The Green Amiga Alien Guide website contains a series of guides designed for the beginner on how to setup Winuae and install workbench with all the extras. There also is some information about a few of the Amiga Workbench distributions available.
Here is a log of the August 2006 changes:
    * Added WinUAE 1.3.1 to downloads page
    * Added Aminet Mozilla Search plugin by lopos2000 to downloads page
    * Updated Workbench 3.1 guide:
      - Chapter 1 with screenshots from WinUAE 1.3.1
      - Chapter 2 Step 2 with screenshot from WinUAE 1.3.1
      - Plus a few minor text corrections
      - Added a new chapter about: WHDLoad - Using "uae-configuration" and "Tool Types" or "whdload.prefs" to disable JIT in WinUAE
    * Updated Workbench 2.x guide:
      - Chapter 1 with screenshots from WinUAE 1.3.1
      - Chapter 2 Steps 2-6 with screenshot from WinUAE 1.3.1
      - Chapter 3 Step 2 with screenshot from WinUAE 1.3.1
      - Plus a few minor text corrections
    * Updated Workbench 1.3 guide:
      - Chapter 1: Method 1 with screenshots from WinUAE 1.3.1
      - Chapter 1: Method 2 with screenshots from WinUAE 1.3.1
      - Part 2 - Chapter 1: Method 2 Steps 39 & 50 with screenshot from WinUAE 1.3.1
      - Chapter 2 Step 2 with screenshot from WinUAE 1.3.1
      - Plus a few minor text corrections
    * Updated WinUAE Video Output guide with screenshot from WinUAE 1.3.1
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