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What the scripts leave on the Amiga

Proceed, ScreenMode, Snapshot, a saved MUI preset, and a game’s own installer.

Why any of this

The Amiga 1200 was the last great Amiga Commodore made, and the desktop people built on it is the one worth having back: Kickstart 3.1, AGA, a hard disk, a graphics card for a screen bigger than the chipset could draw, MUI for modern windows, color icons, and WHDLoad so every game lives on the disk instead of in a box of floppies. An emulator or a MiSTer puts that machine back on your desk. Getting to that finished desktop is the work.

You cannot download it ready-made. Workbench and Kickstart still belong to someone, so the disks and the ROM have to be yours, and Commodore’s own installer has to copy them. Everything after that is a recipe of Proceed buttons, the Green Amiga Alien guide, which people have followed by hand for twenty years. These notes turn that recipe into scripts, so someone new to Amiga emulation gets the upgraded A1200 in an afternoon, from disks they own.

The end of the road is a build nobody babysits. AmiPilot can sit inside the running Amiga, click what is left of the installers, and take a picture of the screen, so an AI agent can check that the desktop came up, that the icons are in color, that a game launches, and fix the script when they are not. Every page here is one step toward that.

Everything above is a file or a configuration line. These windows are a choice or a mouse position, and they are yours. The pipe inserts a disk and resets. It does not press Proceed. This is also the list AmiPilot exists to take on, inside the emulator, once the build runs without a person at the desk.

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Workbench installer
Language, printer, keymap, and the last Proceed before the reboot.
Answer those in the installer. The disk it names is already the pipe’s job.
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ScreenMode
Pick a uaegfx mode and save it.
The card is already in Devs:Monitors. The saved mode is this window.
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Snapshot
Drag the drawers, then Window, Clean Up, Snapshot All.
Those menus write positions into each icon. There is no host shortcut for that gesture.
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Stuntzi
Load Stuntzi.prefs in MUI preferences and save.
The file is in MUI:Presets. Save writes the settings MUI loads.
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Icons and Scalos
MagicWB, NewIcons, or Scalos, each with its own Proceed path.
Pick one. Those installers replace icons rather than drop one known drawer. Scalos also wants the new window resized to the screen.
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A game
An installer that stops and asks for the original disk.
Put that ADF in with insert or floppy0. The game’s own Proceed path stays. Use a disk you own.

The manual steps are Chapters 3, 8, 9, and 12 of the Green Amiga Alien guide. The commands are in amiga-utils.