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- ENGLISH.TXT
-
- A help file to get you started with EMULA
-
- Unfortunately, no one has translated the documentation for EMULA,
- so here's a short description of how to install and use EMULA.
- This info was obtained by my experimentation with EMULA, and my
- very limited (i.e., bad) knowledge of German, so this is NOT a
- complete and accurate description. It should be enough to get you
- started, however.
-
- Basically, EMULA5_1.PRG should be placed into the AUTO folder of a
- boot disk. EMULA5_1.PRG must be the first program to run when the
- system is booted, so make sure it is the first program in the AUTO
- folder! To ensure that it is the first program, create a new AUTO
- folder, copy EMULA5_1.PRG into it FIRST, then copy any other AUTO-
- programs you want into the folder.
-
- WARNING: DO NOT INSTALL EMULA ON YOUR AUTO-BOOT HARD DISK! EMULA
- does some nifty tricks with GEM, so it may not like other AUTO
- programs, or even desk accessories. Don't risk being locked out
- of your hard drive. Experiment with your AUTO-programs and
- accessories on a floppy drive BEFORE you try installing EMULA on a
- hard drive!
-
- When you boot your ST with EMULA in the AUTO folder, a menu will
- appear. At this point, you can choose F for color or M for
- monochrome. If you have a color system, and you choose F, EMULA
- simply boots you into color mode. But, if you choose M, EMULA
- displays a fuzzy-looking but usable monochrome desktop! Because
- of the programming overhead, the monitor refresh rate is slower,
- so your desktop is jerky and slow.
-
- If you have a monochrome system and you choose M, you will see
- your normal desktop. If you choose F, you will see an EMULA
- imitation of the low-res desktop. It will cover only the left
- half of the screen, since there's only 320 X-pixels in low-res
- (there is a way to force low-res to appear on the whole screen,
- more about that later.) As mentioned above, the emulated screen
- is slow.
-
- If you copy EMULA_U5.ACC to your boot disk, you will have access
- to an accessory called EMULA Anpassung. This ACC lets you modify
- the way that the emulated screen is displayed. For instance, if
- you choose 1 from the first dialog while in emulated low-res, the
- desktop stretches out to fill the whole screen. Similarly, if you
- choose 1 while in monochrome emulation, your fuzzy desktop becomes
- a clear, scrolling screen. You'll have to experiment with the
- rest of the items. (One of the items is obviously a mouse
- accelerator, but I'm not sure what the others are.)
-
- If START comes across an English translation of the documentation,
- we will certainly place it onto the START disk. If you take it
- upon yourself to tackle the translation, please send it to START,
- so we can put it on the disk.
-
- Jim Burton
- Tech Editor
- GENIE address: ANTIC
- COMPUSERVE: 76703,1052