Press the Help key for info on this file reader, any other key to exit help, and esc to quit reading Neuralink Presents The Context Bible NIV for the Amiga Computer The Amiga is the most affordable, fully multitasking, graphical-user- interface computer available today. Now you can study the New International Version of the Bible on an Amiga computer. Add your own cross references and notes in hidable levels of outline after any verse. Instantly look up any cross reference by pointing to it. Underline, color-code, italicize and/or bold any text. Write, organize, and cross-reference a lifetime of Biblical research, notes, sermons, outlines, diagrams, commentaries, and a topical Bible. Jump to any location in the Bible by pointing to the book, chapter, and verse. Search for combinations of words and phrases. What I wanted to do In depth Bible research, study and write commentaries, and create a full-featured reference Bible. When I discovered the Thinker program for the Amiga computer, I found the tool I needed; and licensed and formatted the NIV Bible for it. In the January, 1990 Amazing Computing magazine, the reviewer says of Thinker, "It's flexibility far exceeds any other program that I've used on any computer." Benefits of Using The Context Bible. Home - Bible study, cross-reference all your personal observations, sermon notes, and diagrams of how ideas relate to each other. Church - prepare sermons, write Bible study outlines, commentaries, or a complete topical-chain- reference study Bible, quickly look up verses in commentaries, keep a list of sermons with instant links to them and Bible passages covered. Use in Bible study classes. Schools - missionary training, Bible schools, seminaries - write textbooks, prepare lessons, print handouts for students, use in class and for homework. Videotaping - connect a VCR, microphone, and amplifier to an Amiga computer to make video- taped Bible studies. Select a large font for easy readability. A video camera can also be connected. Other Amiga software can do professional titling and graphics. Internet - Create and read HTML files, the format used on the World Wide Web. You don't have to use hard to remember codes. Just create and test the document, and export. Your church or Bible school can have it's own Web Page with Bible studies or even an entire Bible school curriculum made available to tens of millions of Internet users. Advantages of Using a Computer to Study the Bible Easy editing - cut, copy, and paste text; add Bible passages to sermons and commentaries quickly; rearrange the order of paragraphs and sentences; easily change your wording; and check spelling. Hidable outlines - view or hide as many levels of an outline as you want (up to 30 levels possible). Create multiple levels of detail. To allow quick scanning, the number of lines per paragraph that are seen can be adjusted. The number of blank lines between paragraphs can also be changed. Work in up to 8 windows at a time. Each window can be resized or stacked; with different settings for spacing between paragraphs, outline levels shown, and lines viewed per paragraph. Also in each window, labels and outline level numbers can either be shown or hidden. Save entire work setup with one menu selection for easy restarting. Each window can be zoomed between partial and full screen (even under Workbench 1.3). Windows can simultaneously look at different places in the same file or different files. You can even look at the same location in separate windows, but with different levels of outline revealed. Fast look-up of cross-references (in about 1 second) in commentaries and your reference Bible - just point and click the mouse button. Verses can be shown in the same or another window. Go to a verse fast. Point to the abbreviation of the book, the chapter number, and the verse number. Move to anywhere in the Bible with the mouse. To begin a topical Bible, label verses by topic. Point at that same word anywhere in that book to take you to the labeled verse instantly. That topic can also be accessed from any other book of the Bible or any Thinker file. A verse or paragraph can have many such topic labels. For example, label several verses in I John that deal with "truth" and "love". You now have instant access to all these verses with a cross reference to either word. Next, create a master topic file with cross-references to verses and topics labeled in books. These topics in the master topic file can then be cross-referenced from any verse and instantly looked up in the same or another window. The topic can also be viewed after any verse as part of a composite document. Point to each reference in that topic to jump to that verse. Add more notes, markings, diagrams and cross-references as you progress through the topic. Add comments to explain how verses relate to the topic. Add links to related topics. You can branch off into a related topic in a new window, study it there, then close that window to continue the original topical study. Use other reference books, commentaries, and reference Bibles to aid in finding information to add to your personal reference Bible. Use the Context Bible to quickly look up cross-references from these other books. Underline, color-code, italicize, and/or bold any text to emphasize, contrast, and visually associate words and phrases. Draw interactive diagrams and charts. Point at objects or text to instantly look up verses or notes. Point to the name of a chart in your notes to instantly show it. Drawing objects and text can be colored, filled, moved, grouped, layered, resized, and given commands to look up verses. Search for words and phrases with the Context Bible Concordance. Verses can be output to the screen, printer, or disk. The file can be imported into Thinker, with each verse automatically linked to The Context Bible for reading the context and notes. Your set of files is limited only by the number and size of your hard drives. Thinker can easily and quickly move around, among hundreds of megabytes of files. Any word can be instantly jumped to from anywhere else without programming. Other Capabilities of Thinker Database Sort by 1. labels, (such as name, skills, age group), 2. beginning text, 3. variable length fields, or 4. something in an underlying outline. Print mailing labels. Jump to any label instantly, scan first lines or up to any level of outline, and use hypertext jumps to relate items in different locations and files. Search for words and phrases. Automatically create indexes. For advanced users, Thinker can be programmed with the ARexx multitasking language. Interfaces Point and click with the mouse to: send operating system commands, run other programs and load specific files in them without quitting Thinker, play sound files, show pictures in up to 4096 colors on any Amiga computer. Use function keys to send ARexx commands and text to other programs running at the same time, run macros, and access capabilities of other programs. The multitasking language ARexx can also access Thinker's abilities from within other programs. External links allow you to view text files anywhere (such as CD ROM encyclopedias, Bibles, and dictionaries) as Thinker files, with hypertext links, labels, copy and paste, searching and adding your own notes and cross-references. Another new Thinker capability allows Thinker files on a CD ROM to be edited just as if they were on a hard drive. A file with all your added notes is created on a hard drive and merged by Thinker with the CD ROM file. It will seem to you as though you are editing the CD ROM. The Context Bible Concordance The complete pre-indexed concordance, written by Fernando Zapata, contains the entire text of the NIV (plus an index of every occurrence of every word). It can output to a printer or file (also add to the end of a file) in 4 reference formats, with or without text and/or translators' notes. Verses can be output in formats for use with the Hypertext. A search showing all 237 verses in the Bible containing both "Jesus" and "Christ" takes less than 1 second on an un-accelerated Amiga. All 51,812 occurrences of "the" in 22,403 verses are found in under 5 seconds and output into a reader window with scroll bar and arrows. Combinations using AND, OR, NOT, XOR (either or, but not both), grouping and phrases can be done. For example: ("faith" or "trust" or "praise") and "your God" xor "honor" not "angels" (160 verses in under 19 seconds). You can narrow or expand a search by searching the results (add or "angel" to the above; searches in less than 1 second). You can instantly cancel a print in progress. Amiga Capabilities In addition to those already mentioned, the Amiga has one of the most efficient multitasking operating systems of any computer. "How does the Amiga manage to provide multitasking and windowing services in less than one-half to one-fourth the memory that Apple and IBM computers need?" Byte, Jan. 1991, p. 329. In just 1 megabyte of memory, several average programs can run at the same time. The Amiga 500, 1200 and 2000 can expand to 9 megabytes of continuous memory. The Amiga 3000 and 4000 can hold 18 megabytes on the motherboard, with 1700 megabytes RAM addressable. All Amigas come with built-in multitasking, a graphic interface, 4 channel stereo sound (music, sound effects, and speech), at least 4096 colors and 4 screen resolutions, coprocessors to handle much of the work, and a mouse. All new Amigas now support a pallette of over 16 million colors. If you ever use a computer with multitasking and a graphic interface like the Amiga, I doubt that you will ever settle for anything less in the future. Software available Word processing - Final Writer and many others available with spellchecking, thesaurus, grammar checkers, graphics, etc. Thinker is also a basic word/outline processor that prints bold, italics, underlining, page numbers, headers, and footers. Database - SuperBase 4 (won the largest Defense Department PC contract ever awarded), or use Thinker. Spreadsheet - Several available that use color, speech (for proofreading), and easy to use interfaces. CAD - great for diagrams that can be zoomed to incredible amounts of detail, architecture, machines, and circuit boards. Paint - the Amiga has the best paint (and animation) software of any reasonably priced computer. Animation - 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, animated paint programs, ray tracing, and cel animation (as in the Disney Studio software). Many programs use up to 16 million colors. Educational - a wide variety available, especially in math. Music - Some of the best editing and MIDI software available on any computer. Desktop publishing - several available for both amateur and professional use (B&W or color). Games - hundreds of almost every imaginable kind. Great games require a very powerful computer. That's the Amiga, with its graphic, sound, and animation coprocessors. Hardware available Digitizers (video, sound, full-page & hand scanners, drawing tablets), printers (laser, dot matrix, ink jet, plotter), hard drives, laser drives, CD ROM, tape backups, cartridge hard drives, light pens, expansion boards, modems, fax modems, networking cards, 16 million color video special effects boards, and many more. The Amiga can run programs and/or read files from the following computers. using hardware - MS-DOS, Macintosh using software - UNIX, CP/M, Commodore 64, and others. Computer system requirements for The Context Bible Hypertext: any Amiga with 1 meg RAM. Thinker 2.1, includes Tinydraw (Workbench 2, 3 and PAL compatible). Hard drive not required, but recommended for looking up cross-references. 16 megabytes of hard drive space recommended for both the hypertext and concordance. You can move all or part of the files to other hard drives or partitions later without changing any of the cross-references. Concordance: will run on a 512K Amiga. It uses less than 3 megabytes hard drive space. Books Also included with the hypertext is the book (with hundreds of links to the Bible), God's Work In God's Way, by William S. Dillon. The complete works of Bill Dillon and some books by Jay Adams will be available in the near future. Bill Dillon taught missionaries with New Tribes Mission for many years. He has written the most accurate doctrinal books I know of. Jay Adams has written the best Biblical counseling books available. The Context Bible comes with a 2 year money-back guarantee. Prices Amiga computers - Complete systems with color monitor, hard drive, and extra memory start at around $1500. Thinker 2.1 - $80. Order the following direct from Neuralink NIV Context Bible Hypertext with Thinker and Concordance - $150. NIV or KJV Context Bible Hypertext with Thinker $100. If you already own Thinker, subtract $50. NIV Concordance $50. For the Macintosh, Thinker and the NIV and KJV hypertext are available for the same price. Demo disk - free - includes demo version of Thinker, the book of Ephesians (KJV and NIV), the help file, and the HyperBook tutorial for the Concordance. For Australia and New Zealand pricing, contact Mark Sims, 2 Pygmalion Place, Hamilton, New Zealand phone 64-07-8558-207 Jack Seay, owner-manager of NEURALINK P.O. Box 16311 Lubbock, TX 79490 U.S.A. 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