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The Complete Amiga 4000 User Guide

by Peter Hutchison © 2007

Revised: 21/08/2007

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Summary of Contents for Amiga A4000

Page 1: ...The Complete Amiga 4000 User Guide by Peter Hutchison 2007 Revised 21 08 2007...

Page 2: ...rkbench 3 0 Page 19 Adding more Memory to the A4000 Page 19 Upgrading the Processor Page 20 Upgrading Expansion on the A4000 Page 22 Upgrading the Kickstart and Workbench Page 23 The Motherboard in de...

Page 3: ...with 2Mb RAM a single 880K floppy drive with support for three more floppy drives Zorro cards and a Custom Chipset that provides the Sound and Graphics The Amiga runs the Operating System called Amiga...

Page 4: ...oystick onto Port 2 next to it The stereo speakers can be plugged into the Left and Right speaker sockets in Audio sockets at the back The speakers can be either stand alone ones or part of the monito...

Page 5: ...d move the mouse down the menu and select Copy Figure 3 It will say Put the SOURCE disk FROM disk in drive DF0 remove the disk from the floppy drive and make sure it is your original Workbench disk at...

Page 6: ...name For example typing NewShell will open a Command Shell window 1 1 3 Redraw All This redraws all the icons on the desktop 1 1 4 Update All Reload all the icons and redraw them 1 1 5 Last Message Di...

Page 7: ...n Display files using Icons only 1 2 9 2 Name Display files using Name and displays protection flags size and date and time last changed 1 2 9 3 Date Display files in date order using same format as N...

Page 8: ...shcan folder on the boot disk 1 4 Tools 1 4 1 ResetW B Reloads W orkbench and redraws the screen 2 The Mouse On the Amiga mouse there are two buttons the Left Mouse Button LMB and the Right Mouse Butt...

Page 9: ...und the screen or resizing windows Select an icon with a single click now keep the LMB down and move the pointer the icon will now be dragged with the pointer If you let go of the pointer the icon wil...

Page 10: ...ss 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 sign Equals The Calculator Tape window can di...

Page 11: ...between interlaced and non interlaced screen modes Used primarily for video recording and genlocking 3 2 8 Printfiles This program allows you to print text files from W orkbench To use it to select th...

Page 12: ...anged Move it to the Startup drawer to autorun it on boot up 3 3 3 MouseBlanker This will blank the mouse pointer if not in use 3 3 4 AutoPoint This allows you to select a window by just moving the mo...

Page 13: ...will be lost on next reboot 3 4 1 Font This selects the default fonts for W orkbench Icon Text System default text and Screen text 3 4 2 Locale This sets the current language country and time zone inf...

Page 14: ...s Margins Image Shading Dithering Graphics Scaling Aspect Scaling Centering 3 4 5 Sound This preference can change preference for sounds when W orkbench has an error You have the option of Flashing th...

Page 15: ...ize 3 4 7 Printer The Printer preference selects the printer driver from Devs Printers and sets other options Printer Port Parallel Serial Print Pitch Pica Elite Fine Print Spacing 6 8 LPI Print Quali...

Page 16: ...mouse speed when you move it around Double click delay Delay between clicks before it s accepted as a double click You can use the Show and Test double click buttons below to check in Key Repeat Delay...

Page 17: ...es or diagrams using a printer See Printer preferences Dithering Ordered Halftone Floyd Steinburg Scaling Fraction Integer Image Positive Negative Aspect Horizontal Vertical Share Black W rite Grey Sc...

Page 18: ...error checking Bits Char Number of bits used for data Stop bits Number of bits used at the end of data 3 4 14 W BPattern W orkbench pattern preferences can display specific patterns or pictures to cu...

Page 19: ...ectory Opus 6 which has a feature rich interface with more customisation than before and much easier to use There are many more libraries and programs too numerous to mention which can enhance the W o...

Page 20: ...udes an MMU and FPU Hardital Powerchanger Supports the 25 or 40MHz 68040 but does not support extra ram The 040 includes an MMU and FPU Macrosystem W arpEngine Supports the 28 33 or 40MHz 68040 and ca...

Page 21: ...60 and can have upto 128Mb of Fast RAM using 4 slots for Fastpage The 040 includes an MMU and FPU This card also has a fast SCSI 2 connector as well for peripherals Phase 5 Cyberstorm Mk II Supports t...

Page 22: ...sboard supports upto 4 Zorro 3 slots 4 PCI slots 2 1 compliant and 1 video slot AGA compliant There are two versions one for desktop and one for tower A wide range of drivers for many cards exist incl...

Page 23: ...eplate The faceplate has several plastic tabs that hold it to the metal chassis Squeezing the tabs and pushing them through the chassis holes will release the faceplate You may need a small pair of pl...

Page 24: ...their correct marking and position Press firmly into place W ARNING Be cautious not to bend pins 4 The installation is now complete Reassembling see The C Amiga A4000 User s Guide 1 Reassemble the sy...

Page 25: ...d with VLSI on it Keyboard MPU The keyboard controller ship Motorola 68EC020 Main Central Processor surprisingly one of the smallest chips Kickstart ROM Chips The A1200 had two 256K ROM chips that hel...

Page 26: ...ternal DF1 and DF2 External DF0 and DF3 J850 Enable DSACK OFF Required if CPU is 020 Requires U860 and U152 ON No DSACK J852 RAM SIMM Size 1 2 2 or 4 MB SIMMs 2 3 1 MB SIMMs J212 Video type 1 2 NTSC 2...

Page 27: ...ckstart Software a Use a SoftKicker program to load old Kickstart into memory e g Skick b Use Disk to Hard disk programs such as JST and W HDLoad to copy the games to hard disk and emulate the older s...

Page 28: ...omething like this screen T It should display entry s for all hard disks found If no entries are shown then you need to change the device name for the SCSI_DEVICE_NAME in the Tooltypes in the Icon Inf...

Page 29: ...sh The Advanced Options will display the actual Cylinder numbers for you for each partition useful in case of disaster recovery and want to create partitions exactly as before Click OK when done W hen...

Page 30: ...l it may ask for additional disks such as Extras Fonts Locale and Storage 9 Once installation is complete eject any floppy disks and reboot the Amiga 10 W orkbench should load Copy the Installer progr...

Page 31: ...vers move them to Devs DosDrivers so that they are automatically mounted You need something like AmiCDFS or CacheCDFS to provide better CD filesystem support If the CD0 driver does not work then you n...

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