home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Amiga Collections: Scope
/
Scope Disk #078 (199x)(Scope PD)(US)[WB].zip
/
Scope Disk #078 (199x)(Scope PD)(US)[WB].adf
/
Start
/
Intro
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1989-06-29
|
5KB
|
117 lines
All right, all right..you talked me into it. Been a lot of hassles goin'
around lately, been a lot of complaints 'cause Commodore barely mentions
the startup-sequence in their "manual", and the DOS books just give it lip
service. And here's all you new owners out there scratchin' your noggins
over bits, bytes and blocks and not having the foggiest idea what's goin'
on. Well, not to fear, The BenchMaster is here...
Okay, elemental to the process, especially if you're a True Beginner, is
to call up one of the gang:
HT (408's) 737-0900 (call HT after 6/Sun)
Institute 353-3802
DigitBox 258-5463
Rancho 683-2534
Homebase 988-4004
FAUG (415's) 595-2479
RSVP 659-9169
JC 961-7250
Addicts 222-9416
Records Dept 426-0470
download my tutorial Noah's.arc and do everything in it. The tutorial
gets your Bench set up and running proper, whittles the start-seq down to
size, makes mention of most of the files on the Bench so you're more
familiar with them, suggests BBS downloads to incorporate into the workings
of your Amiga and just generally fills in the gaps left by the "manual".
*
For you True Beginners, doing the tutorial before continuing is highly
recommended. If you forge ahead from here (and more power to you!) don't
blame me if you get a little lost. It's just that I can't reduce this mini-
tutorial down to Beginner's terms or 1) it'll be about twenty pages long,
much of it from Noah's.arc, 2)we'll get so bogged down in explanations
we'll completely lose sight of what we're doing, and 3) I'll lose the
interest of all the hard drive owners. So do the tutorial and we'll catch
you right back here.
----------------------------- SNIP WHEN READY ----------------------------
I'll be breaking this file down into three parts. First we'll quickly run
through the stock startup and do a little streamlining, then we'll go over
the floppy startup, then the hard drive startup.
I have a 500 with 1.2, so if you have a different machine and/or version,
well, it should be close but there might be the odd change or two.
Startup speed will be given top priority, of course. No sense in
dallying, right? That, in part, is what's so pitiful about the stock
startup, all that disk time reading all those IF's and ENDIF's and stuff.
I'm head over heels in love with Select, and don't see how any startup can
be without it unless you have other floppies whose startup-sequence says
nothing but "NewCLI" and such. It's just that some mega-graphic programs
won't work if you use even the bytes LoadWB takes up, not to mention that
some sub-routines, like Conman and SetFont don't have "OFF" switches so once
they're run, the memory's gone. Same holds true once you pop open a
Workbench window and use up the icon.lib (from libs dir). So at that point,
if you want max memory, you either boot up a different disk (such a bother),
or delete/rename your present startup-sequence so the machine draws a blank
when it goes to look for it (and then rename it back before re-booting, (SUCH
a bother..). Or use Select, which allows you to pick which startup-sequence
you want, from "NewCLI" and that's it, to RAMBENCH, your regular bench plus a
bellyfull of goodies, commands, libs, scriptfiles, tools, etc in Ram.
*
And now, (sigh) it's time for the inevitable shareware message. Yes,
you'll look back on all you've done when you've accomplished this fine mini-
tutorial and ask yourself how you could have done without it. You'll
realize how many many many painstaking hours that nice Mr. BenchMaster must
have put into his faithful little Amiga just to be able to write you this
valued guide. You will realize just how much your life has been enriched and
you will feel the power and a new sense of selfworthiness as you fire up your
computer with it's hot, slick new custom startup-sequence. You will want to
participate in the wonderful, special spirit of giving..to humbly receive
this untold wealth of words..and offer unto me, in return, your thankful
donation to my righteous, unselfish cause. You will want to send me money
in sheer gratitude and gratefullness for the knowledge and wisdom and joy I
have brought iinto your life. You will WANT to send me money...
...but you can't. Sorry, tough luck, kid.
I'm not shareware.
*