The Complete Amiga 600 User Guide
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1. From To Requirements Workbench 2 x Workbench 3 1 Kickstart 3 1 Workbench 2 x Workbench 3 5 3 9 Kickstart 3 1 6M RAM 68020 030 accelerator Hard Disk CD ROM In most cases a new Kickstart ROM Chip set needs to be installed Instructions 1 Place the A600 unit upside down on a flat surface 2 Use a screwdriver to remove the case screws 3 Turn the unit to normal face front position Do carefully flip backwards the top cover and then the keyboard assembly IMPORTANT Take care not to damage the cables to the top cover or the ribbon cables to the keyboard assembly 4 The main printed circuit board protected by a shield is now in full view 5 The operating system ROM ICs are labelled and located at position U6A under and U6B upper just at the blank of the shield The old ROM chips should be marked 1992 V3 0 37 350 or older 6 Note the orientation of the old operating system ROM then remove it from the socket T IMPORTANT You should be aware of the fact that there are spare pins at the sockets You have to align the ROM IC to the right side of the socket so that there are spare pins at the left of the ROM ICs 8 Align the 3 1 ROM with the socket and press firmly into place Be cautious not to bend pins 9 Installation is now complete 22 The Motherboard The Amiga 600 has had several revisions including 1 0 1 1 1 3 1 5 2B and 2D A Picture of the A600 2D revision motherboard is2. Display files using Icons only 1 2 9 2 Name Display files using Name and displays protection flags size and date and time last changed 1 2 9 3 Date Display files in date order using same format as Name with the newest files at the top 1 2 9 4 Size Display files in size order using same format as Name with the smallest files at the top 1 3 Icons 1 3 1 Open O This opens or runs the currently selected file or drawer 1 3 2 Copy C Copies one or more files and prefixes the file s with Copy_of_ e g Copy_of_MyFile 1 3 3 Rename R Changes the name of the file A Rename dialogue box appears with the current name 1 3 4 Information l Displays information about the file drawer or disk Includes information about the icon type size comment and protection flags 1 3 5 Snapshot S Saves the current position of file within the window 1 3 6 Unsnapshot U Removes the positioning information from a file 1 3 7 Leave Out L Places the file on the desktop but the file is still located in its original location A backdrop file contains a list of files left out 1 3 8 Put Away P Returns a file left on the desktop back to its original location 1 3 9 Delete This deletes a file or drawer permanently It does not use the Trashcan 1 3 10 Format Disk Formats or prepares a disk to be used to store files and drawers 1 3 11 Empty Trash Empties the content of the Trashcan folder on the boot disk 1 4 Tools 1 4 1
3. More on Workbench will be explained later setting up the Amiga for First Time Before setting up the Amiga make sure you have the following items ready Amiga A600 Monitor or TV Set Mouse Power Supply Joystick optional Speakers optional External Disk drives optional Withe Amiga facing you first plug the square end of the Power Supply cable to the Power socket on the top left hand at the back of the Amiga Plug the other end into a power socket but DO NOT switch on yet lf you have a monitor plug the monitor cable into the Video socket if you have a TV Set then plug it into the RF or Composite socket and also plug the power cable into a power socket Next plug the Mouse into Port 1 of the D shaped sockets on the right hand side at the back Plug any Joystick onto Port 2 next to it The stereo speakers can be plugged into the Left and Right speaker sockets in the middle at the back The speakers can be either stand alone ones or part of the monitor so if necessary plug the other ends into the Left Right sockets on the monitor Plug in to power supply as necessary Finally if you have any external floppy disk drives plug them in to the External Drive socket on the back of the Amiga Further drives can be added to other drives If you have an external hard disk remove the cover from the Expansion port on the left hand side of the Amiga and slot in the drive Now switch on the power and press the power switch located
4. ResetWB Reloads Workbench and redraws the screen 2 The Mouse On the Amiga mouse there are two buttons the Left Mouse Button LMB and the Right Mouse Button RMB Moving the mouse will move the arrow or pointer on the screen 2 1 Using the Right Mouse Button To use the menus press down the RMB and move the pointer to the title bar at the top of the screen Move the pointer over one of the menu names and some menu items will appear Now still with the RMB pressed move the pointer down to the selected menu item and release the RMB to select that item 2 2 Using the Left Mouse Button This button is mainly used to select and move icons around and click on gadgets or buttons 2 2 1 Clicking To select an icon move the pointer over the desired icon and then click the LMB once The icon will change to a reverse or an alternative image to indicate it has been selected When using gadgets such as those on windows there are four gadgets on a window Close W indow to Front Window to Back and Resize move the pointer over the desired gadget and click once to use that gadget The gadget will change briefly and also change the window 2 2 2 Double Clicking This is sometimes a tricky technique to use and requires a steady hand This method is used to open disks drawers and files or run programs To do this move the pointer over the desired icon and in quick succession without moving the pointer click on the LMB twice This should open
5. inserted via the trapdoor expansion slot underneath the Amiga Due to power and space restrictions fast processors such as the 68040 68060 or PPC processors are not supported Typical boards include 1 68020 Accelerators Apollo 620 Has a 20MHz 68020 processor with 68882 FPU and Up to 8MB RAM 2 68030 Accelerators Apollo 630 Has a 33 40 or 50MHz 68030 processor and room for a 68882 FPU One SIMM slot for Up to 32MB of memory This card is not PCMCIA friendly as it overrides its memory spaces needs jumpering Winner 030 Has a 33 40 or 50MHz 68030 processor optional 68882 FPU Up to 32MB RAM in 1 SIMM slot This card is PCMCIA friendly DCE Viper 630 aka E Matrix 640 T 630 Has a 33 40 or 42MHz 68030 processor optional 68882 FPU 33 40 or 42MHz 4 or 8MB of RAM using surface mounted DRAM chips This card is PCMCIA friendly AKA 630 25 Stealth AmigaKit Has a 25 MHz 68030 processor with MMU 32Mb of Fast Memory using surface mounted SDRAM compatible with A603 board software re kick option compatible with CF Compact Flash card hard disk drives 21 Upgrading the Kickstart and Workbench Kickstart 2 x revisions Version Revision Year Notes 2 05 37 210 1991 Early versions for Kickit or Rekick 2 05 37 299 1991 No PCMCIA or IDE hard disk support 2e E 37 300 1991 esios mtoo No support for HDDs gt 40 MB The Amiga A600 can be upgraded to latest Kickstart and Workbench as follows
6. B of Chip memory You can increase RAM by adding memory via anew memory board into the expansion slot underneath the Amiga behind a trapdoor or via the PCMCIA slot using a memory card on the left hand side Additionally memory can be added via a processor accelerator card typically up to 32MB of Fast memory See documentation with a board or device on how to install extra memory 1 Memory Boards AmigaKit A603 Expands memory to 2Mb of Chip RAM real time battery clock clockport expansion expansion slot for Indivision scandoubler flicker fixer Adding a CD or DVD ROM drive to the A600 To add a CD or DVD ROM device to the A600 requires a 4 way buffered IDE device or 4xEIDE 99 which can be purchased from any Amiga dealer such as AmigaKit The buffered IDE device can be connected to the existing built in IDE port on the motherboard and then any hard disks and CD DVD drives can be added Installing the IDEFIX software will allow you use the second IDE port and updates workbench with the necessary software to read CD DVD disks 20 Upgrading the Processor The standard 68000 7 14MHz processor in the Amiga A600 is quite slow compared to more recent processors and cannot cope with bigger applications and games The processor is slotted on the main mother board An accelerator board is required to upgrade to Workbench 3 5 or 3 9 For faster processors such as the 68020 or 68030 then a new expansion board needs to be purchased and
7. IE Coercion Miscellaneous Flags KIS 3 4 4 Overscan Overscan sets the physical screen size the monitor driver is loaded on the left and list of dimensions are shown and two buttons which can be used to resize the display for Text or Graphic displays by dragging one or more of the nine black handles to the desired size Regular Size Text Overscan Standard Overscan Maximum Overscan Save __Use_ 3 4 5 Printer The Printer preference selects the printer driver from Devs Printers and sets other options Printer Port Parallel Serial Paper Type Fanfold Single Paper Size Narrow tractor Wide tractor Custom DIN A4 DIN A5 US Letter US Legal Print Pitch Pica Elite Fine Print Spacing 6 8 LPI Print Quality Draft Letter 14 Paper Length Lines Left and Right Margins Chars Printer Driver 3 4 6 ScreenMode This preference sets the monitor driver display mode resolution and colour depth for the Workbench screen Choose Display Mode Properties of the Selected Mode PAL Hires Width v Default Visible Size re Min Size Height Default Max Size Colors a whit AutoScroll 3 4 7 Time This sets the current date and time and saves in a battery backed clock if provided and in memory 15 3 4 8 Input Input controls certain aspects of the keyboard and the Mouse Mouse Speed How fast the pointer moves around the screen Acceleration Boosts mouse speed when you mo
8. Shift or Alt is pressed Pressing any of the keys does not enter characters in to applications unfortunately DCEO O He BuG je fr ie fo le L E N P fe eer OE Pl lh wie it ew l io p 7 8 Milas phihkt tL P 5 mmz kk ic lv ib le hb V E EP gt ie Attia R Att a 9 6 3 3 2 6 InitPrinter This will initialise any attached printer with the printer s initialisation command using the currently selected driver in the Printer preferences 3 2 7 Colors This program will configure the colors for Workbench Unlike the Palette Prefs this is temporary 11 3 2 8 Printfiles This program allows you to print text files from Workbench To use it to select the files you wish to print use Shift key when selecting multiple files then hold down shift and click Printfiles to print them Use the tool type FLAGS formfeed or FORMFEED true if you want files to start on a new page 3 2 9 Prepcard This tool is used to prepare PCMCIA memory cards as static RAM cards or system memory A Ram Card can hold files like a normal disk and is accessed via the device CCO cards prepared as system memory is added to both Chip and Fast memory you need to reboot before you can use that memory 3 3 0 Memacs Memacs or MicroEmacs is a full screen text editor which allows you to write short documents script files and program files if necessary The figure below shows Memacs with s startup sequence file loaded for editing 3 3 1 HDBackup This pro
9. The Complete Amiga 600 User Guide by Peter Hutchison 2011 Revised 03 01 2011 Contents Introduction Setting up the Amiga for First Time Guide to Workbench 2 05 Menus Mouse Programs Preferences Workbench 2 1 Beyond Workbench 2 05 Adding more Memory to the A600 Adding a CD or DVD ROM drive to the A600 Upgrading the Processor Upgrading the Kickstart and Workbench The Motherboard in details Backward Compatibility Adding a Hard Disk to A600 Installing Workbench onto a Hard Disk Page 3 Page 4 Page 6 Page 6 Page 8 Page 9 Page 13 Page 19 Page 19 Page 20 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 2 Introduction Welcome to the Commodore Amiga A600 The first replacement of the A500 Amiga It was affordable and easy to use It had a wide range of software in particular games which Jay Minor the creator of the Amiga had designed it for The Amiga A600 is based on the Motorola 68000 7 14MHz Processor with 1MbRAM a single 880K floppy drive with support for three more floppy drives and a Custom Chipset that provides the Sound and Graphics The Amiga runs the Operating System called AmigaOS which consists of the Kickstart ROM which contains some essential libraries and devices needed to load Workbench which is the desktop Figure 1 You can a while menu bar at the top and all the disks mounted on the right hand of the screen The Ram Disk is a special one which is a disk in memory basically
10. and for Fonts make sure you create a Fonts drawer on the hard disk first and copy the fonts disk contents into that folder 2
11. ation The DosDrivers for PCO and PC1 need to be loaded 3 4 Prefs Workbench can be customised using Preference programs in the Prefs drawer You can select Save to save changes and will be loaded when rebooted or clicking Use will save preferences in memory only and will be lost on next reboot 3 4 1 Font This selects the default fonts for Workbench Icon Text System default text and Screen text Workbench icon text topaz 8 Screen text _ topaz 8 System default ext _ topaz 8 times 18 times 24 topaz 8 s 123456789 a bBcCdDeEfFgl topaz 9 topaz 11 _ Text Only Text ot ES Text amp Field Field mE EE Save Use Cancel 3 4 2 Pointer This preference can be used to change the shape of the mouse pointer The Pointer can be a Low Res or High Res pointer depending on screen resolution The Set Point button determines where in the image the click point is by default it is at the top left The Test button applies the changes to the current point The Clear button will erase the drawing area The Reset Color will apply the default color palette to the default 13 3 4 3 Icontrol Intuition control specifies preferences for key to use for disk Verify timeout 5 to 5 secs Command keys Mouse drag key and enable options for Screen Menu Snap Text Gadget Filter Avoid Flicker and Text gadget filter Verify Timeout Consand Keys Mouse Screen Drag BI EIE
12. calculations 3 2 2 CMD The CMD program is useful if you wish to redirect printing to a file Run this program before printing and any output will be sent to RAM cmd_file Additional options can be set in the Tool types including 10 DEVICE parallel or serial FILE location of file output SKIP skip flag MULTIPLE store multiple prints NOTIFY notify flag 3 2 3 GraphicDump GraphicDump can be used to print pictures to a printer This is mainly for IFF ILBM pictures use Multiview for other formats Picture size can be set using SIZE Tool Type 3 2 4 IconEdit IconEdit is used to modify file icon or info files on the Amiga Most Workbench 3 x icons are 4 colour icons but can be expanded to multicolour icons via the Extras Color Palette menu You have the main drawing area on the left In the middle you have the currently selected Colour black in this case the colour palette below and the drawing tools freehand drawing curves circles outline or filled rectangles outlined or filled straight lines and the fill tool Each icon has two images normal and selected selected icons are used when a user selects an icon and it usually displays a depressed icon rather than a raised icon the shadow around the edge makes the difference Normal _ Selected re 3 2 5 KeyShow This displays a graphical representation of the keyboard on the screen with the characters that each key represents including those when Ctrl
13. covered with the black tab to protect the disk during this operation Reinsert the disk and with the left mouse button click once on Continue Once the read operation is complete it will ask you to Put DESTINATION TO disk in drive DFO Press the eject button to remove your original Workbench disk and insert your Blank disk the hole should be covered on this disk Click on Continue to write and then verify the information to your new disk You may need to repeat the disk swap a couple of times more until the operation is completed Now you will have a disk called copy of Workbench you can rename this by selecting the disk then select Rename from the Workbench menu and change it to just Workbench You should put your original disk somewhere safe and then use your copy of Workbench from now on Reboot with your new Workbench disk in DFO Guide to Workbench 2 05 Contents 1 The Menus 2 The Mouse 3 WB Programs 4 AmigaDOS 5 Common Problems 1 The Menus At the top of the screen there are three menus which are accessible when you move the pointer to the top of the screen and click the Right Mouse Button RMB Some menus are also accessible via keyboard shortcuts using the left Amiga key and a Letter or character shown in brackets 1 1 Workbench menu 1 1 1 Backdrop B Turns the backdrop window on of off which surrounds the desktop 1 1 2 Execute Command E This displays an input box where you can enter any A
14. ga 600 supports IDE Hard disks as there is space for a 2 5 driveor you can use CF Compact Flash cards as Hard Disks Workbench 2 x can use upto 4GB Hard disks due to limitations of the 32 bit filesystem and the scsi device that controls hard disks You can use larger Hard disks if you switch to a modern Filesystem such as SFS Smart File System or PFS Professional File System and upgrade to Workbench 3 x which has a newer FFS Fast File System Warning If you use a large drive on Workbench 2 0 3 0 you must not partition the drive beyond the 4GB limit otherwise when you write data to the drive it may overwrite the start of the drive To use your hard disk you need to prepare the disk using HDToolbox the program will create a partition for use by AmigaOS The program can be found on the Install disk in the Tools drawer if you do not have HDToolbox you can download HDInstTools from Aminet instead When you run the program you may get something like this screen Change Drive Type Partition Drive k Modify Bad Block List Help Verify Data on Drive Low level Format Drive Save Changes to Drive It should display entry s for all hard disks found If no entries are shown then you need to change the device name for the SCSI_DEVICE_ NAME in the Tooltypes in the Icon Information for HDToolbox Change Drive Type This is used to the read the correct drive configuration from the hard disk including heads cylinders block si
15. gram can be used to backup or restore your files on your Hard disk to Floppy disk or a tape device It can backup using the Archive bit file patterns date or file size hdbackup 37 8 Please select an operation from the Project Menu 3 3 Commodities Drawer 3 3 1 ClickToFront This allows users to click anywhere in a window and Click to bring it to the front of other windows without having to use the window gadgets By default the ALT key needs to be pressed before clicking a window this can be changed Move it to the Startup drawer to autorun it on boot up 12 3 3 2 AutoPoint This allows you to select a window by just moving the mouse pointer over it and does not require a click to activate it 3 3 3 Fkey This program assigns text strings to function keys and it is useful for Shell users Up to 20 possible macros can be programmed Special characters can be used n Return r Return t Tab 0 Zero lt key gt Key combination eg Shift Letter 3 3 4 NoCapsLock This disables the Caps Lock key so you will need to use Shift for Capital letters 3 3 5 Blanker This program will blank the screen after 60 seconds of inactivity 3 3 6 lHelp Configures function keys to manipulate windows and screens For example F1 Cycle F2 Make big F3 Make small F4 Cycle Window F5 Zip Window 3 3 7 CrossDos 2 1 only This is part of the PC Disk driver and this commodity controls text file options for Text Filtering and Text Transl
16. he Display program and Shift and clicking on one or picture files and then double click on the last picture to start the slide show You can run the program and then open a file from the file dialogue box if the file has an Icon file you can set its Default Tool to use Display to open and view the file automatically 3 1 1 3 More This program can be used from the command line to view text files with page breaks between screen s worth of text 3 1 1 4 Say This program uses the built in narrator to speak english to you by typing in words in the Input window You can change the narrator using command such as m male f female r robot n natural S speed 40 400 or p pitch 65 to 320 ram window alie i SROH AY4 AEM AEN EY3 SIH4K ZIY4ROW x AY4 AEM AEN EY3 SIH4KS ma AEM AEN EY3 SIHAKS y 600 I am an ay six hundred I am an Ay six hundred 3 1 1 5 Exchange This program lists the commodity programs in memory and can control commodities by displaying commodity options end a commodity and so on 3 2 Tools Drawer 3 2 1 Calculator o Calculator pip BB 2 E Here is a simple calculator you can press the buttons to enter values or use the keypad The symbols are CA Cancel All CE Cancel Entry Multiply Divide Add Subtract Decimal point lt Backspace Change sign Equals The Calculator Tape window can display equations as you enter them useful for long
17. ices including DosDrivers monitors printers and Keymaps CrossDos to read PC formatted disks Locale Preferences PrinterPS Preferences for Postscript printers Sound Preferences Beyond Workbench 2 x Workbench has been upgraded four times since 2 x 3 0 3 1 3 5 and 3 9 Workbench 3 5 and 3 9 have enhanced Workbench a lot and come on CD they include Multimedia Programs Web browser i e Aweb e Genesis for Internet and network access e Amidock for program start bar Warp OS 5 0 for PowerPc support e lomega Tools for Zip and Jaz disks e New Powerful shell Automatic datatype recognition e Integrated unpacker unarc e Fast search for files New picture datatype e Many more tools HTML documentation For Workbench 3 5 or higher you would need an accelerated Amiga A600 with at least a 68020 processor with more memory If Workbench is too limiting you can replace the entire workbench with a replacement such as Directory Opus 6 which has a feature rich interface with more customisation than before and much easier to use There are many more libraries and programs too numerous to mention which can enhance the Workbench experience Check out http www aminet com for them 19 Adding more Memory to the A600 The Amiga memory is split into Chip RAM memory used by the custom chipset to store graphics and sound and Fast RAM memory which is used only by the Processor The Amiga A600 comes with 1M
18. migaDOS command or launch any Workbench program by entering its name For example typing NewShell will open a Command Shell window 1 1 3 Redraw All This redraws all the icons on the desktop 1 1 4 Update All Reload all the icons and redraw them 1 1 5 Last Message Display the last error or information message on the title bar 1 1 6 About 7 Display Kickstart and Workbench versions and Copyright information 1 1 7 Quit Q Exit Workbench this will quit workbench and leave the workbench screen open You should open a command window before quitting otherwise a reboot is required 1 2 Window menu 1 2 1 New Drawer N Create a new drawer or directory or folder in the current window 1 2 2 Open Parent Open the parent window of the current window 1 2 3 Close K Close the current window 1 2 4 Update Update icons in the current window 1 2 5 Select Contents A Select all the icons in the current window 1 2 6 Clean Up Tidy up the icons into a standard left to right and top to bottom layout 1 2 7 Snapshot 1 2 7 1 Window Save the current window size and position in icon information 1 2 7 2 All Save the window and all icon size and position information in their respective icon files 1 2 8 Show 1 2 8 1 Only Icons Displays files that have an icon file and hides all other files 1 2 8 2 All Files Display all files in window whether or not they have an icon file or not 1 2 9 View By 1 2 9 1 Icon
19. on the Power Supply for the Amiga and switch on the monitor If you do not have disks inserted you will see the Insert Disk screen below Figure 2 You can then insert either a Workbench disk or any other bootable disk such as a game into the floppy drive on the right hand side of the Amiga called DFO Disk Floppy Zero Insert your Original Workbench disk and wait for the workbench screen to appear Before continuing recommend that you make one or more copies of your original Workbench disks to use rather than the Original as that can become damaged over time and you may need to make other copies later To make a copy get hold of a blank 880K double density disk ready then move the white arrow called a pointer with the mouse over the Workbench 3 0 disk and click the left mouse button once this will select the disk then move the pointer to the top left of the screen and click and HOLD the right hand mouse button and a menu appear make sure the Icons menu is selected move the mouse down the menu and select Copy Put SOURCE dis OM disk in drive DF Cancel D p Cont inue A on lt uw Daa fa 3 IE m l pani za m z gt 7 oo on lt Figure 3 It will say Put SOURCE disk FROM disk in drive DFO remove the disk from the floppy drive and make sure it is your original Workbench disk at the top there is a hole make sure it is not
20. re Centres picture in the middle of the page Limits Determines paper edge limits Can be Ignore Bounded Absolute Pixels Multiply Density Determines the resolution in DPI of the output 17 3 4 11 Serial BAUD Rate Input Buffer Size Handshaking Parity Bits Z Char Stop Bits g a J a The Serial preferences control communications through the serial port with the following settings Input Buffer Size Size of the buffer in bytes to store data Baud Rate Speed of communication in bites sec Handshaking XON XOFF Software RTS CTS Hardware or None Parity Number or type of bits used for error checking Bits Char Number of bits used for data Stop bits Number of bits used at the end of data 3 4 14 W BPattern Pattern Workbench pattern preferences can display specific patterns or pictures to customize your Workbench desktop Pattern Workbench Windows Test Tests your pattern or picture Clear Clear drawing area using selected colour Undo Undo the last change made Color Palette List of available colors selected color at the top Presets Predetermined patterns to use You can create your own patterns in the empty box on the right and select which colours to use 18 Workbench 2 1 Workbench 2 05 can be upgraded to Workbench 2 1 which has the following minor changes Removed Colors AddMonitor BindMonitor e Say and Speak device Added e New Devs system to easily add new dev
21. shown below Hi Bees oo pype j aif f V A TE a J 3 bao Pa From the left top to bottom IDE connector Supports 2 5 Hard drives natively PCMCIA slot for 16 bit memory cards and Network cards Super DENISE chip 39081 supports ECS graphics supporting HAM6 4096 colours and EHB Extra half bright for 64 colours Motorola 68000 Main Central Processor Kickstart ROM Chip The A600 had one 512K ROM chip that held part of AmigaOS and allow the Amiga to boot from Floppy or Hard disk AGNUS chip 31069 Supports 2MB of Chip RAM the Blitter and 25 DMA channels large center chip GAYLE chip 391155 IDE controller chip large bottom middle chip CIA Chip 391078 Controls ports such as Serial Parallel and Mouse ports CIA Chip 391078 Second CIA chip for controlling ports PAULA 391077 Controls the sound and the floppy drive DRAM Chips 2MB of Chip RAM included from NEC Expansion slot in trap door Mouse and Joystick ports 23 Backward Compatibility Compatibility with older software can be done in two ways Hardware and Software Hardware a Install a Kickstart ROM Switcher to allow you to switch between Kickstart 1 3 and later Kickstart Software a Use a SoftKicker program to load old Kickstart into memory e g Skick b Use Disk to Hard disk programs such as JST and WHDLoad to copy the games to hard disk and emulate the older system 24 Adding a Hard Disk to A600 The Ami
22. the icon 2 2 3 Dragging This technique allows you to move objects such as icons around the screen or resize windows Select an icon with a single click now keep the LMB down and move the pointer the icon will now be dragged with the pointer If you let go of the pointer the icon will be dropped into its new position 2 2 4 Multiple selection You can select more than one icon at a time To do this click on the first icon press the SHIFT key down either one and then click on the second third fourth icons etc to select multiple icons You can also select a whole group of icons by pressing the LMB at the top left of the icons and while keeping the LMB down moving the pointer towards the bottom right An expanding box will appear and the icons with in it will be selected 3 The Programs Here will give a brief explanation of the programs provided with Workbench 2 05 3 1 Workbench Disk 3 1 1 Utilities Drawer 3 1 1 1 Clock This displays an analogue or digital clock showing the present time and or date From the menu you can select Analog Digital 1 or Digital 2 difference being is that one displays time in a window the other displays time in the window bar You can also set the mode 12 or 24 hour display seconds or not 9 the date and whether to set an alarm for something 3 1 1 2 Display This program can view pictures in the Amiga IFF ILBM format It can also display multiple pictures like a slideshow by selecting t
23. ve it around Double click Delay between clicks before its accepted as a double click You can use the Show and Test double click buttons below to check in Key Repeat Delay Delay before a pressed key becomes repeated again Key Repeat Rate Determines how often a key is repeated on the screen Key Repeat test Test repeat settings Mouse Speed Acceleration Double Click Show Keyboard Key Repeat Delay Key Repeat Rate Key Repeat Test oo 16 3 4 9 Palette This preference allows you to change the default colours shown at the top left with new colours using the RGB Red Green Blue sliders underneath for more fine control 3 4 10 PrinterGfx Color Correct Smoothing Left Offset Ez Dithering Scaling Image Aspect Shade Threshold Printer Graphics preference sets options for when printing pictures or diagrams using a printer See Printer preferences Color Correct Corrects colour by reducing number of colours available to correct RGB imbalances Dithering Ordered Halftone Floyd Steinburg Scaling Fraction Integer Image Positive Negative Aspect Horizontal Vertical Shade Black amp Write Grey Scale 1 or 2 Colour Threshold Determines the colours on the screen are printed as black and white Smoothing Smooths diagonal lines by certain dithering techniques except Floyd Steinburg Left Offset How far from the left edge the output starts Center Pictu
24. wish The Advanced Options will display the actual Cylinder numbers for you for each partition useful in case of disaster recovery and want to create partitions exactly as before Click OK when done When satisfied that your partitions are set up click on Save Changes to Drive which will write the configuration to an RDB Rigid Disk Block on the drive which is read when you boot up Reboot the Amiga and boot off Install disk again you should get one or more new disk icons on the Workbench select the icon and use Format Disk from the Icons menu to prepare the disk for use Warning If the disk is larger than 4GB do not use the Format program supplied with Workbench but use a new version which supports larger disks Try the one supplied with a new filesystem such as Smart File System SFS from http strohmayer org 26 Installing Workbench onto a Hard Disk Boot off the Install disk and run the InstallHD script to install Workbench 2 0 or if you have an older version of Workbench run the UpgadeWB script to update Workbench If you do not have an Install disk you can manually install Workbench by opening a Shell window insert the workbench disk on DFO and type COPY DFO TO DHO ALL CLONE QUIET This will copy all the folders and files including the important hidden drawers from your Workbench floppy disk to your Hard disk HDO in this case You can copy the contents of the other disks as well using the same copy comm
25. ze and so on If the drive is Unknown use this to confirm the correct size of your hard disk before partitioning it Modify Bad Block List A hard disk can develop unusable areas on the surface on the Hard disk called Bad Blocks you can add new ones found using this option Low level Format Drive Use with caution This wipes the entire drive of data and partition information Most modern drives do NOT require a low level format and may ignore this Partition Drive Used to create partitions on your hard disk so that you can store data and programs Verify Data on Drive This will check the entire disk for any bad blocks and maps them out for you Save Changes to Disk Use this option to save disk configuration and partition changes to disk Help A brief help window on how to use HDToolbox 25 Click on Partition Drive and you should get a screen something like this Partitioning Drive File System Fa m e a E Es Click on New Partition to create a new partition in the empty space at the top of the screen You can resize it using the blue arrow by dragging it across the screen If the partition will have Workbench installed you can make it bootable by ticking Bootable The default File System is shown you can switch to another filesystem using Change or you can Add or Update a filesystem using the Add Update button for things like SFS or PFS The Default Setup will set up two partitions of equal size for you if you
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