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From: davidb@utpsych.toronto.edu (David Brodbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Neophyte's Blues
Keywords: Amiga 500, four days old, cool, now what?
Message-ID: <1989Apr28.174425.7221@utpsych.toronto.edu>
Date: 28 Apr 89 17:44:25 GMT
References: <10251@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: davidb@psych.toronto.edu (David Brodbeck)
Organization: Psychology, U. of Toronto
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In article <10251@ihlpb.ATT.COM> mrios@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Rios) writes:
>(...is there a line-eater for the Amiga?...)
>
>I just (really, JUST...four days ago...) bought an Amiga 500 and a 1084S monitor
>from my friendly dealer, trading in a C128, 1571, and monitor in the deal.  This
>is one SWIFT machine!
>
>So...I have access to the Fred Fish compilation, picked up Zork Zero (yay!), and
>am hacking my way through CLI.  What now?  Is there anything that you'd wished
>you'd known when you first bought an Amiga?  What can you tell a neophyte (to
>the Amiga, not computers) that he might find helpful?
>
>-- 
>	Michael Rios		attih!ihlpb!mrios	AT&T Secret Police
>
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	First of all get an AmigaDOS manual.  I too had to basically hack
my way through the CLI since there was no documentation bundled with the
1000 (that I got in November of 86) that dealt with DOS.  There was that
cute tutorial, what ever happened to that?  I digress, I had to teach
myself AmigaDOS which was,   well,  A pain to say the least.  There is
some stuff in the Introduction to the A500 book about the CLI and it
could be helpful.  

	Welcome to the club!  Only Amiga makes it possible
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