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- Overview1.3o6
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- Copyright (c) 1985,1986,1987,1988 Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
- All Rights Reserved
-
- The files on this disk are copyrighted and proprietary. In addition, all
- files related to 1.3 or future products are preliminary and subject to
- change. All files and programs are supplied as-is and are not warranted
- as to completeness, accuracy, or suitability for any particular purpose.
-
- (Gaak! I'm starting to sound like a lawyer!)
-
-
- YOU MUST READ THIS ENTIRE FILE OR I WILL REPOSSESS YOUR DISKS
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-
- 1. WHAT YOU CAN'T DO WITH THESE DISKS AND DOCUMENTS
-
- You may not distribute these disks or anything on these disks
- You may not post or print or publish anything on these disks
- You may not post or print or publish any enclosed documents
- You may not discuss these disks or documents in any public forum
- You may not discuss them at all except with other Gamma testers
- You may not use these disks as frisbees outdoors
-
-
- 2. WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE DISKS AND DOCUMENTS
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- Make copies of the Bug Report form. Then...
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- Read everything.
- Read the Documents and Readmes.
- All Readme disk docs are clickable from WB.
- Report any documentation discrepancies or omissions.
-
- Test evrything you can.
- Test the new commands and handlers. Test the FFS. Test the
- new ieee libraries (especially if you have a peripheral or
- coprocessor '881). Try the new Prefs, printer.device and
- drivers. Try the Includes. Try everything that's new.
- And if you have an A1000, boot it with the 1.2.1. Kickstart.
-
- Test your commercial software and hardware with the Kickstart 1.2.1.
- and Workbench 1.3o6.
-
- Promptly report all bugs, omissions, problems, incompatibilities,
- etc. using a copy of the enclosed bug report. An electronic
- version of the bug report form can be found on the Readme1.3g4
- disk.
-
- Mail paper bug reports to:
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- Andy Finkel - 1.3o6
- CBM Engineering
- 1200 Wilson Drive
- West Chester, PA 19380
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- Mail electronic bug reports to:
- BIX: afinkel
- GENIE: afinkel
- UUCP: {allegra,uunet,rutgers}!cbmvax!bugs
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- 3. WHAT'S PROBABLY INCLUDED
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- Documents (Paper Things)
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- Cover Letter - Your responsibilities as a Gamma Tester
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- Bug Report - One of your responsibilities
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- Command Docs - Cover additions and enhancements to Workbench
- commands, handlers, etc.
-
- Disks (Hard square things)
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- Kickstart 1.2.1. - Current 1.3 KS by a different name
- Workbench 1.3 o6 - Gamma 4 pre-release of 1.3 Workbench
- Extras 1.3 o6 - Gamma 4 Extras (some WB things have moved here)
- Readme1.3o6 - Preliminary readmes and examples, new autodocs
- Include1.3o6 - Commented Asm and C include files
- Include.Strip1.3o6 - Stripped includes, fd's, offsets, startups,
- and a few utilities
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- 4. WHAT'S WHERE
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- 1.2.1 Kickstart - Equivalent to current 1.3 Kickstart except the
- hand says "1.2.1." and everything else is
- probably at a slightly different address than
- in the version that says "1.3". So don't even
- think about patching this.
-
- 1.3 (and 1.2.1) Kickstart is 1.2 Kickstart with
- additional code for autobooting off specially
- designed devices. Generally such devices would
- be autoboot expansion devices with ROM driver on
- board. If you don't have one of those yet
- (and you probably don't unless your company is
- making one), you can still Have Fun With Autoboot
- by playing with the Rebootable Ramdrive.
-
- Read about Autoboot in the Autoboot1.3 drawer.
-
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- 1.3o6 Workbench - Some New things on Workbench:
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- C/
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- Lots of enhancements for your CLI enjoyment.
- In conjunction with assorted magic from some
- other directories, the C directory is proud
- to announce AmigaShell! Resident! Scripts
- without Execute! (Andy was a Very Busy Bee)
- And FastFonts ("FF") by Charlie Heath!
-
- S/
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- New Cli-startup file for every resident cli.
-
- DEVS/
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- New printer.device and drivers
- More drivers are on the Extras disk. Faster
- and full of neat new features. Massive docs
- in the ReadMe:Printer1.3 drawer. And lots
- of example 1.3 printer driver sources!
-
- Ramdrive.device
- Recoverable Ram Drive that you can REBOOT
- off with 1.3 (1.2.1) Kickstart! Under 1.2
- it's still recoverable but not rebootable
- (of course), and under 1.2 you must remount
- it after rebooting. You can only have one
- of these. There's a mountlist entry for it,
- currently called CARD: (CommodoreAmigaRamDrive).
- It used to be called rd0: but since you can
- only have one we thought that was a bad choice.
- If you can think of a better unused name, let
- us know. Mount CARD:, Format it, then if
- you're using 1.3 (1.2.1.) KS, pull your df0:
- disk and CTRL/AMIGA/AMIGA. Nice, eh ?
- (nicer, of course, if you copy some of your
- Workbench in there so you don't Reboot into
- default city).
-
- New Preferences
- Select new printer features and even override
- the type of dump an application has selected.
- Read about it in ReadMe:Workbench1.3 drawer.
-
- L/
- Lots of new handlers and the new FastFileSystem.
- Read about FFS in ReadMe/Workbench1.3.
- Read about new handlers in the Command docs.
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- LIBS/
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- Double precision ieee libraries that can use
- 68881 (coprocessor or peripheral) if one
- is available. Read about IEEE in the ReadMe
- Workbench1.3 drawer. Autodocs are in the
- Autodocs1.3 drawer. New linker .lib's and fd's
- are on the Include.strip disk.
-
- New diskfont.library with two new functions
- for updating fonts directory after changes
- have been made. Autodoc is in the Autodocs1.3
- drawer.
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- SYSTEM/ and UTILITIES/
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- Various enhancements including a new More that
- can be run and works with our pipe, and a
- new Graphicdump with built-in size options.
-
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- 1.3g4 Extras - AmigaBasic is unchanged. PCUtils are unchanged.
- Some utilities are unchanged. But you'll notice
- that many of the printer drivers and keymaps have
- been moved here to make room for new utilities
- and handlers on Workbench. This is where the new
- Adobe fonts will probably be on final Extras1.3.
-
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- ReadMe1.3g4 - All docs which are currently available for new
- 1.3 features (except for command docs which are
- supplied on paper). Docs for ieee, FFS, Prefs,
- Autoboot, Printer. Some IEEE examples and lots
- of examples printer drivers. Autodocs which have
- changed for 1.3. Electronic bug report form.
-
-
- Include1.3g4 - Commented C and assembler Include files
-
- Include.strip1.3g4 - Stripped Includes, fd files, offset lists,
- startups. Amiga.lib, debug.lib, new parallel
- ddebug.lib, and new linker lib's for diskfont
- and ieee. Alink, atom, and stripa.
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- 5. ADVANCE NOTICE OF NEW 1.3 WORKBENCH LICENSE
-
- When final Workbench1.3 is released, a new 1.3 Workbench
- license will be required for distribution of any Workbench1.3
- programs or files with your commercial products. You will
- not be able to distribute Workbench1.3 programs or files
- under non-1.3 license. Just so you can plan ahead, the
- new license requires the following copyright both on your
- disk label and in your documentation, and the listed trademark
- notices if you use any of the trademarked words. In addition,
- the 1.3 Workbench license will include an Adobe Fonts license.
- If you distribute any of the special Adobe Fonts on your disk,
- you will also have need Adobe copyrights on your disk and docs.
- I don't have a copy of the Adobe license yet, but here are the
- Commodore-Amiga copyrights and trademarks that will be required.
-
- Copyrights and Trademarks
-
- 1. The following Copyright notices are required on the label
- affixed to the medium containing the Program and in the documentation
- accompanying the Product:
-
-
- Amiga Workbench TM Version 1.3
- Copyright 1985,1986,1987,1988 Commodore-Amiga, Inc. All Rights Reserved
-
-
- 2. Trademarks
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-
-
- Amiga - Must be followed by a standard Registered Trademark
- notation ( an "R" in a circle ) and there
- must be a footnote appearing in the copy stating
- "Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore-Amiga,
- Inc."
-
- AmigaDOS - Must be followed by a "TM" notation and there
- should be a footnote appearing in the copy stating
- "AmigaDOS is a trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc."
-
- Kickstart - Must be followed by a "TM" notation and there
- should be a footnote appearing in the copy stating
- "Kickstart is a trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc."
-
- Intuition - Must be followed by a "TM" notation and there
- should be a footnote appearing in the copy stating
- "Intuition is a trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc."
-
- Workbench - Must be followed by a "TM" notation and there
- should be a footnote appearing in the copy stating
- "Workbench is a trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc."
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