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- This is the V4 Beta release (0.9) of "Oberon for Amiga" of ETH Zurich.
-
- "Oberon for Amiga" requires at least an MC68020 and a minimum of 1MByte of
- free memory. Floating point calculations (types REAL and LONGREAL)
- additionally require an FPU. We have tested it on WB3.0. This version requires
- WB2.0 or better, but the screen mode requester will be available only with
- WB3.0 or better. Screen depth, height and width can now be changed in WB2.0
- too, using the System.ChangeMode command with arguments. System.ShowMode will
- supply them for the current setting. Just edit, and apply ChangeMode.
- "Oberon for Amiga" works best with 8 colors (3 planes).
-
- NOTE: Oberon for Amiga doesn't work on XFH file systems.
-
- "Oberon for Amiga" is distributed as an lha archive. The archive contents have
- to be copied into a common directory (e.g. Work:Oberon). This directory should
- be put in your command search path. "Oberon for Amiga" is started using the
- Oberon icon.
-
- Example for an installation:
-
- 1. Change to the directory where you want to install Oberon
- 2. Insert the diskette of "Oberon for Amiga" in your floppy drive
- 3. Extract the contents of the archive file into the current directory
- lha -a x df0:Oberon.lha
-
- Note: If you already installed Oberon for Amiga 0.6, you should use a new directory,
- as this beta uses subdirectories for different kind of files.
-
- If you installed Oberon for Amiga 0.7, you should first delete the contents
- of the System directory, as now these files are split over more directories.
-
- Don't store your private files into one of the subdirectories, but rather
- use the top directory, or a separate one, which you can add in the
- assign in the Oberon script.
-
- When started for the first time, "Oberon for Amiga" will ask for the preferred
- screen mode and resolution (only WB3.0 or better). This information will be
- stored in the environment variable Oberon4Amiga. The command System.ChangeMode
- can be used to change the value at a later time.
-
- Now you should read the file Release.Notes.Text, to find out what has changed
- since the last release or Welcome.Text if you use the system for the first time.
-
- If "Oberon for Amiga" gets out of control (e.g. because of a looping command),
- use the KillOberon icon to terminate it. The Amiga OS has problems if a process
- is interrupted, while it is waiting for a message reply. To avoid problems,
- Ctrl-C refuses to work, when it detects a possible critical situation.
-
- System.Quit terminates the Oberon process. It is the normal way to leave
- "Oberon for Amiga".
-
- Please mail any bugs encountered to ludwig@inf.ethz.ch, to which you can
- also direct questions.
-
- claudio / stefan 6-Apr-1995
-
- PS: Ralf Degner contributed an improved version of the compiler back-end.
-