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From: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: N.U.W.Q. (New User With Questions)
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Date: 7 Feb 91 22:33:18 GMT
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zz96sr@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Steve Rusk) writes:



>     Here's my story......I've been a C64 user for about 7 years now.
>I just "inherited" an Amiga 2000 with a 2090 hard drive controller,
Good for you ! :-)

>copy at local dealers.
Any dealer oughta have one. If they won't actually give you a disk, then
they could at least copy a virgin workbench disk onto you hosed disk.
You should also have an "extras" disk.

>     1.  I hear of talk about a C64 Emulator for the Amiga.  If there is
There are a couple of commercial ones. Iv'e never actually seen
one running, but Iv'e heard that they don't work very well - They run
BASIC, buts thats about it.

There is a publicly available one, available via FTP (I don't happen
to remeber WHERE however)

>     2.  Is there documentation/help on what is on the WorkBench disk?
>Something like what the "s", "c", "l", etc. directories are for.
Sorta - check the users manual. If you didn't get one, goto
a bookstore or an Amiga dealer, and look for beginners manuals.

>     3.  What should or should not be in the startup-sequence file?
The startup-sequence is whats it says - a list of things for the 
computer to do when you turn it on, or reboot it. Usually, it
sets up things the way you like, mounts your harddisk (mount == makes
it available for you to use. This happens automatically to the
floppy drives and most harddrive controllers, but not the 2090)
Most beginnger can leave it alone.

>     4.  Does anybody have a layman's explanation of "assign"?
Assign gives a name (that you choose) to a file or device. Once
you "assign myname: something", then referencing myname: is
the same as referencing "something".
Its more complicated than that, but that is the basic idea.

>     5.  What can be safely eliminated from the WorkBench disk?
Anything you don't use :-)
What don't you use? Hmmm. Well, if you don't use a fancy wordprocessor
that lets you pick fonts, then you can delete the contents of
FONTS:. A few utility programs that you may not use, like SetMap, Clock
etc etc.
Since youv'e got a hard disk, one would think that you could
leave you workbench disk intack, and put all non workbench
software and files on the hard disk.