This channel is a treasure trove for somebody that just decided to get into Amiga... wow! Thanks!

This has to be the most fascinating series on the Amiga. Thank you for posting this! I never knew the Amiga OS was so powerful. I now feel i underused my Amiga when i was a kid :(

Oh man!! This tip about backing up your entire WB partition is exactly what I needed!! You know, I bought 3.1.4 when it came out but I never installed it because I didn’t have the ROM and decided I might as well wait on the ROM so I could have larger partitions. But I was dreading having to start over with a new CF card. Now I can upgrade without the ROM and when I get the ROM it should be easy to change drives.

First time watching your older videos. These are great! Learning things!

Well, never knew you didn't need to actually type cd every time :-) Another great tutorial Doug. Thanks.

I learned all of this stuff in 1992 and you've just brought it all back - thank you :o)

Great tut! Never knew about that 'Safe Mode Booting' on my original Amiga machine.

Great Job Marc! I have a few Amiga models and I am getting back into the Amiga scene! Your videos have helped me tremendously over the past few months. Keep the videos coming! Just got an Amiga 1200 recapped and going to get some new upgrades for it soon. These workbench videos are a big help!

Great job with this Doug! Thanks so much for doing these tutorials and huge congrats on the 1K subs. Well deserved! And I agree, the Amigos are top dudes!

Nice job Doug, this series is great and I am looking forward to more. It's easy to forget how ahead of it's time the Amiga was and is still very useful, not just for playing great games! 👍

A great guide to Amiga CLI. I used to just rename the files in C to change commands to d, del, md, mem etc, but I never knew about alias until today, so I learned something new there. :) Thanks a lot. Hope you will go into some Amiga utilities and even CLI tools down the line at some point, as everyone had special tools they used to use. My C directory has 450 files in there, so some time back I must have collected all these crazy commands from disks and CDs and such.

I had to pause the video to test out this. I booted into Workbench 1.3...: work: dir all > speak: I am in heaven listening for hours with the contents of my 16gb work partition

Thank you very much Doug. After 30 years i learned about the run command. I never used it in the back days where the CLI was my second home. It seems like it was just yesterday for me :-)) You did a great job and for an old Retro-Kraut from germany (like me) it is very helpful that you do this in a slow an well understandable way.

Well done on the 1k subscribers. You earned them. And another great video.

Congrats on the 1000 subs ! Keep going !

Loved this. Thankyou! Had a 1500 when I was in my early teens , then moved on to Mainframe and Midarnage for a long time for work... Came back and had forgotten everything. This was a great refresher.. Still wonder why I can't cd... :-) Please keep these CLI tutorials going..A REX tutorial would be great too :-) Loved the coverage of assign too!

Congrats for the 1000+ subscribers! Well deserved!

So thats what NIL: is ;-) Great guide! Look forward to the next one.

Love this series of tutorials.

Nice job on the video and getting to 1k subs. I have enjoyed watching your videos and I know they will be helpful to folks who have forgotten most of this stuff from back in the day. Keep up the good work.

Just catching up here Doug, thanks very much for this, another great video. And again, some interesting stuff I hadn't appreciated or hadn't quite understood the first time around. Great series.

Thanks Doug this really helped with a error to clear on my A2000 WB2.1.. great work..

Love this - please do more...

Here is the Amiga, beautiful graphical UI, mulstisating, windows in different resolutions, all that stuff. how awesome. Now let's make use of all that power by... just using the command line. :P

This is a fantastic video, Doug. I somehow missed this episode and was pointed in the direction of it over on the Amiga Addict Discord group. Thank you for putting this together. The Shell section of your video is amazing.

1K subscribers congratulations!

🎉👍 on the 1000 subs. Nice tutorial 😀 I thought I knew my way around Amiga dos, but I learnt a few things from your video. Thank you.

great! I saw the mistake with Docs: while you type. So, it proved - you teached me well! Looking forward a new Video. I‘m back on the Amiga and try to catch it up ... 👍🏼 Greetings from north germany 🇩🇪😄

Congrats on getting to your 1000 mark. I've recently my 100 mark. So only a few more to catch up! LOL Some really nice nuggets of information for novices to the Amiga, and users who are a bit long in the tooth now, that could do with a bit of a reminder.

Awesome work....well done mate....very good camera angles and well explained.....! 😁

perfect Video. you made me seriously think a bout having an Amiga again.

Thank you, very much Doug!!!

Subbed today. Great job :)

Great job Doug!!!! thanks :)

Actually >NIL is nothing more than a pipe to a null output (hence the name NIL). That tell the shell to not print to normal STDOUT/STDERR, which would be the console output at that time. Which means that you won't see the assign command nor its output in the console when WB is loading. Amiga shell did borrow some nice facilities from Unix; if you use a unix system you may see a similar construct when doing ` > 1&2` for example. The startup sequence itself is kinda like a .bash_rc while the user-startup may be seen as .bash_user file.

In the very late 1980s (89 I think) I was on a Mobil oil rig in the north sea. They were monitoring the drill string on what I was sure was an Amiga. I just wish someone would put me out of my misery and either confirm or debunk this as some sort of alternate universe I had fell into. I think that alternative amiga universe is surely a better place than this one.

Awesome video Doug! Congratulations for the 1000 subscribers! Well deserved! ;-) So for me that I have a 4 GB boot partition and 116 GB Work drive, the "Buffers" should be set to something like 600? At the moment they are both set to 30. I am running OS 3.1.4.1

ProWrite? You mean you’re not a Final Writer guy? Final Writer 97 was up there with DPaint V as one of my favorite productivity applications.

Very good work. Perhaps a little too deep but would appreciate your discussion on the Amiga custom chips -- what made them great and bad.

Good job

Amazing thank you

It seems that the '.info' files work similar to how .PIF files worked on Windows 3.x. PIF stands for "Program Information File."

Amiga's Workbench startup-sequence sorta reminds me of Linux's .bashrc, it's very interesting.

You should have, or at least i would have, put your assign command in the User-Startup file. The easiest way to fix a bad startup-sequence is to copy the one from your original OS floppies over your bad one. That provides a working base system. Then i can add whatever i want one thing a time and test the new item. Usually my problems are in the User-Startup as i put everything there. That's a better place to have issues. Since at least i have a full working base system available to help figure out what is wrong.

This was very helpful. I am used to using bash on Linux and could see a few similarities, but also quite a few unique things. I presume that the amiga is like DOS/Windows and case insensitive?

Keep up the good work :-) can you do some amiga c graphics programming?

I am editing a Cd32 compilation CD, Its a homemade CD, this is CD200, there are CD444 and CD888, it has 200 games on it that run on the Amiga CD32, its is a iso file, it was made in 2003, I have copied its files to run in a HDF file in WinUAE but when you run it, it comes up with a black screen and CD200 icon as its mouse in the top left corner of the screen so can not see if there is error cause there is no Amiga shell showing, is there a way to get the Amiga shell to show on the screen so I can see if there are any errors in its startup sequence..? I am respacing AGS with AGS2(Arcade Game Selector 2) inside it I got AGS2 to work on Classic Workbench GAAE but can't get it to run on this, I might copy some of the workbench files over to it so it can use them, maybe something is missing cause its old but I can not see what happening cause the screen is black so there must be a code 10 on the screen I can't see or something. Dose anyone know what files changes what the mouse pointer looks like, what loads on start-up to change it, on this its a CD200 icon, and is there something that controls the screen and if the Amiga DOS Shell appears or not,I marked off the whole start-up sequence file and it still does it so its something its loading before the start-up sequence...?

directory cache is only suitable for floppy disks. hard drives and especially cf cards are fast enough, so you don't really need directory cache. what do i have to set up for being able to send command to speak: (which is narrator.device/say i assume)? if i try that on my a500+/aca500+ with amigaos 3.1installed, workbench is asking for a disk called speak. narrator.device, translator.library and say utility from older workbench disks are installed already. for selfmade assigns i prefer s:user-startup which is the script file i am tampering with, if i add anything to startup. i only edit startup-sequence if i really have to, if a program really needs an entry in startup sequence (patches for example). otherwise i opt for user-startup. and yeah, redit is the editor i use. :D nil = alternate dimension? :D in other words, nil is simply void. :D

I wish I saw this years ago:) Is possible to assign disk dh1: as WBstartup? I want sometimes boot some program and my system disk is too small to copy this program or game to WBstartup folder.

Didn’t know about the Advanced Options Buffers and about the Black Size. What is best option for a 4GB CF. Got now a brand new ACA1233n-55 but WHDLoad don’t run because MMU not in use. Show that you can charge it in CLI, S:WHDLoad.prefs..

I've been searching for the HD Toolbox, but it's not included in my original WB disks. I can see the other Tools (like MEmacs, Lacer, etc...) in the Extras floppy disk, but I don't see the hdtoolbox... :-(

hiya doug were is part 3 ??. i can only find a wb 3.1.4 update video you did on some programs in episode 34 ? at about the 3min marc (marc) in episod 30 you said it was for os 3.1 so ive searched part 3 tutorial and 3.1 and i cant seem to find any type of follow of video ...

what do i have to set up for being able to send command to speak: (which is narrator.device/say i assume)? if i try that on my a500+/aca500+ with amigaos 3.1installed, workbench is asking for a disk called speak. narrator.device, translator.library and say utility from older workbench disks are installed already.

Why after edit of startup-sequence, when I try to save changes and exit, I get message that "edits will be lost"?

I have a GVP sidecar with 8mb and with a drive 9GB I split in 4 partitions 1gb 1gb 3.5gb and 3.5gb but I cannot see with this program only with the GVP Installation software!!!?? How to make to read with this?

Where is part 1?

How do I run a floppy disk on Amiga. I can’t find this simple instruction anywhere!!!

My sampler program (techno sound turbo) keeps on crashing on me after 5 or so minutes using it. The screen blacks out and I’ve no way of going back to the previous screen. Similar thing with Workbench 1.3. After loading it, if I don’t touch it for a minute or so the screen goes totally blue and there’s no way of going back to the desktop. Would anyone here know what’s going on here? I’m very new to Amiga but this seems very odd..thanks in advance

Next video should be: How to make AROS run on Amiga with Vampire :-)

I can't help wonder if we're in the NUL: dimension where all the Microsoft junk gets dumped. Perhaps in the NIL: dimension the Amiga flourished and your counterpart is creating retro videos on the bad old MS-DOS days...

30 years later.... you can boot holding mouse buttons xD