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The Complete Amiga 500+ User Guide

By Peter Hutchison

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2016

Revised: 23/10/2016

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Summary of Contents for Amiga 500+

Page 1: ...The Complete Amiga 500 User Guide By Peter Hutchison 8 2016 Revised 23 10 2016...

Page 2: ...3 Workbench 2 1 Page 19 Beyond Workbench 2 x Page 19 Adding more Memory to the A500 Page 20 Adding a CD or DVD ROM drive to the A500 Page 20 Upgrading the Processor Page 21 Upgrading the Kickstart and...

Page 3: ...at provides the Sound and Graphics The new A500 Plus now supports the new Kickstart 2 0 and Workbench 2 0 upgrade from Kickstart Workbench 1 3 and the new Enhanced Chipset ESC with up to 2MB of Chip R...

Page 4: ...socket on the top left hand at the back of the Amiga Plug the other end into a power socket but DO NOT switch on yet If you have a monitor plug the monitor cable into the Video socket if you have a TV...

Page 5: ...the Insert Disk screen below Figure 2 You can then insert either a Workbench disk or any other bootable disk such as a game into the floppy drive on the right hand side of the Amiga called DF0 Disk F...

Page 6: ...the left mouse button click once on Continue Once the read operation is complete it will ask you to Put DESTINATION TO disk in drive DF0 Press the eject button to remove your original Workbench disk...

Page 7: ...are also accessible via keyboard shortcuts using the left Amiga key and a Letter or character shown in brackets 1 1 Workbench menu 1 1 1 Backdrop B Turns the backdrop window on or off which surrounds...

Page 8: ...8 1 1 4 Update All Reload all the icons and redraw them...

Page 9: ...N Create a new drawer or directory or folder in the current window 1 2 2 Open Parent Open the parent window of the current window 1 2 3 Close K Close the current window 1 2 4 Update Update icons in th...

Page 10: ...order using same format as Name with the newest files at the top 1 2 9 4 Size Display files in size order using same format as Name with the smallest files at the top 1 3 Icons 1 3 1 Open O This open...

Page 11: ...s or prepares a disk to be used to store files and drawers 1 3 11 Empty Trash Empties the content of the Trashcan folder on the boot disk 1 4 Tools 1 4 1 ResetWB Reloads Workbench and redraws the scre...

Page 12: ...files or run programs To do this move the pointer over the desired icon and in quick succession without moving the pointer click on the LMB twice This should open the icon 2 2 3 Dragging This techniqu...

Page 13: ...or not the date and whether to set an alarm for something 3 1 1 2 Display This program can view pictures in the Amiga IFF ILBM format It can also display multiple pictures like a slideshow by selecti...

Page 14: ...ator Here is a simple calculator you can press the buttons to enter values or use the keypad The symbols are CA Cancel All CE Cancel Entry Multiply Divide Add Subtract Decimal point Backspace Change s...

Page 15: ...lays a depressed icon rather than a raised icon the shadow around the edge makes the difference 3 2 5 KeyShow This displays a graphical representation of the keyboard on the screen with the characters...

Page 16: ...oppy disk or a tape device It can backup using the Archive bit file patterns date or file size 3 3 Commodities Drawer 3 3 1 ClickToFront This allows users to click anywhere in a window and click to br...

Page 17: ...Cycle Window F5 Zip Window 3 3 7 CrossDos 2 1 only This is part of the PC Disk driver and this commodity controls text file options for Text Filtering and Text Translation The DosDrivers for PC0 and P...

Page 18: ...s by default it is at the top left The Test button applies the changes to the current point The Clear button will erase the drawing area The Reset Color will apply the default color palette to the def...

Page 19: ...ng one or more of the nine black handles to the desired size 3 4 5 Printer The Printer preference selects the printer driver from Devs Printers and sets other options Printer Port Parallel Serial Pape...

Page 20: ...de This preference sets the monitor driver display mode resolution and colour depth for the Workbench screen 3 4 7 Time This sets the current date and time and saves in a battery backed clock if provi...

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Page 22: ...as a double click You can use the Show and Test double click buttons below to check it Key Repeat Delay Delay before a pressed key becomes repeated again Key Repeat Rate Determines how often a key is...

Page 23: ...hite Smoothing Smooths diagonal lines by certain dithering techniques except Floyd Steinburg Left Offset How far from the left edge the output starts Center Picture Centres picture in the middle of th...

Page 24: ...es to customize your Workbench desktop Pattern Workbench Windows Test Tests your pattern or picture Clear Clear drawing area using selected colour Undo Undo the last change made Color Palette List of...

Page 25: ...ew PrinterPS Preferences for Postscript printers New Sound Preferences 5 Beyond Workbench 2 x Workbench has been upgraded four times since 2 x 3 0 3 1 3 5 and 3 9 Workbench 3 5 and 3 9 have enhanced W...

Page 26: ...aphics and sound and Fast RAM memory which is used only by the Processor The Amiga A500 comes with 1MB of Chip memory You can increase RAM by adding memory via a new memory board into the expansion sl...

Page 27: ...he expansion slot but this can be difficult if its already occupied by a hard drive unit Commodore produced the A590 CD drive IDE expansion is rare on the A500 compared to later models Installing the...

Page 28: ...040 68060 or PPC processors are not supported Typical boards include 8 1 68000 Accelerators ACA 500 It has a 14 MHz 68000 processor and 2MB of RAM and mass storage controller for CF Compact Flash card...

Page 29: ...9 1991 No PCMCIA or IDE hard disk support 2 05 37 300 1991 No support for HDDs 40 MB 2 05 37 350 1992 Lastest bug free version 9 2 The Amiga A500 can be upgraded to latest Kickstart and Workbench as f...

Page 30: ...cuit board protected by a shield is now in full view f The operating system ROM ICs are labelled and located at position U6A under and U6B upper just at the blank of the shield The old ROM chips shoul...

Page 31: ...096 colours and EHB Extra half bright for 64 colours Expansion slot for external Hard Drives or CD drive Motorola 68000 CPU Main Central Processor Kickstart ROM Chip The A500 had one 512K ROM chip tha...

Page 32: ...or you can use CF Compact Flash cards as Hard Disks Workbench 2 x can use up to 4GB Hard disks due to limitations of the 32 bit filesystem and the scsi device that controls hard disks You can use larg...

Page 33: ...lp window on how to use HDToolbox Click on Partition Drive and you should get a screen something like this Click on New Partition to create a new partition in the empty space at the top of the screen...

Page 34: ...to update Workbench If you do not have an Install disk you can manually install Workbench by opening a Shell window insert the workbench disk on DF0 and type COPY DF0 TO DH0 ALL CLONE QUIET This will...

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