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74 MOOTHER FONTS Your Workbench uses what are known as bitmap fonts which are fonts made up of pixels. The problem with bitmap fonts is that when scaled in size they tend to look chunky and blocky (called jaggies). Intellifont, located in the System drawer, allows you to install special outline fonts. Outline fonts are better than bitmap fonts because they are drawn using mathematical equations, so when they are scaled they maintain their smooth quaky. You can install new outline fonts using IntelliFont and even create new bitmap fonts out of outline fonts. All your current outline fonts are indicated with a • symbol. IV! Intel' i tante Outline Font Source Source typefaces In Workbe nch is no longe r re stricte d to biltroap fonts. Outline fonts provide be a utiful fonts with no loss of qua lity AINBOW AMIGA Changing the colours on Workbench can prove to be a great deal of fun but you can do more than change the icons and backdrop colours - you can also change the colour of all the window and information elements. The first thing to do is load up the Palette program located in the Preis drawer. The elements are presented in a scrolling gadget with the default colour in a box to the left. If, for example, you select the element labelled Active Window Titlebars, which is originally blue, and then choose black you'll find that your windows change to this colour when you hit the Save button. however, before you commit yourself to any changes you can click the Show Sample_ button and you will be presented with a default window and associated gadgets in the colour scheme you have specified. Even though Workbench is capable of running in 256 colour mode, you can only edit the first eight colours. This also applies to the elements - they too can only be of a colour in the first eight. Pdo•••...manng irm -att. / b i d i d k M P I! idd Mon: 1 . ” . • •Mr1F test toot ion loot Brauer - Algorhbeachlonts Ifa el rants: Path Conponent Exist tag loots & Typef acts Soghli Sot h Shadow Soodve 61'1640ot STBMenu liandur it ine Meadhunter !velvet 'Ca Hot Poe WWII 1 NRM2'51N IBM okaBod WhaahasnazcLua..-11w Medd, a c t S . . . J a r g o n • oox NAM - Read -Access-Memory. RAM rs memory provided by the computer for you to USC as you wish. RAM is extremely fast but its contents a re lo st when th e Amiga is turned off. MI - MegaByte. A Megaftyte an indication of RAM size 1Mb is equal to 1014 K (see below). - Kiiobyte. A Kilobyte is equal to 1024 bytes (see below). Byte - a byte is equal to 8-bits (see below). Ill - a be is the smallest value a computer ca n store. S p e rceived by computers users as either I (on) or 0 (off). Merl - these are areas o f RAM pur aside specifically for use b y other ta g s IMihkeMA - this is the process the Amiga uses to understand and interpret hard disks and floppy disks All disks ore validated (or checked) first before being used Cif - Command Line Interlace. Use window to the Amigo's Disk Operating System or DOS (see below). DOS - Disk Operating System. This allows you to communicate with your Amiga. M a re desktops such as Workbench became available users could only communicate with their computers via DOS. C Not only ca n you cha nge the colour of icons a nd ba ck- drops but a lso window e le me nts and te xt AMIGA COMPUTING MAY 19 9 6 ITS AND PIECES Hard drives suffer from a problem known as fragmentation. When data is copied to your hard drive or data moved around, the files tend to get spread right out across the hard drive. The result of this is that files on your hard drive take longer to load and Workbench windows take longer to draw. Using a program such as Quarterback Frogman of used space: 536 411111011111 I ual11111NIM gi=,_ l i t i) This is a fra gme nte d ha rd drive - the gre y a re a s should be a solid block. Quarterback Tools shows how the da ta on this ha rd drive I s split up conside ra bly HE RIGHT SETUP If you own a hard drive it will have been more than likely formatted and Workbench installed at the retail end. Although this means you can use your Workbench immediately, you may find the actual setup lacking that personal touch. I previously mentioned the usefulness of a Data partition for backing up purposes. Unfortunately, most setups don't take this into consideration which means you have to alter it Workbench comes complete with HDToolBox in the Tools directory which allows you to partition (cut up) and format your drive. When you load HDToolBox you are presented with the main window and a set of options. If you click on the button labelled Partition Drive you will see a volume indicator with a small blue arrow. By pulling this anow you can reduce and increase the size in Mbs of the hard drive. By clicking on the New Partition button and then clicking in the spare volume area you can add a new partition, and this, too, will have a blue arrow you can move up and down just as before. In the Partition Drive Name box you can name each partition - one will, more than likefy, be called Workbench. You must turn the Bootable button ticked which tells your hard drive to automatically try and boot up using this partition. To make the changes permanent you can then click on the Okay button and select Save Changes to Drive at the main HDToolBox window. To finish off the procedure you should then boot with your floppy disk Workbench and format each partition with the original names you chose in HDToolBox. All that's left then is to install Workbench to the new Workbench partition. Easy, huh? j Cyl S C S I t 6 , LUti 8 [:::: = Unused M a = 1 partition i o n i Stu' 41 Advanced Opt tons Partition Device N. Workbench Bootable CI Although pa rtitioning a nd forma tting your ha rd drive se e rnA nerve wre cking, N OToolitiox ma ke s it a groa t de a l e a sie r 001 Tools, you can de-fragment your hard drive This process involves taking all the progra ms oft and then replacing them so they are n ot split up or spread out. Although the process can take a fair amount of time, the speed increase in access time is greatly enhanced. You should look to de-fragment your hard drive once every six months. Delete Partition! Neu Partittoni Default fetii Netto r..1. • 0-Used G-Unused Fast File System - - Ok Cancel I
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