AmigaOS 3.9 manuals as PDF

[petemaxi]

Hi there,

I have converted the manuals to pdf.

Please visit http://www.maxiwebs.co.uk/amigaos3.9-manuals/

They are PDFs of the original HTML Manual.

Hope they are of use!

[petemaxi]

Thank you very much!

Now, could you consider doing an amigaguide version, so that low end Amigas can display those manuals?

I literally only got my Amiga 1200 four or so days ago and I'm still waiting on bits and pieces to get it fully working.

I haven't used AmigaGuide for about 17 years, and I didn't use it much then!

I will certainly look into an AmigaGuide version, possibly writing a script to change HTML into AmigaGuide, but I can't promise anything, I have very little free time at the moment, but one day I will look into it and if it happens I will post the results on here.

[petemaxi]

I am about to start converting the manuals to Amigaguide, I will let you know when they are complete and put them on my website.

I am converting them manually, so it may take a while.

I looked into writing a script to change HTML to Amigaguide, but decided against it. Converting Amigaguide to HTML wouldn't be too hard, there is a site that does this: http://www.symbolengine.com/amiguide/ but HTML to Amigaguide would take a lot of work, but maybe one day...

[petemaxi]

I have used HTML 2 Guide, some time ago to try to accomplish the same task. It works, but requires some cleanup (the graphic images).

Maybe you could start with that program, as a base, and then continue cleaning the layout of the generated amigaguides.

Get it at:

http://aminet.net/text/hyper/HTML2Guide.lha

Tried that, but the resulting code needed a lot of cleaning up, and the navigation messed up, so I think doing it by hand would be the quicker option.

Just to let you know, I'm half way through the AREXX manual, the others will follow in a while.

I'll post when they're done, just pop back every now and then until they're done to see the progress. It's very tedious and time consuming, that's why progress is a bit slow!

[petemaxi]

Hi

I've been converting the OS3.9 manuals from HTML to Amigaguide for a few days now, and didn't have a means of highlighting Amigaguide code in my editor, so I wrote my own for Gedit on Linux.

You can download it from: http://www.maxiwebs.co.uk/gedit-amiga/

I doubt it's perfect, but it's a start. Let me know if anyone can improve on this.

Hope this is of use!

[petemaxi]

Just to let you all know, I've converted the AREXX, hard disk and installation manuals to AmigaGuide and I'm working on the Workbench and AmigaDOS manuals.

Download from:-

http://www.maxiwebs.co.uk/amigaos3.9-manuals/

petemaxi

[petemaxi]

Just to let you know, I have redone the manuals site to make you feel more at home... Hope you like it! The address is http://amiga.maxiwebs.co.uk. Please spread the word! Now I've done this, I can get back to converting the rest of the OS3.9 manuals into AmigaGuide.

[petemaxi]

Not that I'm aware of, but if you have PDFs, text files or copies of them, I'll have a go at converting them to AmigaGuide.