Amiga Emulator FAQ

Workbench 2.0 Preferences

• 1. Font
  • Sets the font for Workbench icons, system default and screen text.
  • Large proportional fonts should be avoided.
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• 2. IControl
  • Sets the Intution functions for moving screens and function.
  • Screen Drag: Use Left mouse button and a qualifer (left Amiga key) to move the screen
  • Coercion: Set 'Avoid flicker' and 'Preserve colors' settings
  • Misc: Set 'Screen menu snap' and 'Text gadget filter' settings.
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• 3. Input
  • Mouse Speed: Set speed of mouse (1-3)
  • Acceleration: Set even fast mouse movement.
  • Double-Click Delay: Set time between clicks for double click on left mouse button
  • Show Double-Click: Display white bar when double-clicked.
  • Test Double-Click: Display message when button double-clicked.
  • Key repeat delay: Sets the time between first key press and when the same key is repeated.
  • Key repeat rate: Sets how fast the character is repeated.
  • Keyboard: Press keys here to test key repeat settings.
  • Keyboard type: Set character set for keyboard (copy keymaps from Extras disk for more keymaps).
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• 4. Locale
  • Available Languages: Select language for text to use for Workbench.
  • Preferred Languages: Selected languages are list here.
  • Country: Select preferred country for localized settings.
  • Time Zone: Select one of 24 time zones on map for time.
  • NB: See Locale disk for more country and languages to use.
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• 5. Overscan
  • Monitor Type: Type of monitor to use e.g PAL, NTSC etc.
  • Dimensions: Indicates minimum and maximum possible overscan size of screen for text and graphics.
  • Edit text size: Change screen size for text.
  • Edit graphics size: Change screen size for graphics.
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• 6. Palette
  • Change the Red, Green, Blue colours for Workbench. Select a colour from colour block and use the RGB
    color sliders to change the values (0-15).
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• 7. Pointer
  • Pointer image. You can change the shape of the pointer by setting or clearing pixels
  • Test. Apply changes to actual pointer to test the new image and colors used.
  • Clear. Clears the entire pointer image.
  • Set Point. Allows you to set the click pointer location indicated by small orange squire (usually top left of image).
  • Reset Colors. Restores colour setting back to default.
  • Colours. You can set the colours used for pointer using Red, Green, Blue sliders.
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• 8. Printer
  • Printer type. Select printer driver from the list. More drivers available on the Storage disk and on Aminet.
  • Printer port. Printer can be connected via parallel port or serial port.
  • Pitch. Sets the size in point size of the text in dots per inch.
  • Spacing. Sets how many lines per inch on each page of paper.
  • Quality. Sets the quality of printed output, draft will be faster, useful for just test and Letter for slower high quality output.
  • Paper type. Set the type of paper to either Fanfold used by Dot Matrix or line printers or Single for daisy wheel, inkjet or laser printers.
  • Paper format. Select the standard paper size you require which determine the width and length of the paper.
  • Length. Set the number of lines per sheet of paper.
  • Left margin. Sets left margin width in characters.
  • Right margin. Sets right margin width in characters.
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• 9. PrinterGfx
  • Dithering. Selects type of dithering used between pixels: Ordered, Half-Time or Floyd-Steinberg (F-S).
  • Scaling. Set the scaling of the image by Fraction or Integer type.
  • Image. Sets the image or normal positive or reverse colours (negative).
  • Aspect. Sets whether print is sent horizontally (landscape) or vertically (portrait).
  • Shade. Sets type of colour or not is used: Black and White, Grayscale 1 or 2 or Color mode.
  • Threshold. Sets the threshold between light and dark colours for graphic output.
  • Density. Sets the amount of Dots Per Inch (DPI) for the image to improve resolution.
  • Color Correction. Change Red Green Blue colours to increase or decrease the number of colours available.
  • Left edge. Sets width of left edge in inches/10.
  • Limits. Set the kind of limit setting to use: Ignore, bounded, absolute, pixels or multiply.
  • Width limit. Set limits of width of paper in various sizes, if Limits not ignored.
  • Height limit. Set limits of height of paper in various sizes, if Limits not ignored.
  • Smoothing. Enabled smoother output to improve sharpness of the image.
  • Center Picture. Enables centering of the image.
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• 10. PrinterPS
  • Driver Mode. Set to PostScript or Pass Through.
  • Copies. Number of copies of prints to send to printer.
  • Paper format. Select the standard paper size you require which determine the width and length of the paper.
  • Paper width. Width in inches.
  • Paper height. Height in inches.
  • Horizontal DPI. Quality of image in Dots per inch.
  • Vertical DPI.Quality of image in Dots per inch.
  • Text options. Set font, pitch, orentation and tab width.
  • Text dimensions. Set margins, font size, line leading, and lines per inch and page.
  • Graphics options. Set edge size, width, height, image, shading, dithering and tranparent settings.
  • Graphics scaling. Set aspect, scaling type and math and centering with sample scalings.
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• 11. ScreenMode
  • Display Mode. Select monitor type, resolution.
  • Width. Width of screen in pixels.
  • Height. Height of screen in pixels.
  • Colors: Number of colours (2-16)
  • Autoscroll. Scrolled enabled.
  • Mode properties. Current settings shown here.
  • NB: To improve graphics, use RTG using Picasso96 or CyberGraphX drivers.
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• 12. Serial
  • Baud rate. Set the number of symbols or modulation rate per second sent over a serial connection.
  • Input Buffer Size. The amount of memory to temporarily store data while is is being transmitted or received over serial connection.
  • Handshaking.
    • The methods of how different computers communicate together.
      • xON and xOFF = Transmit on and transmit off method of software flow control .
      • RTS and CTS = Request to Send and Clear to Send method of hardware flow control.
      • None = No handshaking used.
  • Parity. How data is verified by using parity checks which can be Even, Odd or None.
  • Bits / Char. Data is read in bytes (8 x 1s or 0s), you can set the number of bits used for data.
  • Stop Bits. Number of bits to indicate then end of data (stop data).
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• 13. Sound
  • Flash Display. Flashes the display when intuition tries to flash screen. Equivalent to a beep.
  • Make Sound. Also make a sound when flashing screen.
  • Sound type. Set type of sound: Beep or Sampled Sound.
  • Sound Volume. Set volume of sound (0-64)
  • Sound pitch. Set pitch of sound (1-3000)
  • Beep length. Length of beep (1-100)
  • Select Sample. Filename of sampled sound (IFF file only).
  • Test Sound. Play the beep or sampled sound.
  • NB: To improve sound, and not use the Paula chip, use AHI drivers with a sound card.
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• 14. Time
  • Year. Enter year here.
  • Month. Select month here.
  • Date. Select day of month.
  • Hours. Select hour of the day.
  • Minutes. Select the minutes.
  • NB: If the Amiga has a battey backed clock then the date and time is remembered otherwise
    it has to be set on every boot.
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• 15. WBPattern
  • Pattern. Select whether pattern applies to Workbench or on windows.
  • Test. Test the pattern on Workbench or window.
  • Clear. Remove pattern and set to appropiate colour.
  • Undo. Discard the last change.
  • Pattern. Selected single pattern shown here
  • Colours. Colours shown.
  • Pattern sample. Tiled pattern or colour shown here.
  • Presets. Choice of patterns to use.
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