Short:    Oberon System V4 Beta release (0.8+)
Author:   ludwig@inf.ethz.ch (Stefan Ludwig, Claudio Nieder)
Uploader: degner@pallas.amp.uni-hannover.de (Ralf Degner)
Type:     dev/obero

This is the V4 Beta release (0.8) of "Oberon for Amiga" of ETH Zurich.

This release includes a small bugfix in Files.ReadSet and Files.WriteSet.

"Oberon for Amiga" requires at least an MC68020 and a minimum of 1MByte of
free memory. Floating point calculations (types REAL and LONGREAL)
additionally require a FPU. If you do not own a FPU delete the files
ClockElems.Obj and ClockElems.Sym in directory System.
We have tested it on WB3.0. This version requires WB2.0 or better,
but the screen mode requester will be available only with WB3.0 or better.
Screen depth, height and width can now be changed in WB2.0
too, using the System.ChangeMode command with arguments. System.ShowMode will
supply them for the current setting. Just edit, and apply ChangeMode.

NOTE: Oberon for Amiga doesn't work on XFH file systems.

"Oberon for Amiga" is distributed as an lha archive. The Oberon directory
should be put in your command search path. "Oberon for Amiga" is started
using the Oberon icon.

  Example for an installation:

    Extract the contents of the archive file into the current directory
  	lha -a x df0:Oberon.lha

Note: If you already installed Oberon for Amiga 0.6, you should use
a new directory, as this beta uses subdirectories for different kind of files.

  If you installed Oberon for Amiga 0.7, you should first delete the contents
  of the System directory, as now these files are split over more directories.

  Don't store your private files into one of the subdirectories, but rather
  use the top directory, or a separate one, which you can add in the OBERON:
  assign in the Oberon script.

When started for the first time, "Oberon for Amiga" will ask for the preferred
screen mode and resolution (only WB3.0 or better). This information will be
stored in the environment variable AmigaOberon. The command System.ChangeMode
can be used to change the value at a later time.

Now you should read the file Release.Notes.Text, to find out what has changed
since the last release or Welcome.Text if you use the system for the first
time.

If "Oberon for Amiga" gets out of control (e.g. because of a looping command),
use the KillOberon icon to terminate it. The Amiga OS has problems if a process
is interrupted, while it is waiting for a message reply. To avoid problems,
Ctrl-C refuses to work, when it detects a possible critical situation.

System.Quit terminates the Oberon process. It is the normal way to leave
"Oberon for Amiga".

Note: If you want read the Welcome.Text on an Amiga without an FPU, then
you have to first delete the file ClockElems.Obj in directory system.

Please mail any bugs encountered to ludwig@inf.ethz.ch, to which you can
also direct questions.

			claudio / stefan    24-Nov-1994