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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

3430.0. "Novice need tutorial info" by CGHUB::MILLER_C (Chuck - Don't Worry, be HOPpy!) Sun Feb 04 1990 23:06

    Hello folks.  I am new to the Amiga Notesfile.  You folks are greatly
    responsible for me avoiding the expense of a Mac.  Now that I have
    joined the ranks, I have a new set of challenges.  I have found
    that the documentation provided by the CBM folks sucks pondwater.
    I am in a learning curve which seems to be straight up.
    
    Can you folks recommend a helpful book or disk tutorial for a novice
    Amiga User?  I did a title search on the string "tutor" and found
    nothing to help me.  
    
    To date most of my discoveries have been accidental.  It is fun,
    but it is not always productive.  I have used CPM and MSDOS for
    Years and have always known enough to allow me to do housekeeping
    functions such as creating directories, doing directories, editing,
    copying etc.  I'm having a difficult time understanding the workings
    behind the Workbench.  Where is a file?  How does one get in a drawer?
     Where the hell do drawers come from? Where do Icons come from?
    
    I want something, a book, a disk, a video tape, that will walk me
    through this step by step.  At this point, I believe that this mundane
    approach will actually save me time versus what I am doing today.
    
    Please advise.
    
    Thanks,
    Chuck

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3430.1		LEDS3::ACCIARDI		`Mon Feb 05 1990 01:45`	18
	Try these... 'The Amiga Companion' by Rob Peck 'AmigaDOS Inside & Out' by Abacus Books 'Amiga for Beginners' by Abacus books '1st Book of the Amiga' by Compute! Books '2nd Book of the Amiga' by Compute! Books 'Beginners Guide to the Amiga' by Compute! Books 'Using AmigaDOS' by Compute! Books Your dealer may have these books or he may be able to get them for you. If not, look in any issue of AmigaWorld magazine and find an ad for Creative Computers, the largest Amiga dealer in the USA. They stock every periodical, tape, etc ever made for the Amiga. Ed.
3430.2	Amiga Heaven at Greystone plaza	ZEKE::DUDMAN		`Mon Feb 05 1990 05:05`	9
	Hello Chuck, Just for your information, 'System Eyes' (if you haven't heard about it in this notes file yet is loaded with Amiga software/hardware/all the public domain disks/and books you could need) on 101a/amherst st in Nashua in Greystone plaza by Ames/Zayre has all of the Abacus Amiga Library books. If you have ANY questions on usage ask the salespeople they're sometimes life savers. Hope it helps! Jeff
3430.3	Don't forget the AmigaDOS Manual	KALI::PLOUFF	Anarchists of the world, unite!	`Mon Feb 05 1990 13:14`	12
	Don't forget the 'AmigaDOS Manual' by Commodore. Yes, that's right, documentation for the Command Line Interface must be purchased separately! Latest edition I've seen is for version 1.2. That plus the "Enhancer Manual" which came with your computer (presumably) should give you lots of information on digging beneath the Workbench. Many people, myself included, have reservations about the Abacus books. They treat the Amiga as a machine to be hacked with at will, an attitude which encourages a) uncooperative programs and b) things which will break when the next revision of the operating system is released. Wes
3430.4		BAGELS::BRANNON	Dave Brannon	`Tue Feb 06 1990 00:16`	11
	I've found it easier to just think of Workbench as a hack :-) on top of a Command Line interface. Those icons are just there to make it easier to startup applications and for harddisk users with lots of files. The icons are just those files ending in .info that clutter up your directories when you are using the CLI. No fancy stuff so far, like the Mac's resource & data forks, etc. The next version of the os, which might be called 1.4, is the one where the Workbench gets redone (along with lots of other things according to rumors). -Dave