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- Press the HELP key or click the HELP button to return to the article and
- page you were previously on.
-
- Keyboard control (PAL or NTSC systems)
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-
- Left Cursor = Previous Page
- Right cursor = Next Page
- P = Goto Page
- Up cursor = Previous Article
- Down cursor = Next Article
- A = Goto Article
- S = Search
- Help key = Help file
- Space Bar = Contents
- M = Music/Samples
- G = Glossary
- F = Figs (pictures)
- B = Load Book Mark
- SHIFT + B = Save Book Mark
- C = Text Colour
- SHIFT + C = Background Colour
- F10 = Print
- ESC key = Exit
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- GUI control (PAL only)
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-
- At the bottom of the screen there are two rows of icons these icons are
- as follows.
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- Top row from left to right.
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- 1 Previous Page
- 2 Next Page
- 3 Goto Page
- 4 Previous Article
- 5 Next Article
- 6 Goto Article
- 7 Search
- 8 Help
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- Bottom row from left to right.
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- 9 Contents
- 10 Music
- 11 Glossary
- 12 Fig
- 13 Book Mark (Right mouse button to SAVE, left to LOAD)
- 14 Colours (Right mouse button for background, left for text)
- 15 Print
- 16 Exit
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- Press the HELP key or click the HELP button to return to the article and
- page you were previously on.
-
- What the options are and what they do.
-
- 1 Previous Page
- Showes the previous page if avaiable.
-
- 2 Next Page
- Showes the next page if avaiable.
-
- 3 Goto Page
- When selected a window will open asking for a page number to be entered.
- Enter the number of the page you wish to go to and press return. If the
- page is avaiable it will then be displayed.
-
- 4 Previous Article
- Loads and displays the previous article if avaiable.
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- 5 Next Article
- Loads and displays the next article if avaiable.
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- 6 Goto Article
- When selected a window will open asking for a article number to be
- entered.Enter the number of the article you wish to go to and press
- return. If the article is avaiable it will then be displayed.
-
- 7 Search
- When selected a window will open asking for a search string to be
- entered. Type a word you wish to search for and press return. The
- program will then search the current article for your entered word. When
- found the page with the word in will be displayed and the the word will
- be highlighted. The search will then wait for a keypress to continue the
- search or you can press ESC to abort.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: The search is case sensitive
-
- 8 Help
- This will bring up this help file. Once loaded you can exit the help
- file by selecting the Help option again. This will then return you back
- to the article and page you were on before you selected help. You can
- also exit by using the goto article or contents etc.
-
- 9 Contents
- This options loads and displays the contents page. The contents displays
- the articles in the current issue of Miggybyte.
- Example:-
-
- [3] THE MADNESS SPEAKS........................................MADNESS
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- The number in the box is the article number. The writing after it is the
- title of the article and the tag/name at the end of the line shows who
- wrote it.
- To view an article move the mouse pointer over the line it is on. The
- line should then become highlighted. Then click a mouse button to load
- and view that article. Another way is to select the Goto Article option
- and enter the number corresponding to that article, which will then be
- loaded and displayed.
-
- 10 Music
- This option toggles between sound FX and a music mod(s).
-
- 11 Glossary
- This option will load up and display a Glossary of terms used in the
- computer world.
- WARNING: This file is huge so it may take some time to load and unpack.
-
- 12 Fig
- If when reading an article you come accross [PRESS FIG BUTTTON] then
- select the fig option. Once activated the screen will be cleared and a
- FIG/Picture will then be displayed. If this option is activated at any
- other time it will be ignored.
-
- 13 BookMark
- When you select to save a bookmark the program will note what article and
- page number you are on and save this out as a data file to the disk.
- Please make sure the disk is write enabled if you wish to use this
- option.
-
- When you select to load a bookmark the program will look on the disk for
- the bookmark file. If found it will load it in and then load and display
- the article at the correct page that the bookmark points to.
-
- 14 Colours
- Simple, select the text colour option to change the text colour and
- select the background colour option to change the background colour.
-
-
- 15 Print
- When selected this will dump the full article to your printer.
-
- 16 Exit
- When selected the Mag will be closed and you will be returned to the
- operating system
-
-
- Press the Help key or click the help button to return to the article and
- page you were previously on.
-
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