TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ............................................................. 13 Basics ................................................................................... 17 System characteristics ....................................................... 19 Autoconfiguration ............................................................... 19 Multitasking ........................................................................ 20 Exchanging information ..................................................... 20 Real-time system ................................................................ 21 Compatibility ...................................................................... 21 Graphical user interface ..................................................... 22 SYSTEM STANDARDS ................................................... 23 Keyboard ............................................................................. 23 Mouse .................................................................................. 24 Screen .................................................................................. 25 Windows .............................................................................. 27 Pull-down menu .................................................................. 29 Icons ..................................................................................... 35 Buttons ................................................................................ 38 Text fields ............................................................................ 40 Sliders and scroll buttons ................................................... 45 List ....................................................................................... 46 Keyboard shortcuts ............................................................. 47 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS On-line Help ........................................................................ 48 "Drag & drop" ...................................................................... 49 Installation program ........................................................... 50 FIRST STEPS ................................................................... 53 Starting ............................................................................... 55 Installation on hard disk .................................................... 58 Preparing the disk .............................................................. 58 Creating partitions on the disk .......................................... 64 Formatting .......................................................................... 70 System installation ............................................................. 73 FURTHER STEPS ........................................................... 79 Installer ............................................................................... 79 WORKBENCH .................................................................. 81 Basic operations .................................................................. 83 Window display mode ......................................................... 93 Icon properties .................................................................... 98 Other operations ................................................................. 108 Workbench title bar ............................................................ 111 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS BASIC SETTINGS ............................................................ 113 Changing the backgrounds ................................................. 113 Mouse pointer .................................................................... 115 System sounds .................................................................... 117 System time ........................................................................ 119 Serial port ........................................................................... 120 Facilities .............................................................................. 122 Clipboard ............................................................................. 125 MEMORY ........................................................................... 127 Memory structure ............................................................... 129 Ram Disk ............................................................................. 130 System disk ......................................................................... 134 ¹SYS:º device ....................................................................... 134 Data structure ..................................................................... 134 Environment ....................................................................... 141 Temporary files ................................................................... 141 DEVICE DRIVERS .......................................................... 143 Basic operations .................................................................. 145 Driver modifications ........................................................... 150 Multiple devices in a single file .......................................... 156 Untypical disk controller .................................................... 157 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS BOOT SECTOR ................................................................ 161 Kickstart .............................................................................. 163 Bootblock ............................................................................. 165 Rigid Disk Block ................................................................. 171 STARTUP SEQUENCE ................................................... 177 Boot menu ........................................................................... 180 Fault diagnosis .................................................................... 190 Your own floppy disk .......................................................... 194 Kickstart update ................................................................. 196 DATA FORMATS ............................................................. 201 Datatypes structure ............................................................ 204 New datatypes installation ................................................ 205 Special requirements .......................................................... 208 Data transfer ....................................................................... 210 MS-DOS drives ................................................................... 212 FAT file system ................................................................... 215 Macintosh drives ................................................................. 221 NTFS file system ................................................................ 223 EXT file systems ................................................................. 225 8 TABLE OF CONTENTS FONTS ................................................................................ 227 Font types ............................................................................ 229 New fonts installation ........................................................ 231 Vector fonts conversion ...................................................... 237 Vector fonts size changing .................................................. 238 TrueType fonts .................................................................... 239 Keyboard map changing ..................................................... 244 New fonts in the system ..................................................... 246 ¹FixFontsº ............................................................................ 248 DISPLAY MODES ............................................................ 251 Display mode settings ........................................................ 254 Changing the monitor driver ............................................. 258 Overscan mode settings ...................................................... 259 Various monitor drivers ..................................................... 262 Display mode selection window ......................................... 265 New display modes ............................................................. 266 Color palette settings .......................................................... 268 Color palette management ................................................. 272 ICONS ................................................................................ 275 MagicWB ............................................................................. 277 New Icons ............................................................................ 288 9 TABLE OF CONTENTS ¹Class Actº package ............................................................ 289 Icons editing ........................................................................ 305 The icon type ....................................................................... 310 Using the Clipboard ............................................................ 310 Other graphics operations .................................................. 311 Disk operations ................................................................... 313 Settings ............................................................................... 315 Default icons ....................................................................... 316 COMMODITIES ............................................................... 319 TEXT ................................................................................... 333 Text viewers .......................................................................