional)

The following section is copied verbatim from the ClassicWB installation instructions:

ClassicWB defaults to the Great Britain locale and keymap settings. Obviously this is no good if you live elsewhere and your time zone and keyboard layout differs.

In order to change these settings, do the following:

  1. Move the required keymap from the “Storage/Keymaps” to “Devs/Keymaps” drawer.
  2. Place the “gb” keymap back into the “Storage/Keymaps” drawer, or it will take up memory.
  3. Reboot the Amiga and open up the “Prefs/Input” requester.
  4. Select your corresponding keymap and save the setting.
  5. Open up the “Prefs/Locale” requester and select your region, again saving the setting.

Note that those with an American keyboard layout are able to simply remove the “gb” keymap, placing it back into the “Storage/Keymaps” drawer, leaving the “Devs/Keymaps” drawer empty. The required keymap is built into the ROM as its default setting, so to finish just save the “Prefs/Input” with “American” selected.

Enable JIT (Optional)

You can enable the JIT compiler to make the emulated system several times faster.

DISCUSSION

Overview

The Classic Support editions of Workbench 1.3 and 2.1 are made available to provide continued support to systems where the use of a newer version is not possible or desirable (e.g. for historical reasons, or for application compatibility).

System Requirements

Workbench 1.3 (two floppy disks) works on systems with a 1.2 or newer ROM ('Kickstart'). Even the oldest Amiga 500 and 2000 systems have at least a 1.2 ROM. This is the last series to support 256-KB ROM models like the Amiga 1000, which can be booted from a Kickstart 1.2 or 1.3 floppy disk.

Workbench 2.1 (five floppy disks, or a hard disk image) works on systems with a 2.04 or newer ROM. A 2.05 or newer ROM is required for IDE and PC Card (PCMCIA) support. This is the best Workbench version to expand models like the Amiga 600 to boot from hard disk or CompactFlash without needing to upgrade the ROM to the 3.x series.

Workbench 1.3 and 2.1 can boot on systems up to a 3.1 ROM ('Kickstart'), except on an Amiga 4000T model. The A-4000T, and newer ROM versions like 3.X need Workbench 3.1 or Workbench 3.X, which in the Amiga Forever Classic Support distribution include the required 'workbench.library' file.

Shared Improvements

Unlike the improved Workbench 3.1 set, where a combination of ROM enhancements and additional disk space provide the opportunity for additional enhancements, differences between the Classic support edition and the original versions by Commodore are minor.

Workbench 1.3 improvements include:

  • Updated C/SetClock command (Y2K patch)

Workbench 2.1 improvements include:

  • Updated C/Version command (Y2K patch)

Hard Disk Image (Workbench 2.1 Only)

The Amiga Forever 2.1 Classic Support hard disk image is the result of a full installation from the floppy disk set.

Depending on the desired video modes, one or more monitor files may need to be copied manually from 'Storage/Monitors' to 'Devs/Monitors'.

Support for Large Disks or Partitions

The maximum partition size supported by Workbench 2.1 is 2 GB. Disks larger than 4 GB are not supported. If you need to work with larger-capacity disks, consider an upgrade to Workbench 3.1 (which may require a newer ROM).

Emulation-Specific Changes

Workbench 1.3 and 2.1 versions that are included in the emulation environment of Amiga Forever include the above modifications which are shared with the Classic Support series, plus some emulation-specific changes which are not part of the Classic Support series:

  • Added C/Shutdown command (for shutting down the session)
  • Added C/GetHostVar command (for passing data from host to guest)
  • Set default printer to EpsonQ (emulation has emulated EpsonQ printer)
  • Updated S/Startup-Sequence to support Cloanto S/AFShared-Startup
  • Updated S/Shell-Startup to support Cloanto UXCLI
  • Removed C/FF from 1.3 (due to known issues in emulation environments)

For space reasons, these additional changes were applied to the preinstalled hard disk environments only:

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  • Added C/LhA command (for extracting Amiga archives)

These additional changes were applied to Workbench 2.1 only:

  • Restored licensed speech-synthesis files to Devs, L, Libs, Utilities
  • Added Devs/DOSDrivers/Speak
  • Edited SCSI_DEVICE_NAME in Tools/HDToolBox.info ('scsi.device' replaced with 'uaehf.device')

Slightly different hard disk image file names are used to differentiate between the Classic Support ('workbench-134.hdf' and 'workbench-210.hdf') and the emulation-enhanced ('workbench-135.hdf' and 'workbench-211.hdf') versions.

For more details on 'uaehf.device' vs. 'uaescsi.device' and other emulation-specific changes see:

Online Support

Each Classic Support set comes with a license key that can be used to download the same set again for recovery or update purposes. To register for support, please refer to cloanto.com/genuine.

Additional Enhancements

Workbench 1.3 and 2.1 aim to provide maximum compatibility and support for legacy requirements on even the oldest Amiga models. For this reason, only some required Y2K bug fixes have been applied. For additional enhancements, you may want to consider an upgrade to Workbench 3.1.

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