Welcome to Amiga Forever

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing Amiga Forever, the leading package in cross-platform Amiga connectivity, emulation and support!

You are using the Online Edition of Amiga Forever. This documentation also provides information about the CD-ROM version. The differences between the two versions are described in detail wherever they are of relevance. In addition to this documentation, we recommend the reading of the text files which have been placed for easy access from inside the emulation environment, and in particular the general reference ("ReadMe.txt") and the data sharing reference ("Software/AExplorer/ReadMe.txt").

The "MenuBox" program launcher

The "MenuBox" program launcher shown above is accessible from the Start menu and is displayed automatically when inserting the Amiga Forever CD-ROM in the drive (if auto-play is enabled). The first four ("Amiga OS") items can be selected to run corresponding versions of emulated Amiga systems. The "+" sign indicates that a configuration has additional features, such as audio (which has a performance impact on the emulation, but is required by some programs). The "3.0+" configuration has been preconfigured for extra RAM, support for TCP/IP (which is shared with the Windows environment), and a 68020 CPU with floating point unit (FPU). The Configuration option can be selected to manually configure and run the emulation. Documentation displays this page, while Home Page opens the Amiga Forever Home Page on the Cloanto web site. Browse Directory opens the directory containing the Amiga Forever files, which is very convenient for users who have become familiar with the directory structure of the Amiga emulation and the location of Amiga files and the emulation executable files. Copy to Floppy copies some Amiga files which are included with Amiga Forever, such as the Amiga side of the Amiga Explorer networking software, to a PC floppy disk (drive A). The chapter on Data Sharing explains how to read PC floppy disks on an Amiga, and how to install the Amiga files included with Amiga Forever.

The navigation bar at the left of this page is designed to guide you through the different pages in this guide. You can click on any title to jump directly to the corresponding section. Chapter titles appear on a lighter background. A yellow stripe marks the current location. This documentation also contains contributions by third parties and from the Cloanto web site, as well as Internet links, which will open in a new browser window when selected.

In addition to the complete documentation, consisting of several hundred pages which can all be accessed with a few clicks from this main page (or from inside the emulation, for the AmigaGuide manuals), convenient "ReadMe.txt" files have been placed for quick reference at the root of the CD-ROM, on the Amiga floppy disk, in the directories containing Amiga software, and in the emulation environment.

The intuitive "MenuBox" program launcher for Windows allows you to quickly access and launch the Amiga Forever documentation and software: use the Start menu or insert the CD-ROM to display the selection window, and everything is just one mouse click away! The emulation software included with Amiga Forever does not require a real Amiga, and can also run directly from CD-ROM, without installation. The Amiga Explorer networking software is completely independent from the emulation part, and can be installed separately.

The Amiga software and documentation included in the Amiga Forever CD-ROM are completely independent from both the networking and the emulation components, and can be accessed by inserting the CD in an Amiga computer and opening the "Amiga" directory. The same software and documentation are also preinstalled in the Amiga OS 3.0 emulation environment.

Amiga Forever is available in two versions: an easy to download "Online Edition" updated with new features, and a more complete CD-ROM version. Some sections of this documentation apply only to features of the CD-ROM version.

The Online Edition of Amiga Forever includes:

Amiga Explorer 3.0 networking software, which allows you to connect an Amiga to one or more PCs, and access Amiga files (including virtual ADF and ROM files), directories and volumes directly from the Windows Desktop. Amiga Explorer is easier to install and configure than other networking tools, and includes direct support for serial (null modem) cable connections, in addition to TCP/IP.

Officially licensed Amiga ROM and OS files, versions 1.3 and 3.0.

UAE Amiga emulator for Windows ("WinUAE"). All emulation support files (Amiga ROM and OS, Cloanto Amiga software, Picasso 96 drivers, etc.) can easily be used by other implementations (DOS, Linux, Be, Next, etc.) of these emulators, as well as by future new versions.

Picasso 96 drivers for the emulation software, supporting palette modes up to 256 colors, as well as true color.

Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1 (paint, animation and image processing software, with short tutorials), DirDiff 5.1 (file synchronization and replication software), AmiToRTF 4.2 (to convert texts from Amiga to Windows formats) and MailBX (to convert Amiga mail archives to PC formats).

Bonus software by third parties, such as the TurboText editor, KingCON, archiving and extraction tools, all preinstalled for easy drag-and-drop functionality with ToolManager. Documentation for this software is available online from the Amiga (emulation) side.

The Amiga Forever CD-ROM includes:

Exclusive interview with Jay Miner, in text format and on three audio tracks (the last three tracks, when played on an audio CD player).

Amiga Explorer 2.0 networking software, which allows you to connect an Amiga to one or more PCs, and access Amiga files (including virtual ADF and ROM files), directories and volumes directly from the Windows Desktop. Amiga Explorer is easier to install and configure than other networking tools, and includes direct support for serial (null modem) cable connections, in addition to TCP/IP.

MSH filing system to allow all Amiga computers to read and write MS-DOS floppy disks.

Officially licensed Amiga ROM and OS files from version 1.0 to version 3.0.

UAE Amiga emulator for Windows and DOS, and Fellow for DOS. All emulation support files (Amiga ROM and OS, Cloanto Amiga software, Picasso 96 drivers, etc.) can easily be used by other implementations (Linux, Be, Next, etc.) of these emulators, as well as by future new versions. Experimental versions of UAE for PowerPC Amiga and PowerMac systems are included.

Picasso 96 drivers for the UAE emulation software, supporting palette modes up to 256 colors, as well as true color.

Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1 (paint, animation and image processing software, with full documentation), DirDiff 5.1 (file synchronization and replication software) and AmiToRTF 4.2 (to convert texts from Amiga to Windows formats), usable on a "real" Amiga as well as in the emulation environment.

Amiga Interactive Guide, by Gareth Knight: an encyclopedia of Amiga technology, history and opinions.

All upgrades and extensions for Windows and DOS required by the emulation software: Service Pack 3 for Windows NT 4.0, DirectX for Windows 95, VESA shareware software for DOS and Windows.

We are working very hard to improve Amiga Forever and to make available news, upgrades and troubleshooting information on our web site in order to provide the best possible support to our customers. We invite you to become a frequent guest of the Amiga Forever Home Page, and to please let us know if you feel that there is anything we could improve.

The Amiga has been through difficult times, and so have we, developers and users. Yet we have kept working for the Amiga, and you are still here too, with one of our creations. We will not forget these times, and we hope that you are enjoying them too.

Thank you.

Your Cloanto Team

Amiga Forever!

Installation

Installation for Windows systems is completely automatic, and can be launched either from the program launcher which appears when the CD-ROM is inserted (if auto-play is enabled), or from the "Windows/Setup" directory on the CD-ROM ("Setup.exe"). The installation program allows for the Amiga emulation components and the Amiga Explorer networking software for Windows to be installed separately, even at different times, if so desired. Please note that, especially in Windows, the terms "setup" and "installation" are often used to describe the same process, i.e. the installation of software from CD-ROM to hard disk.

If you purchased the Online Edition and are now reading this, you have obviously already installed Amiga Forever (users of the CD-ROM version can also read this documentation from the CD without installing it). If you wish to use the Amiga Explorer networking software, you need to copy two files to the Amiga. This can be done with the "Copy to Floppy" option in the Amiga Forever MenuBox launcher, or manually, as explained in the Introduction to Data Sharing section.

For security reasons, under Windows NT the installation of Amiga Explorer can be done only by users and accounts having administrator rights.

The Windows version of UAE Amiga emulator requires at least version 3 of the DirectX graphics system. For users of Windows NT 4.0, this version is part of the Service Pack 3 or higher. These components are already installed in Windows 98 and Windows NT 5.0, and in some cases also in Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. They are also included in Amiga Forever. The DOS versions of the UAE and Fellow emulators (which also run under Windows) require VESA VBE drivers for Super VGA. If your graphics card does not provide VESA VBE compatibility at the hardware level, and if no VESA VBE drivers are available from the manufacturer, then you can try the Universal VESA VBE shareware software included with Amiga Forever.

In general, the DOS and Windows emulation software included with Amiga Forever has been tested on different types of computers with Intel Pentium CPUs (which include the "Pentium", "Pentium Pro", "Pentium II", "Celeron", "Xeon" and others). Some versions of the software specifically require an Intel Pentium CPU, or 100% compatible. Please note that the NexGen "586" CPU is a fast clone of the Intel 80386 CPU, and is not compatible with the Pentium instruction set. Under Windows 95 (unlike Windows NT 4.0), the Cyrix CPU may be incorrectly detected as a Pentium CPU by the system, although it does not provide 100% compatibility with the Pentium CPU. This may require the manual adjustment of some settings in the emulation software (which was also tested on different Cyrix "Pentium-compatible" CPUs). AMD CPUs reportedly work fine without requiring special settings. The Amiga Explorer software is not as demanding as the Amiga emulators, and, although designed for Pentium CPUs, should work properly on any 386, 486 or Pentium system with Windows 95, NT 4.0 or higher.

Although the automatic installation program is provided specifically for the Windows operating system, the Amiga Forever emulation environment can easily be installed on other platforms (for example Linux, Be, Next, or even Amiga). To do so, it is sufficient to copy the "Emulation" directory to the hard disk, deleting any subdirectories such as "WinUAE" (the Windows version of UAE) which may not be of interest on the target platform. The "shared" directory inside "Emulation" contains all the important Amiga system files, as well as the preinstalled software. This material should work with all Amiga emulators, which in general are freely distributable and can be downloaded at no cost following the links on the Amiga Forever Home Page. The Amiga Forever documentation is in HTML format, which is a cross-platform standard that can be read with any web browser. The documentation can be installed manually by copying the "Documentation" directory from the root of the CD-ROM to the hard disk. The main and first page of the documentation is "index.html" (inside "Documentation").

The Amiga Forever CD-ROM also contains an "Amiga" directory with data and program files which are only usable from an Amiga computer or from the Amiga emulation environment. This directory contains Amiga-specific software and documentation. The same software is also preinstalled in the Amiga emulation environment (note: Personal Paint is preinstalled with less artwork than in the "Amiga" directory, to preserve hard disk space).

The CD-ROM version of Amiga Forever includes a set of Amiga files which are designed to be run or installed not only from CD-ROM, but also from an Amiga floppy disk, if necessary, in order to support Amiga computers without CD-ROM drives. These are the basic Amiga tools for cross-platform data sharing, and are stored in the "Amiga/AF_Disk" directory on the CD-ROM. The same data is also stored in the DMS and LhA formats, inside the "Archives/AF_Disk" directory. The Amiga floppy disk can be created on an Amiga with a CD-ROM drive, or on an Amiga capable of reading PC disks (by first copying the DMS or the LhA file to a DOS-formatted 720 KB floppy disk).

The Online Edition of Amiga Forever includes the Amiga side of the Amiga Explorer networking software. It consists of two files, named "AExplorer" (the Amiga program file) and "AExplorer.info" (the Amiga icon file for "AExplorer"), which are stored in a directory named "AExplorer", which is installed together with the other Amiga Forever files, and by default can be found in "C:\Program Files\Cloanto\Amiga Forever\Emulation\shared\dir\Work\Software". In order to use Amiga Explorer on both the PC and an Amiga, these two files must be copied to the Amiga. The MenuBox launcher window has a "Copy to Floppy" option which automatically copies these files to a floppy disk. After the files are copied, it is important to make sure that these file names are restored, if they were modified by the copy process.

The "Archives", "Audio" and "VESA" directories on the CD-ROM, as well as the directories inside "Windows" which contain the DirectX, Service Pack and Setup files are not installed by default. This reference material, which would not be very practical to install on average-sized hard disks, can always be accessed on the CD-ROM. Installation remains possible, but would consume several 100 Mbytes of hard disk space. The "Archives" directory contains the original archives by third parties of which material was included in Amiga Forever. The "Audio" directory contains the interview with Jay Miner in WAV format, readable by most operating systems, web browsers, and audio applications. Additionally, the last three tracks of the CD can be played on a standard (audio) CD player.

Registration

Have you remembered to register your software? Registered users are eligible for special offers of Cloanto products. Registering your software also gives you the possibility to tell us what you like and what you would like to see improved. All registration information is very valuable for us, as it makes us better understand our users, which in turn helps us improve our software and services. We read all user registrations, with particular attention to the comments (even if it is not always possible to give a personal reply). We do not forward registration data to unrelated parties, and we limit the number of mailings, if any, to no more than one or two per year, on average.

To register via electronic mail, please click here to open a special registration form, which you can then edit and email to register@cloanto.com.

In the near future, we expect that online registration will also be possible from the Cloanto web site, using a web browser.

Troubleshooting

Before releasing this product, we collected experience and feedback from a large number of users of a special "Preview Edition" of Amiga Forever, as well as from our own testing groups. With the help of this precious knowledge, we tried to make sure that every single issue which may lead to potential difficulties has been properly documented in these pages, or, where possible, is totally and automatically taken care of by the software.

The following sections describe some of the most common difficulties that might be encountered with Amiga Forever, and their solutions. Additional troubleshooting sections, dealing specifically with the Amiga software by Cloanto (e.g. Personal Paint) are available in the Amiga section on the Cloanto web site.

Long File and Directory Names

If you have difficulties installing or running the software, and by manually browsing the CD-ROM (right-click on the CD-ROM icon, and select Explore) you notice that all directory and file names are "truncated" to a maximum length of 8 characters (e.g. "Document" instead of "Documentation"), then you should upgrade your CD-ROM filing system to support long file names. Amiga Forever uses both the Joliet (standard since Windows 95) and the Rock Ridge (used on Amiga and other systems) extensions. If you have this problem under Windows 95, you probably are using some old "real-mode" CD-ROM drivers designed for DOS, which were possibly included on a floppy disk with your CD-ROM drive. You should remove them and replace them with "protected-mode" CD-ROM drivers, or let Windows 95 automatically detect and support the CD-ROM drive. The online support section on Microsoft's web site has more about this (among others, see articles Q151634, Q131499 and Q137813 of the Microsoft Knowledge Base). If you are experiencing this problem on an Amiga, then please make sure that the filing system you are using supports Rock Ridge extensions, and that these are enabled. Freely distributable CD-ROM filing systems for the Amiga that include these features, such as "AmiCDROM"/"AmiCDFS" (at least version 2.0), are available from most Aminet or Fred Fish collections. Long file and directory names are absolutely required on Amiga Forever, among other things to support the Amiga system files, which can be accessed directly from the CD. Please refer to the Troubleshooting section on the Amiga Forever Home Page for additional information.

Setup on Windows NT

Under certain configurations the InstallShield software which is used in the Setup program requires at least a Service Pack 1 revision of Windows NT 4.0 (or a newer version of Windows NT itself). The section about Service Pack 3, which is included on the Amiga Forever CD-ROM, describes how to manually install the service pack before running the Setup program, if necessary.

Windows NT gives administrators the possibility to limit the type of software that can be installed on a computer, the system registry entries that can be accessed and modified, and the extensions that can be added. This is sometimes done in larger organizations, where the administrators who take care of configuring the systems use a different account than the regular users of those systems. If this results in an error installing Amiga Forever components such as Amiga Explorer (which requires a logon with administrator privileges), it is necessary for an administrator to log on to the workstation and perform the installation.

Amiga Explorer

Amiga Explorer must be installed on the Windows side (using an administrator account, if Windows NT), and running on the Amiga side before it can work. If Amiga Explorer does not work at all, i.e. if a double-click on the Amiga Computer icon on the Desktop results in an error message, or in a blank window, then please double-check the sections about Amiga Explorer in general, and the serial and TCP/IP connections in particular, which contain detailed installation instructions.

The most common causes of problems when using Amiga Explorer over a serial connection are:

Incorrect COM port selected on the Windows side

Speed too high, or not set to the same value on Windows and the Amiga

Fax, modem or mouse hardware or software set to the same COM port as Amiga Explorer

Incorrect wiring of the null modem cable

To address the first two cases, right-click on the Amiga Computer icon on the Windows Desktop, and select "Properties". Then select a different COM port and/or speed. Before experimenting with different speeds, please make sure that Amiga Explorer works at the default speed of 19.2 kbit/sec. Otherwise, it becomes more difficult to determine whether Amiga Explorer is not working because of speed problems, or because it is trying to communicate over an incorrect COM port (e.g. connected to a modem, instead of the Amiga).

It should also be noted that the performance of the Amiga serial port may be reduced depending on the resolution and depth (number of colors) of the frontmost screen, when Amiga screen modes are used. This only affects the higher serial port speed settings.

The most common causes of problems when using Amiga Explorer over a TCP/IP connection are:

TCP/IP not installed correctly (PC and Amiga cannot "ping" to each other at the addresses specified in Amiga Explorer)

Firewall, proxy server or router between PC and Amiga do not relay data on port 356, used by Amiga Explorer

Attempt to start Amiga Explorer (e.g. in Amiga "Startup-Sequence", or "WBStartup") when TCP/IP is not yet running on the same machine

Passwords on Amiga side and PC side do not match

On some versions of Windows, files copied from the Amiga to the PC have their original dates "touched", i.e. changed to the current time. This is a limitation of the original Windows namespace extension code, and has been solved in recent versions of Windows, and also by the Desktop Update included with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.00 and higher. Please note that the Desktop Update included with Internet Explorer 4.00 and 4.01 introduces a side effect whereas nested directories (i.e. directories containing subdirectories) copied from the Amiga to the PC may in rare cases result in some subdirectories being copied to the root of the destination, rather than in their correct location. Future versions should have this issue corrected.

Amiga Floppy Disks Not Readable on PC

Amiga floppy disks cannot be read on PCs without installing special hardware. This is explained in depth in the section about floppy disks. We recommend Amiga Explorer as a solution which allows Amiga floppy disks inserted in a "real" Amiga's disk drive to be accessed from the Windows Desktop. In such a configuration, an Amiga computer can act as a "floppy drive" for the PC. The Amiga computer itself does not even require a monitor.

Intel Pentium "Compatible" CPUs

Please refer to the specific notes about the NexGen and Cyrix CPUs in the Installation section. In general, an Intel Pentium or 100% compatible CPU is required. The NexGen "586" CPU is not Pentium-compatible (it is a 386 clone). The Cyrix CPU may require some special settings in the emulation software. AMD CPUs are not known to require special settings.

Amiga Emulation Software

The Windows and DOS versions of the emulation software respectively require DirectX and VESA VBE drivers. If these are not installed properly, the software will not work. If these are installed, but there are still display-related problems, it is recommended to get the latest versions of the graphics drivers directly from the web site of the manufacturer of the display card.

The Windows version of the UAE ("WinUAE") emulator requires a display card capable of displaying hi or true color modes (65536 colors or more), and DirectX drivers supporting a feature called "DCI provider", which is not always included in the original display drivers which come with Windows NT 4.0, but must in some cases be downloaded separately from the web site of the display card manufacturer (if not included with the card itself).

If you experience problems running the emulator on a Cyrix CPU, you may need to manually activate some settings in the emulation software. Settings also need to be changed if in some screen modes the lower portion of the screen is not displayed properly. These are explained more in detail in the UAE section.

By default, audio is disabled in the automatic configurations. It can be enabled manually.

If some of the keys which are pressed on the keyboard do not correspond to the characters which appear on screen, then use the Amiga Input Preferences to indicate the correct keyboard language. By default, the Amiga emulation environment is preset for a US-keyboard, which mainly results in certain national characters not being mapped properly on non-US keyboards.

If you use a graphics tablet to control the pointer, some versions of the emulation software require that the tablet be configured in mouse emulation mode (relative moves, rather than absolute moves), or otherwise the Amiga mouse pointer will move erratically.

Additional troubleshooting notes, which apply to the manual configuration of the emulation software, are available in the respective sections.

Amiga Floppy Disk

Amiga Forever is distributed on CD-ROM or online, without physically including the Amiga floppy disk mentioned in this documentation, and which can be created from the data included on the CD-ROM (the Online Edition also contains a simplified Amiga section, with the Amiga side of Amiga Explorer). The main reason for this was the increasing difficulty in acquiring and duplicating large quantities of Amiga DD floppy disks (HD disks can only be read if formatted at 1.76 MB on many Amiga systems, but will fail on all other Amiga drives if this format is used). In any case, a copy of the data on the floppy disk is included in different formats on the CD-ROM. The sections on installation and data sharing explain how to create the floppy disk with the help of an Amiga dealer or a fellow Amiga user equipped with an Amiga CD-ROM drive, or even using a 720 KB (PC) floppy disk to transfer the data from a CD-ROM-equipped PC. The Amiga floppy disk is not required on Amiga computers with a CD-ROM drive (because the software is also on CD), or within the emulation environment, or if you are not interested in transferring data between the Amiga and other computers.

Paper Manuals

The documentation of Amiga Forever is entirely in electronic format, all accessible (and printable) online from the CD-ROM, or from the hard disk (after installation). There is no printed version of this documentation. The combined manuals included in the multi-platform and Amiga sections of Amiga Forever would amount to several thousand printed pages, so we regret that, although in some cases desirable, it would be neither practical nor possible (or environmentally conscious) to include them all with each product at a reasonable cost.

The Amiga Forever license allows you to make a printed copy of the online documentation.

Technical Support

If you have a problem or otherwise need assistance with Amiga Forever, we would kindly ask you to first make sure, if possible, that:

You read the Amiga Forever documentation, and in particular the sections about the specific issue you need help with, and the Installation and Troubleshooting parts

You read the Amiga Forever FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions), Support and Troubleshooting sections on our web site, which is where we post answers to questions and troubleshooting issues which are not covered by the documentation

You are using the latest version of the freely distributable emulation software, available from the links indicated on the Amiga Forever Home Page.

While we put every effort in the attempt to make this documentation and our web site answer all your questions, we will be very happy to provide you with further assistance via email, should you need it. Please address your inquiries to support@cloanto.com. You do not need to be a registered user to be eligible for support via email, but please quote the Amiga Forever serial number in your request. Please understand that we cannot provide technical support for issues concerning the Amiga operating system in general (other than making sure that it works as designed for Amiga Forever), and the specific implementations of the emulation software (please refer to the respective home pages, listed in the Amiga Forever Home Page).

If you are reporting a problem with Amiga Explorer, please enable the logging option on both the Windows and the Amiga side, reproduce the problem while logging is enabled, and kindly include a copy of the log files with your report. For your privacy, please keep in mind that the log files may contain small references to the beginning and end of the contents of the data packets that are transferred.

Credits

We would like to thank all the people and organizations who, directly or indirectly, put their energy into the items included on Amiga Forever, regardless of whether their names appear here, or not.

For making the Amiga a reality, thank you, Jay Miner and Akio Tanaka, Allen E. Collier, Allen Gift, Anne Morales, Bill Kolb, Bob "Kodiak" Burns, Bob Pariseau, Bruce Thompson, Carl Sassenrath, Caryn Havis, Cheryl Gibbons, Chris Rice, Dale Luck, Dan Bertram, Dan Reitsinger, Darlaine McDonell, Dave Dean, Dave Dorneuan, Dave Morse, Dave Needle, Debbie Minardi, Don Luck, Edwin Chu, Gary McCoy, Glenn Keller, Greg Lee, Jack Halyer, Jeff L. Taylor, "Joe Pillow", John Cahill, Laurie Jan Rusch, Lee Ho, Mark Shu, Martin Prylyzinski, Mike D. Law, Mike Slifcak, Mitchell Gass, "Mitchy the Pomeranian", Neil Katin, Rick Geiger, Robert J. Mical, Rob Peck, Ronald H. Nicholson Jr, Sam Dicker, Sheryl A. Knowles, Stan Shepard and all the others whose signatures appear inside the Amiga 1000 top cover, but whose names we couldn't exactly make out ("'85", "Don", "Elizabeth", "Howard", "Keith", "W" and "Will"). Thank you also Andy Finkel, Bryce Nesbitt, Carolyn Scheppner, Chris Kohler, Dale Larson, Dave Haynie, Jim Goodnow, Peter Cherna, Peter Kittel, Petro Tyschtschenko, Randell Jesup, Scott Hood, and all the other people behind the Amiga.

Thank you, Bernd Schmidt and Alessandro Bissacco, Alexander Kneer, Andreas Schildbach, Andr� Beck, Andr� Rodrigues de la Rocha, Arnaud Blanchard, Brett Eden, Brian King, Brian Wheeler, Bruno Coste, Chris Hames , Chris Pratt, Christian Bauer, Christian Schaefers, Christian Schmitt, Cloanto, David Varley, David Voracek, Denis Sablic, Dirk Vangestel, Douglas Carmichael, Ed Hanway, Eduardo Motta Buhrnheim, Ernesto Corvi, Felix Bardos, Fulvio Leonardi, Gustavo Goedert, Hannu Rummukainen, Henry Mantere, Herman ten Brugge, Hetz Ben Hamo, Holger "Heureka" Jakob, Ian Stephenson, James Hunter, Joanne Dow, Kai Kollmorgen, Krister Bergman, Laurent Dugois, Manfred Thole, Marco de Cesare, Marco Nelissen, Marcus Sundberg, Markus Gietzen, Mathias Ortmann, Michael Krause, Michael Sontheimer, Michel Morneau, Nemo Pohle, Olaf Barthel, Oliver Moehrke, Olivier Raoul, Paolo Besser, Patrick Hanevold, Paul Kienitz, Paul Liss, Per Olofssen, Peter Remmers, Peter Teichmann, Petter Schau, Pietro Baricco, Rainer Sinsch, Rasmus Therkelsen, Roberto Gasparrini, Rodney Hester, Roman Dolejsi, Ruben Martinez, Samuel Devulder, Samuel Mackrill, Stefan Reinauer, Stefan Ropke, Tauno Taipaleenmaki, Thierry Lescot, Thorsten Fr�auf, Tim Gunn, Tobias Abt, Tomasz Sienicki, Tomi Hakala, Toni Wilen, Tristan Cavelier and Volker Zota, for the "magic" UAE, Fellow and Picasso 96 software, utilities and documentation. Please refer to the original archives, included in the "Archives" directory of the Amiga Forever CD-ROM, for more detailed information.

For their help during the development of Amiga Forever, we would like to thank Alexander Glied, Andreas Schildbach, Andrew Korn, Andy Finkel, Angela Schmidt, Arnaud Blanchard, Ben Vost, Bernd Schmidt, Brett Eden, Brian King, Bruno Ceruetto, Carolyn A. Scheppner, Christian Schmitt, Dana Peters, David Craftsman, David G�hler, David Larsson, Deok-Min Yun, Elena Squalizza, Fabrice Mansat, Federico Giannici, Fulvio Leonardi, Gareth Knight, Gustavo Goedert, Heinz Wrobel, Holger "Heureka" Jakob, Jack Mindelis, Jay Miner, Jens Sch�nfeld, Jernej Pecjak, Julian Eggebrecht, Kara Blohm, Kim Han Jong, Luca Danelon, Luca Ognibene, Luisa Sparavier, Manos S. "Guybrush" Konstantiniadis, Martin Taillefer, Mathias Ortmann, Michael C. Battilana, Michael Maguerre, Michal Kara, Michele Puccini, Olaf Barthel, Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert, Oleg Sergeev, Oscar Sillani, Paul Reeves, Petro Tyschtschenko, Petter Schau, Ray Ruvinskiy, Richard Small, Roberto Borri, Ronald H. Nicholson, Shigeru Noro, Shinichi Nishibata, Stefan Becker, Stefan Ossowski, Stefan Reinauer, Takeo Sato, Tassos Stathis Dimengelis, Thomas Svenson, Tim Gunn, Tobias Abt and Wajdy al-Zayer.

Amiga Forever also includes contributions by Albert J. Brouwer (Amiga executable file decompression modules), Albrecht Computer Technik (Samplitude software used to edit the Jay Miner interview), the Independent JPEG Group (parts of the JPEG code), Jean-loup Gailly (parts of PNG compression procedures), Maurizio Ciccione (AudioLab software used to edit the Jay Miner interview) and Peter Struijk (Amiga executable file decompression modules).

All the people (and the one dog) mentioned here can contact Cloanto to get a free copy of Amiga Forever, if they have not received one already. This also applies for "Joe Pillow", but only if he comes to pick up the CD personally.

Legal Notes

The following notes apply to the contents of the Amiga Forever package. These Legal Notes are an addendum to the Cloanto End User License Agreement (EULA) which is included with Amiga Forever and which you have approved before installation. For additional information, please refer to the EULA and to the individual items which are included in the Amiga Forever distribution. The original archives of most third-party contributions are stored in the "Archives" directory at the root of the Amiga Forever CD-ROM. Other items are linked to directly from this documentation. Additional information may also be released on the Amiga Forever Home Page.

Copyrights, Patents and Licenses

Amiga Explorer, MenuBox, DirDiff, Personal Paint, Personal Write, the Jay Miner interview and all the individual files stored in Amiga Forever are Copyright � 1987-1999 Cloanto, unless otherwise indicated in the files or in this document. All rights reserved. Parts are licensed from third parties. The compilation is Copyright � 1997-1999 Cloanto. No part of this package may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, optical, electronic, magnetic, biological, chemical, mechanical, acoustic, manual or otherwise without the prior written permission of the copyright holders, or as indicated here.

Cloanto may have copyrights, trademarks, patents, patent applications, and other intellectual property rights covering items contained in Amiga Forever and its documentation. Except as expressly provided in any written license agreement from Cloanto, the furnishing of this product and its documentation does not give you any license to these copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property.

Amiga Forever is hereby licensed for installation and use on one non-Amiga computer and one Amiga computer, both used by the same primary user. The Amiga Explorer networking software is hereby licensed for installation and use on one server computer (Amiga software) and up to two client computers (Windows software). If your only means of access to the documentation included with Amiga Forever is electronic, permission to print one copy of the documentation is hereby granted. The default Workbench icons written by all Cloanto programs are freely distributable. No copyright notice is required when redistributing these icon files. On behalf of Cloanto, no restrictions apply to the emulation software, which may be installed and distributed freely in the original archives (which contain additional distribution information, UAE in particular being an open source project subject to the GNU General Public License).

The Amiga System files are Copyright � 1985-1997 Amiga International Inc., licensed for use with emulated Amiga systems only. The AmigaGuide, Installer and WDisplay software and project icons are Copyright � 1991-1993 Commodore-Amiga Inc. (� assigned to Amiga International Inc. in 1997), reproduced and distributed under license. Abstracts from "Using the System Software", Copyright � 1990 Commodore-Amiga Inc. (� assigned to Amiga International Inc. in 1997), used with permission. The HP DeskJet drivers included with Personal Paint are Copyright � 1985-1993 Commodore-Amiga Inc. (� assigned to Amiga International Inc. in 1995) and Copyright � 1993 Cloanto. The new Installer icon design is Copyright � 1994 Cloanto. The Kara color fonts and animated fonts are Copyright � 1989-1992 Kara Computer Graphics; extensions and modifications are Copyright � 1995 Cloanto.

UAE and the related utilities and documentation are Copyright � 1995-1999 Bernd Schmidt and contributors, as listed in the original distribution (stored in the "Archives" directory of the Amiga Forever CD-ROM), distributed with permission. UAE has recently changed its legal and distribution status, and is now an open source project under the GNU GPL. Source code of WinUAE, which is included with the Amiga Forever CD-ROM, is available as a free separate download to the users of the Online Edition. Fellow and the related utilities and documentation are Copyright � 1996-1999 Petter Schau and contributors, as listed in the original distribution (stored in the "Archives" directory of the Amiga Forever CD-ROM), distributed with permission. Transdisk is Copyright � 1995-1997 Bernd Schmidt, Joanne Dow, Marcus Sundberg, Rodney Hester and Stefan Ropke, distributed with permission. Transrom is Copyright � 1995-1996 Bernd Schmidt, Marcus Sundberg, Rodney Hester and Stefan Ropke, distributed with permission. The Picasso 96 software is Copyright � 1994-1999 Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt, distributed with permission. MSH is Copyright � 1989-1997 Olaf "Rhialto" Seibert, distributed under license. TurboText is Copyright � 1990-1994 Martin Taillefer, distributed with permission. KingCON is Copyright � 1993, 1994 David Larsson, distributed with permission. ToolManager is Copyright � 1990-1996 Stefan Becker, distributed with permission. LhA (Freeware Version) is Copyright � 1991-1994 Stefan Boberg and Copyright � 1998 Jim Cooper. CycleToMenu is Copyright � 1993, 1994 Federico Giannici, distributed with permission. The Amiga Interactive Guide is Copyright � 1997 Gareth Knight, distributed with permission. The Kickstarting with UAE guide is Copyright � 1997, 1998 Odyssey Web Design, distributed with permission. The UAE Frequently Asked Questions guide is Copyright � 1997, 1998 Brett Eden, distributed with permission. The UAE HowTo guides are Copyright � 1997 Ray Ruvinskiy, distributed with permission. The UAE Tips & Tricks guide is Copyright � 1997-1999 Fulvio Leonardi, distributed with permission. The Amiga Floppy Reader project is Copyright � 1997 Marco Veneri, distributed with permission.

Microsoft Service Pack 3 for Windows NT 4.0 and DirectX 3a for Windows 95 are Copyright � 1981-1997 Microsoft Corporation, distributed under license. The SciTech Display Doctor software is Copyright � 1993-1997 SciTech Software Inc., distributed under license. Photo CD code is included under license of Eastman Kodak Company. GIF code is included under license of Unisys Corporation (U.S. Patent Number 4 558 302 and international counterparts). The PostScript Language is Copyright � 1985-1990 Adobe Systems Incorporated, used with permission.

Disclaimer, Limitation of Liability and Other Limitations

AMIGA FOREVER IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE. BY USING THE SOFTWARE AND DATA FILES, YOU ACCEPT THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO ITS QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE. NEITHER CLOANTO NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION OR DELIVERY OF THE SOFTWARE AND DATA FILES SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF USE OR LOSS OF ANTICIPATED COSTS, EXPENSES OR DAMAGES, AND ANY DATA OR INFORMATION WHICH MAY BE LOST OR RENDERED INACCURATE, EVEN IF CLOANTO OR THE PROVIDER OF THE SOFTWARE OR DATA IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

The documents and artwork included in Amiga Forever were prepared with great care. They may reflect personal opinions of the authors, which are not necessarily endorsed by Cloanto, who cannot assume any responsibility for their contents, nor for mistakes and misprints. Nothing in these documents should be regarded as legal or professional counsel. If you require legal or other expert assistance, you should consult a professional advisor.

Amiga Forever may contain technology relating to strategic products controlled by export or import control laws of the producing and/or exporting or importing countries. The product or any portion thereof should not be exported (or reexported, or imported) without authorization from the appropriate authorities in accordance with such laws.

Due to licensing limitations of the Amiga intellectual property, this product may not be exported to the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and the Asian Countries having a common border with, and between the People's Republic of China and the former Soviet Union.

For the Amiga system files: "Amiga International and Cloanto make no warranties or representations, express or implied, in fact or in law, including any implied warranty against latent defects, and the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose nor as to the result to be obtained from use of the Amiga technology or the Amiga operating system. The user expressly agrees that the use of Amiga technology and the Amiga operating system shall be at the user's exclusive risk. The user shall indemnify and defend Amiga International and Cloanto for any claim, loss or injury related to Amiga technology or the Amiga operating system."

For the Windows 95 DirectX distribution: "The Redistributable Code is the property of Microsoft Corporation and its suppliers and is protected by copyright law and international treaty provisions. You are authorized to make and use copies of the Redistributable Code either as part of the application in which you received the Redistributable Code, or in conjunction with the application for which its use is intended. Except as expressly provided in the foregoing sentence, you are not authorized to reproduce and distribute the Redistributable Code. Microsoft reserves all rights not expressly granted. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Redistributable Code, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation. THE REDISTRIBUTABLE CODE IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE ACCURACY AND THE USE OF THE REDISTRIBUTABLE CODE. MICROSOFT SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE REDISTRIBUTABLE CODE, EVEN IF MICROSOFT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE."

For the Windows NT Service Packs: "Microsoft grants you the non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty free, right and license to reproduce and distribute an unlimited number of copies of the Redistributable Code either for use in conjunction with your computer hardware product or with your own software product, designed to operate in conjunction with Microsoft Windows NT, provided: (a) each copy of the Redistributable Code is a true and complete copy, (including the setup program, update.exe); (b) you require any installation of the i386 and alpha directories to be made using the associated update.exe program; (c) you distribute the Core Files altogether as a single set with any individual or group of Redistributable Code you distribute; (d) you distribute the Redistributable Code on a compact disc; (e) you include all copyright and trademark notices contained in the Redistributable Code, (f) you do not distribute the Redistributable Code for profit, (g) you do not modify the Redistributable Code; (h) you do not permit further redistribution of the Redistributable Code; and (i) the Redistributable Code is accompanied by a copy of these license terms. You must verify that you are distributing the most recent version of the Service Pack. Check our FTP server at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/ for the latest Service Pack version. If you find more recent versions of the Service Pack on the Microsoft FTP Server, you may download such files for your own use; provided, however, you may not redistribute any such files without first obtaining them on a compact disc from Microsoft."

In compliance with the Unisys license for GIF/LZW code, this software shall not be used on computers other than "personal computers and workstations". The software shall not be used on computers "functioning as a server, hardware and firmware" or as "software for use in operating an on-line service, bulletin board, Web or Internet access service". The software may be used only "on a single personal computer or workstation which is not used as a server", and may not be modified or copied, except for one copy for backup or archival purposes, or a copy from the original package to a "single hard disk", in which cases one copy may be kept solely for backup or archival purposes.

The information contained in this package may contain errors, and is subject to change without notice.

Trademarks

Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are trademarks. Cloanto has made every attempt to supply trademark information about manufacturers and their products. The following is a list of designations and their owners.

AGA, AmigaDOS, AmigaGuide, CD��, CDTV, Intuition, Kickstart and Workbench are trademarks of Amiga International Inc. Alphacom is a registered trademark of Alphacom Inc. Alphapro is a trademark of Alphacom Inc. Amiga and the Commodore-Amiga logo are registered trademarks of Amiga International Inc. AMD and NexGen are registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Amiga Explorer, Amiga Forever, ColorType, HTX, MenuBox, Personal Fonts Maker, PFM, Personal Paint, PPaint, Personal Suite, PSuite, Personal Write, PWrite and The Kara Collection are trademarks of Cloanto. AnimFonts is a registered trademark of Kara Computer Graphics. Apple and Power Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. ARexx is a trademark of Wishful Thinking Development Corp. Atari ST is a registered trademark of JTS Corp. Be is a registered trademark of Be Inc. BeOS, BeBox, the Be logo and the BeOS logo are trademarks of Be Inc. Brilliance and DCTV are trademarks of Digital Creations Inc. Broadcast Titler is a trademark of Innovision Technology Inc. Brother is a registered trademark of Brother Industries Ltd. Calligrapher, ColorFonts and ColorText are trademarks of Inter/Active Softworks. Canon is a registered trademark of Canon USA Inc. Celeron, Intel, the Intel logo, the Intel Inside logo, Pentium, the Pentium Processor logo and Xeon are registered trademarks of Intel Corp. Centronics is a trademark of Centronics Data Computer Corp. CGA, EGA, LaserPrinter, PC, Proprinter XL and VGA are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp. Cloanto, the Cloanto logo and WebShift are registered trademarks of Cloanto. Coca-Cola and Coke are registered trademarks of The Coca-Cola Company. ColorMaster is a trademark of CalComp. Commodore and the Commodore logo are registered trademarks of Commodore International B.V. Cyrix is a registered trademark of Cyrix Corporation. DeluxePaint is a registered trademark of Electronic Arts. DeskJet, LaserJet, LaserJet Plus, PaintJet and ThinkJet are trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company. Diablo and Xerox are registered trademarks of Xerox Corp. Director is a trademark of The Right Answers Group. Dos-2-Dos is a trademark of Central Coast Software. EGS 28/24 Spectrum is a trademark of Great Valley Products Inc. Epson and ESC/P are registered trademarks of Seiko Epson Corp. ESC/P2 is a trademark of Seiko Epson Corp. Express Paint is a trademark of Par Software Inc. Fargo is a registered trademark of Fargo Electronics Inc. Fujitsu is a registered trademark of Fujitsu Ltd. GIF and Graphics Interchange Format are trademarks of CompuServe Inc. Helvetica is a registered trademark of Allied Corp. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp. ImageWriter and ImageWriter II are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. LetterPro 20 is a trademark of Qume Corp. Lexmark is a trademark of Lexmark International Inc. Linux is a registered trademark licensed to Linus Torvalds. Macintosh is a registered trademark licensed to Apple Computer Inc. Microsoft, Windows and Windows NT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the USA and other countries. Motorola is a trademark of Motorola Microcomputer Corp. MS-DOS and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. MultiSync is a registered trademark of NEC Corp. NEC and Pinwriter are registered trademarks of NEC Information Systems. NeXT and OpenStep are registered trademarks of NeXT Software Inc. Okidata is a registered trademark of Okidata, a division of Oki America Inc. Pantone is a registered trademark of Pantone Corp. PCX and PC Paintbrush are trademarks of ZSoft Corp. Photon Paint is a trademark of Microillusions. Picasso is a trademark of Village Tronic Marketing GmbH. Piccolo and Rainbow are trademarks of Ingenieurb�ro Helfrich. PlayStation is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc. Polaroid is a registered trademark of Polaroid Corp. Primera is a trademark of Fargo Electronics Inc. Print Manager and Swift are trademarks of Citizen Corp. Qume is a registered trademark of Qume Corp. Retina is a trademark of MS MacroSystem Computer GmbH. Shakespeare is a trademark of Infinity Software Inc. Tektronix is a registered trademark of Tektronix Inc. TIFF is a trademark of Aldus Corp. Times is a trademark of Allied Corp. T.V. Text is a trademark of Zuma Group. Unix is a registered trademark of the Open Group. VideoTitler and SpectraColor are trademarks of Aegis, a division of Oxxi Inc.

Other product and company names mentioned in this package may be the trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.