mrios@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Rios) (04/19/89)
(...is there a line-eater for the Amiga?...) I just (really, JUST...four days ago...) bought an Amiga 500 and a 1084S monitor from my friendly dealer, trading in a C128, 1571, and monitor in the deal. This is one SWIFT machine! So...I have access to the Fred Fish compilation, picked up Zork Zero (yay!), and am hacking my way through CLI. What now? Is there anything that you'd wished you'd known when you first bought an Amiga? What can you tell a neophyte (to the Amiga, not computers) that he might find helpful? -- Michael Rios attih!ihlpb!mrios AT&T Secret Police 20231192189121297114420851912920825201522219494725185114479132125914208523125
scobb@bti.UUCP (Steve Cobb) (04/21/89)
In article <12193@ut-emx.UUCP>, mjl@ut-emx.UUCP (Donald A Kassebaum) writes: ... > 9) Don't hesitate to modify your default colors to improve the looks > of text. The default colors are pretty poor in this regard. On a > Commodore monitor, many people prefer dark chars on light background. > Also, substituting a sans serif font for Topaz helps out 80 column > text considerably. Use 'FF' to do the substitution. Some example > fonts: clean, pearl. Over the past few months, I have seen several references to the pearl font. Some saying that pearl 11 is great for interlace screens. Where does one find this font. It's not on any of the workbenches I've seen. Is it PD? or from the original commercial FastFonts? Any insight (or Email gift) would be greatly appreciated. > Maurice LeBrun | "So then I says to Borg, `You know, > Institute for Fusion Studies | as long as we're under siege, one of us > University of Texas at Austin | oughta moon these Saxon dogs.'" > Internet: mjl@128.83.131.1 | > (mjl@fusion.ph.utexas.edu) | (Far Side) Steven Cobb Biomagnetic Technologies, inc. MAIL: 4174 Sorrento Valley Blvd. San Diego, CA 92121 ---------------------- PHONE: (619) 453-6300 x349 | Disclaim all words | UUCP: {ucsd, hplabs!hp-sdd}!ncr-sd!bti!scobb | Ye who read here | ----------------------
davidb@utpsych.toronto.edu (David Brodbeck) (04/29/89)
In article <10251@ihlpb.ATT.COM> mrios@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Rios) writes: >(...is there a line-eater for the Amiga?...) > >I just (really, JUST...four days ago...) bought an Amiga 500 and a 1084S monitor >from my friendly dealer, trading in a C128, 1571, and monitor in the deal. This >is one SWIFT machine! > >So...I have access to the Fred Fish compilation, picked up Zork Zero (yay!), and >am hacking my way through CLI. What now? Is there anything that you'd wished >you'd known when you first bought an Amiga? What can you tell a neophyte (to >the Amiga, not computers) that he might find helpful? > >-- > Michael Rios attih!ihlpb!mrios AT&T Secret Police > >20231192189121297114420851912920825201522219494725185114479132125914208523125 First of all get an AmigaDOS manual. I too had to basically hack my way through the CLI since there was no documentation bundled with the 1000 (that I got in November of 86) that dealt with DOS. There was that cute tutorial, what ever happened to that? I digress, I had to teach myself AmigaDOS which was, well, A pain to say the least. There is some stuff in the Introduction to the A500 book about the CLI and it could be helpful. Welcome to the club! Only Amiga makes it possible -- *********************************************************************** // | Dave Brodbeck - University of Toronto Psychology | GO // | davidb@psych.toronto.edu davidb@ziebmef.UUCP HABS \\ // | brodbeck@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca | G O
rap@rap.ardent.com (Rob Peck) (05/01/89)
In article <1989Apr28.174425.7221@utpsych.toronto.edu> davidb@psych.toronto.edu (David Brodbeck) writes: >>am hacking my way through CLI. What now? Is there anything that you'd wished >>you'd known when you first bought an Amiga? What can you tell a neophyte (to >>the Amiga, not computers) that he might find helpful? > > First of all get an AmigaDOS manual. I too had to basically hack >my way through the CLI since there was no documentation bundled with the >1000 (that I got in November of 86) that dealt with DOS. There was that >cute tutorial, what ever happened to that? I digress, I had to teach >myself AmigaDOS which was, well, A pain to say the least. There is >some stuff in the Introduction to the A500 book about the CLI and it >could be helpful. The "stuff" in the A500 book about the CLI was extracted, almost intact, from section 1.6 of the AmigaDOS Manual... which SECTION I wrote. The rest of the AmigaDOS Manual was written by the folks who wrote the DOS itself. Three years since the AmigaDOS Manual had been written, I sincerely believed that none of the books that had come out in competition with it had done an adequate job of helping the new user... they copied the layout and organization of the AmigaDOS manual, sometimes down to the table of contents, i.e. a chapter on ED, a chapter on EDIT, then Un*x-style man-pages in alphabetical order, with no information whatsoever telling a new user WHY they might be interested in learning about the commands. So with Amiga World, I created the Amiga Companion (blatant commercial plug, but helpful to new users reading the net, so what the heck :-) It is fully tutorial for AmigaDOS: type this, here's what it outputs, here's what that means, and here's WHY you wanted to use the command. For most everything. Second edition in process, available RSN :-), covers all 1.3 options and commands, AND was written with a single-drive owner in mind for everything. Some copies of first edition still available, and Preface has an offer to obtain second edition updates directly from me so as to have second edition equivalent weeks or months ahead of actual availability of the (slightly) higher priced new book. Rob Peck