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EXTRACTING
COVERDISK FILES
Before any where you even near think your of computer putting thec youcitks
. make I sure d you write protect them by moving
the black tab in the top corner of the disk so
ou can see through the hole. Doing this
kes sure you cannot damage your disks in
y way. There is also no reason why the
erdisks need to be written to, so even if the
mputer asks you to write enable the disks,
n't do it
To extract the programs off the second disk
u must make sure you have booted your
mputer with the first coverdisk, otherwise
our Amiga will not be able to find the
nstaller program, and frustration will soon
in-
To extract any single archive, simply double-
Kk its icon, and follow the on screen instrucns_
If you want to quickly extract the program
RAM, select the NOVICE level on the
elcome screen, and press proceed once
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You r also have the option of using a floppy
this. If you pick this option make sure you have
a blank formatted disk at hand, and if you only
ave one drive get ready for lots of disk
apping and a long wait. People with
chines that only have I Mb may have trouble
racting large files to RAM, so in this case you
need to use a floppy.
Hard drive users
users do not have to boot with the
b
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To t make sure your hard drive has the
t files y in place, double-click on the
pHD icon. o This will check if you have the
Installer program u and if not will copy it across -
do not worry m as it will not write over any
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AMIGA COMPUTING
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Some people
love it, some
people hate it,
but whichever
type of person
you may be
you cannot
deny that MUI
programs look
very attractive
and are very easy to use.
This version of the coverdisk is an unregistered
version of MUI 3.3 and has had many
speed improvements added to it. Most
importantly, the routines that create MUI
objects, these being any part of the interface
buttons and so on, have been re-written in
assembler which means the creation and
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redrawing of the GUI is much faster than
before. These speed improvements really
shine through on slower machines because
they benefit the most from the increased
speed. There are also a number of important
bug fixes introduced in the last few versions.
Once you have extracted MUI from the
coverdisk into RAM you need to install it onto
you hard drive. If you do not already have a
copy of MUI this version will only require
around 1.5Mb of space, but can be reduced
to about BOOk if you do not install any of the
documentation, extra images or demo
programs that are worth a look but are not
necessary.
Installation is very simple thanks to the
well written Amiga installer script You should
really choose the Inte mediate install level as
this will allow you
to choose exactly
where the MUI
drawer and all the
MUI files should
be created. Once
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set up correctly. You
will now be able
to run any MI
program.
Unregistered ute ri
will ha ve to put
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looking progra ms