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Operating System Specific Discussions => Amiga OS => Amiga OS -- Development => Topic started by: Principher on January 02, 2006, 02:12:05 PM

Title: Amiga Developer CD and Windows
Post by: Principher on January 02, 2006, 02:12:05 PM

I have recently got my hands on Amiga Developer CD 1.2 but I have a problem reading the documentation.

I would like to read the docs in Windows, but have not been able of finding a proper reader (or converter) for the format. A solution would be to run Amiga Forever on my computer, but the system dies with a blue screen whenever I try that.

So any ideas what to do?

Title: Re: Amiga Developer CD and Windows
Post by: _ThEcRoW on January 02, 2006, 02:27:13 PM

What system/version of windows are you using?.
Also system specs.

Title: Re: Amiga Developer CD and Windows
Post by: motorollin on January 02, 2006, 02:30:51 PM

This (http://www.safalra.com/hypertext/amigaguide/winguide.html) may be a more simple solution, if the documentation is in AmigaGuide format.

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moto

Title: Re: Amiga Developer CD and Windows
Post by: Principher on January 02, 2006, 02:31:59 PM

OS: Windows ME (came with the computer back in the old days :) )

Laptop
Celeron 1GHz
256MB ram
Trident graphics card with 8 MB shared RAM

Amiga Forever used to run on the computer. Probably time for a re-install, but I don´t feel like it right now (have no options for backing up my data).

Title: Re: Amiga Developer CD and Windows
Post by: Principher on January 02, 2006, 02:43:03 PM

Thanks motorollin. Though the files do not have the right file ending they seem to be in Amiga Guide format. So now I can read the docs. Now I just have to get ready for some coding before I come back near my Amiga :)

And thanks to _ThEcRoW for interest in getting my Amiga Forever running. Guess it should work when I have the computer reinstalled.

Title: Re: Amiga Developer CD and Windows
Post by: Steady on January 03, 2006, 05:27:27 PM

In the RKM drawer there should also be a HTML directory that will let you view the documentation with a web browser.

Title: Re: Amiga Developer CD and Windows
Post by: SamuraiCrow on January 03, 2006, 06:10:15 PM

If Principher has the old version he claims he has then it probably only has the AmigaGuide files and no HTML version.

Title: Re: Amiga Developer CD and Windows
Post by: Principher on January 03, 2006, 06:29:36 PM

I indeed have the old version, since I could get it _very_ cheap and I only have KS3.0 in my real Amiga. So that is the platform I have for testing apart from Amiga Forever. If I had known about the HTML documentation I probably would have spend the extra cash on the updated version.

Title: Re: Amiga Developer CD and Windows
Post by: Steady on January 04, 2006, 05:08:28 PM

Bummer.

The new version is worth it, IMHO. Otherwise, as mentioned above you can get a basic AmigaGuide viewer in Windows, so all is not lost.

Title: Re: Amiga Developer CD and Windows
Post by: Macabre on March 15, 2006, 10:43:50 PM

The files can be read on every windows pc with the amiga guide reader for windows.

by the way, the 2.1 cd isnt that expensive and contains a copy of storm c++ 3 too, no the newest one but easy to install, and works with ks 3.0