d@alice.UucP (Daniel Rosenberg) (02/22/86)
I got mine.
And may I make a suggestion for other prospective purchasers of this machine
in the New York City area- Olden at 34th St and Broadway, a block uptown
from the 33rd St PATH station.
1) It is $1695, not $1895, for 256K system unit w/1080 monitor.
2) If you live outside of New York, so sales tax, but a $40
shipping charge. My Amiga came A DAY EARLIER than they
said it would arrive. Usually when I order equipment,
it's a month late.
3) The salespeople don't know a whole lot about the machine,
but are otherwise helpful.
And now, some questions...
Where can I get a(n) { AmigaDOS Manual, Hardware Manual, and other Technical
Manual } ?
I copied AmigaBASIC (MS species) to the Workbench disk. I turned on the CLI
option in Preferences. Now, whenever I open my Workbench icon, all the
other icons (AmigaBASIC, CLI, Trash, etc.) are all piled on top of each
other, and the drawers are halfway out the window. I rearrange them, save
the INFO option on the disk icon, EVERYTHING- and it still makes a mess.
What goes? And how do .info files work anyway? Are they just copies of the
icon?
Where can I get a font editor?
Why is the AmigaBASIC manual (among others) such a mess?
Thanks in advance,
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# Daniel Rosenberg / Bell Labs / Murray Hill / I disclaim.
# {ihnp4;allegra;research}!alice!d || {ihnp4;allegra;research}!charm!danspencer@oberon.UUCP (Randy Spencer) (02/24/86)
> I copied AmigaBASIC (MS species) to the Workbench disk. I turned on the CLI > option in Preferences. Now, whenever I open my Workbench icon, all the > other icons (AmigaBASIC, CLI, Trash, etc.) are all piled on top of each > other, and the drawers are halfway out the window. I rearrange them, save > the INFO option on the disk icon, EVERYTHING- and it still makes a mess. > What goes? And how do .info files work anyway? Are they just copies of the > icon? > # Daniel Rosenberg / Bell Labs / Murray Hill / I disclaim. Each *.info file contains the info for the bitmap and contains the position that it holds on the screen. The file disk.info contains the icon info for the disk that appears when the disk is inserted. When you move an icon you must save the info file for it again. This is a pain, if you use the clean-up option you must select each icon and then save the info file. If you want to save the position that the window opens, that is saved by selecting the disk icon and save the info for that (select get info and then click in the save box). There is another file called simply ".info" I forget where that fits into this scheme at this moment and I am too busy watching the Monkees on MTV to check. Perhaps there is someone else who will fill this in. One other thing: When you insert a disk the icon will appear on the screen. It is placed in a freespace on the screen, however, sometimes a disks name goes off the edge of the screen is one is tempted to move it so that the name can be read. If you do this and then save the info file (as above) the ability of workbench to place the icon in a free space is gone, and in the future it will be displayed exactly where it was saved. With the Icon editor I got with 1.1 I have been having enormous amounts of fun redefining icons. I only wish that it was possible to redefine the icon that is generated for the trash can when a disk is initialized. -- ============================================================================== Randal Spencer - Student DEC Consulting - University of Southern California (213) 743-5363 UUCP...!{uscvax,sdcrdcf,engvax,scgvaxd,smeagol}!oberon!spencer Arpa: Spencer@USC-ECL or Spencer@USC-Oberon Bitnet: Spencer@USCVAXQ Home: 937 N. Beverly Glen Bl. Bel Air California 90077 (213) 470-0428 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------