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About This Manual
This manual is designed to let you
set
up and
start
using your Amiga 500 with
a
minimum of effort. The manual includes nine
chapters, a set of appendices
,
a
glossary and an index
.
Here's a brief description of
each
part
of
this manual:
Chapter I, Introduction
,
summarizes
the
general
features
and capabilities of
the
Amiga 500
.
Chapter
2,
Setting
Up
the Amiga
500, shows
how to put
your
Amiga together. If
you're
using an Amiga for the first time, read Chapter
3,
Getting
Started,
to learn
the basics.
Chapter 4, Using the Workbench, describes the nuts
and
bolts
of
using Work-
bench-to
familiarize yourself
with
elements
like icons
, menus,
and
using the
mouse
.
Chapter 5
,
Workbench Tools
,
tells
about
the useful tools
available
through the
Workbench disk, including Amiga's built-in clock,
calculator,
notepad,
icon
editor, speech
synthesizer,
graphic
dump,
and
international key map
selector.
Chapter 6, Using Preferences,
explains
how to
customize your
Amiga by
changing
the
settings on
the Preferences utility
of
Workbench.
Chapter 7, AmigaDOS and the CLI,
explains
how to use the
Amiga
Disk
Operating System by typing in
commands
directly
,
via
the
Command
Line
Interface
(CLI)
.
Chapter
8, Adding to
the
Amiga
500, describes printers,
extra
memory
,
di sk
drives, modems
and other
hardware peripherals
available
for
your Amiga
.
Chapter
9
,
Caring for
the Amiga 500, gives advice on
how
to keep your Amiga
in
good
working
order.
Appendix
A, Technical Reference
,
contains
technical
specifications,
diagrams
of input/output connectors,
theory
of operation,
memory map
and a
block
diagram.
Appendix B, AmigaDOS Reference,
contains summaries of
AmigaDOS CLI
and
screen
editor
(ED)
commands, as well
as a
list
of
Amiga error numbers
and
what
to do when
you get
the
errors.
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