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gareth_2008 20:39 2nd April 2008
hey, i have a amiga 500 how do i go about changing the time and date? sorry im a total noob but im learning
cheers
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Harrison 22:46 2nd April 2008
Do you have a ram expansion in the trap door under the A500? If so then it should have a battery backed clock built into the ram expansion. If you don't then the A500 doesn't have a way to remember the time and date while it is switched off.
If you do have a ram expansion with battery backed clock, the likelihood is that the battery is now dead after all these years so you will need to replace it.
To change the date and time, go into your Workbench preferences drawer. It will either be on the main boot Workbench disk if you are running Workbench from floppy disk, or on the harddrive in the DH0: partition or whatever your main boot partition is called.
BTW, which version of Workbench are you running? 1.3, 2.04, 3?
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Stephen Coates 09:52 3rd April 2008
What kind of batteries do the RAM expansions tend to use?
My A500+ still has it's original battery on the motherboard and it still works.
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gareth_2008 10:32 3rd April 2008
Tiago 10:57 3rd April 2008
Hello gareth_2008 ,
it should be a 512kb memory card
You have 512KB of main machine + 512 expansion. a total of 1024kb
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gareth_2008 11:07 3rd April 2008
ok thanks one other thing whats the switch for? cheers
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Tiago 12:21 3rd April 2008
The switch is just to turn it on/off.
There is a really small number of games, that dont like expansion cards.... i think...
Just live it allways turn on.
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gareth_2008 12:31 3rd April 2008
where does it display how much ram i have? because i have no idea if the board is on or off cheers
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Graham Humphrey 12:36 3rd April 2008
The title bar in Workbench should tell you that.
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Tiago 12:38 3rd April 2008
Do you have the "workbench disk" ?
Workbench is the operation system.
Workbench comes in 6 disk (i dont remember exact number), but with the main disk you are able to boot. Just insert the disk and reboot, your amiga will boot in around 15 seconds and you will have a bar in top of your screen, and will show you the total memory and the used memory
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