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- 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...
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- Okay, elemental to the process, especially if you're a True Beginner, is
- to call up one of the gang:
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- HT (408's) 737-0900 (call HT after 6/Sun)
- Institute 353-3802
- DigitBox 258-5463
- Rancho 683-2534
- Homebase 988-4004
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- FAUG (415's) 595-2479
- RSVP 659-9169
- JC 961-7250
- Addicts 222-9416
- Records Dept 426-0470
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- 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".
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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...
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- ...but you can't. Sorry, tough luck, kid.
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- I'm not shareware.
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