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- How to make a Niall disk
-
- Due to problems with the size of Niall (Non-Intelligent-Amos-Language-
- Learner) here is a list of instructions to get this extremely
- interesting program working on its own, seperate disk. Of course, you
- need a blank disk to do this.
- The proceadure works on all Amigas, though if you have more
- than one floppy disk drive it will be considerably faster.
-
- 1) Making a copy of Workbench
- -----------------------------
-
- First, boot up with your working Workbench disk, and click once on its
- icon. Then select the duplicate option from the menu bar at the top of
- the screen. Select Ok when prompted to insert the SOURCE disk - you're
- making a copy of Workbench, and it's already in the drive.
- When prompted for a TO disk, put in the disk that you want
- Niall working on. After a while, you'll see to Workbench icons, one
- with the words 'Copy of' in front of the Workbench title. Click on it
- once, select the rename option from the top right menu, and press the
- DEL key to get rid of the words 'Copy of Workbench', and put in the
- word 'Niall' instead so that you don't get confused as to which disk
- is which! Don't forgot to press RETURN.
-
- 2) Making space on the Niall disk
- ---------------------------------
-
- Reboot with the Niall disk in the floppy drive. Double click on the
- Niall icon, and then double click on the Shell icon. Type:-
-
- cd df0:Utilities
- delete #?
- cd df0:Prefs
- delete #?
- cd df0:
-
- Don't forget to press RETURN after each line (I'll stop saying
- that now, but you should keep on pressing RETURN to enter the line
- into the computer) and carry on to step 3 straight away.
-
- 3) Copying the files from the Coverdisk
- ---------------------------------------
-
- Type in the following commands, with your Niall disk in the drive:-
-
- makedir ram:Niall
- makedir ram:Niall/Amos_system
-
- Now comes some disk swapping for those who have only one disk
- drive. When prompted, put the correct disk into the drive - the
- coverdisk or the Niall disk.
-
- copy from "Coverdisk 18a:ramos" to ram:niall
- copy from "Coverdisk 18a:niall.amos" to ram:niall
- copy from "Coverdisk 18a:example.niall" to ram:niall
- copy all from "Coverdisk 18a:amos_system" to ram:niall/amos_system
-
- Once that's finished (and it only takes a few minutes) there
- will be a version of Niall waiting in ram to be transferred to the
- Niall disk. Carry on straight to step 4.
-
- 4) Copying the files onto the Niall disk
- ----------------------------------------
-
- Make sure that the Niall disk is in the disk drive, and type:-
-
- copy all from ram:niall to niall:
-
- All of the files will be automatically copied onto your Niall
- disk. It only remains to make it autobooting (necessary for readers
- with unexpanded machines - see step 5).
-
- 5) Making the Niall disk autobooting
- ------------------------------------
-
- With the Niall disk still in the drive, type the following:-
-
- delete s/startup-sequence
- ed s/startup-sequence
-
- The computer will display something like "making new file".
- Type in the following:-
-
- :ramos niall.amos
-
- This is the only command that the Niall disk will perform when
- it starts up - it will run ramos (the AMOS run time system) and then
- load in niall.amos, plus a few other files.
-
- Finally, to make ed save the new startup sequence, press the
- following sequence of keys:-
-
- ESC x RETURN
-
- After the disk light has gone out, try booting with the Niall
- disk in the drive. If you've followed these steps correctly, then it
- should all work - I know because I tested them on a single drive,
- unexpanded A500.
-
- Finally
- -------
- That's all folks! If you would have rather had a simple to use
- Niall program that ran straight from the coverdisk, something else
- would have had to go. And yes, the effort is worth it - how many
- computers have you heard of that attempt to talk in English?
-
-
- Pat McDonald
-