A500+/A600 - 2MB or more RAM - TVset or TVres Monitor
40MB Hard Drive (26MB used)
Welcome to a very special Workbench - one that comes in Alien
Green or Earthly Blue!
This Workbench includes a design, dockbar (with hand drawn
images) and programs put together by
Paul the Green Amiga Alien
, who sadly is no longer with us. He began a project that never got
finished back in 2002, essentially wanting to create a Workbench pack
for A600 users like himself. The work was never completed, until
now...
This release is dedicated to him and his contribution to the Amiga
community over the years. Our memories are with you Paul, rest in
peace.
Introduction
ClassicWB Green Amiga Alien Edition is essentially a low mem, high
performance Workbench designed for those with ECS 68000 Amigas, e.g
A500+ and A600. Even though it lacks some features of its bigger
brothers, it does not sacrifice any ability to accomplish the most
important tasks!
This Workbench already has many useful items installed, including
WHDload (unregistered), Jst and various patches (no drive clicking!).
Unfortunately, many WHDload games are designed for machines with more
than 2MB of memory. In order to increase your chances of booting a
particular WHDload game, try using the MULTIBOOT
features by holding down the right or left mouse buttons. One will take
you to CLI/Shell where you can execute games, the other a basic
Workbench with more memory available.
Quick rundown of a few features
This is just a quick note to let you know about a few features.
For instance, actions can be performed on icons by selecting them,
right clicking, going to "Actions" and running the relevant option.
If you want to view a file or edit it, select the file, right click
and choose "Actions -> Edit or View" for example.
This is made possible using "ToolsDaemon". Add whatever you want, be
it shell or WB applications, by running the programs prefs editor
"ToolPrefs" under the tools menu.
The "Launch" icon, found left out on the Workbench, starts a
background commodity called "LazyBench" offering list boxes containing
your favourite programs. It's especially useful for launching WHDload
games and demos, without having to trawl through all the drawers to find
their icons.
"TTmanager" (popupmenu Icons -> Properties) lets you change icon
properties quickly and easily via drag and drop.
"Dopus" 412cu is included and comes with a powerful configuration.
This is the last version of Dopus that runs on a 68000 CPU. Please use
the "Arc Ext" button to decompress a wide range of archives.
"NewIcons", available under popup menu settings, can be enabled in
order to show special icons that are sometimes included with WHDLoad
games and certain programs. If you see a dot in place of an Icon, try
enabling this option. If you still see a dot, they are probably for
OS3.5+ only. Enabling NewIcons will use up more memory.
"IconImage" (popupmenu Icons -> Update) lets you drag and drop single
or multiple icon files into a window for updating without losing their
properties. This allows you to keep the Workbench looking good with
minimum effort. A separate folder contains other icons you may want to
use in the Icons drawer.
"NoNewIcon" will remove Newicon information from .info files, making
them smaller and speeding up hard drive access.
"FDcache", listed under the Disk section of the popup menu, silently
creates a RAM cache for floppy disks. After its execution, all floppy
access will be shadowed into RAM, dramatically increasing read speed
on system friendly disks.
"HDEnv" (popupmenu Settings -> ENV) allows the ENV: folder to be
moved from the RAM: disk (default) to the hard drive. If a large
number of files build up in this folder, then significant amounts of
memory can be recovered by changing to hard drive ENV: access.
OK, enjoy! Just add your fav Apps, Games, Demos and Mods!
