Spectre GCR Manual Manuals - Atari Documentation Archive

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. .. . . . . tfiat most computer
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manuafs are cfeadfy du!£
to read. 'ITius, tfiey don It
get read; peopfe haven 't got time
to 6e 6ared. So J try rea1{y fiard
not to write a 60ring manuaL 5tnd
it warfw wfien peopfe fiave some
fun reading a manual, tfiey
tfie time to 1('E5t1J it - and tfiey
understand tfie product vetter as a
result. J thinl(peopfe appreciate
not veing insulted (eg.,
''J-{aIiafiafia, J've got you now,
you 've got to read this turk:!-y, so
we Ire going to mak:!- it as vad as
we can. 'We don 't care, we don 't
have to. ")
Computer manuafs today are
avso{ute{y horrific. Oh, tfiey
usua1{y te{{ you 'E'VE'R!)'TJil'J{g -
and tfiat s tfie pr06fem! %ey Ire
fousy at temng you what s
important and wfiat s trivia 6owf
only materiaL It s up to you to
deciae. It s sometning fikf reading
a fiction vaal( wfiere pages and
pages are aevotea to cfescri6ing tnc
scenery, witli tlie prot sometimes
Inter{ude One
thrown in, fiere and tfiere. 5tn
editor would te{{ tfie autfior of
sucli a vaal( to "kf-ep it moving ".
'I1ie otncr annfogy tfiat comes to
mind is a dictionary with tfie
worcfs in random order.
EDITOR: Keep it moving. Dave.
%us, J try fiara to te[[ you
what 5 important in this manual,
wfiat s merefy interesting, and
wfiat s franf({y I(jnda varing.
'Because of tnis, Spectre users are
tfie 6est informea users J fiave ever
seen, and many are tfie peopfe tfiat
I(now more avout using tfie Spectre
tfian J do. %e fega{ stuff is ... we/I,
you can guess. It son tfie fast
page, if tfiat gives you any icfea,
amy vecause our fawyer fockf-d us
in nis office untit we put it in
S()']v['E'WJf'E1('E.
'Wefcome to tfie fast four years
of my rife, a1{ tnose nours spent in
front of a C1(lJ; cong a stuvvom
CPU into running an operating
system never intencfed for it.
'Wefcome to some e;r.treme{y
dynamite applications software,
huge pu6{ic domain fivraries, and
in a1{ truth, an occasionaf crash on
something neW. 'Wefcome to veing
aEfe to write a note straignt to tfie
autlior online and give Iiim a piece
of your mind - and get an answer!
'We!come to my wife and I putting
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