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Old 10-26-2012, 11:09 AM   #16
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Default Re: Why are All AMIGA Manuals so damn boring?

You're reading the wrong ones - various passages in the Reference Manuals are hilarious! We could quote them here but finding them is a major part of the fun. ;D
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Old 10-26-2012, 11:32 AM   #17
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Default Re: Why are All AMIGA Manuals so damn boring?

Be glad you got manuals with them, most things you buy these days, you're lucky if you get a folded sheet of instructions and a disc with a PDF!

I still remember the manual for AmigaVision, in it's beautiful 3-ring binder that you could lay flat to read. As I recall the A3000 came with a nice manual, as well. Ah, the good old days!
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Old 10-26-2012, 09:26 PM   #18
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Be glad you got manuals with them, most things you buy these days, you're lucky if you get a folded sheet of instructions and a disc with a PDF!

I still remember the manual for AmigaVision, in it's beautiful 3-ring binder that you could lay flat to read. As I recall the A3000 came with a nice manual, as well. Ah, the good old days!
Yup I agree. My latest pc motherboard came with a 5 page quickstart and then the manual was on a PDF on the driver disk. So unless you had another computer, which thankfully I did, you were stuffed if any problems popped up.

I do miss manuals that had useful information, detailed tips with pictures and proper technical specs.
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Old 10-27-2012, 03:54 PM   #19
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My A500 manual actually taught me a lot, and the appendices are invaluable when tinkering with the hardware. The workbench stuff is pretty unremarkable, though.
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Old 10-27-2012, 05:24 PM   #20
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Genesis is have no manual, you had to set up CDTV before you could watch how to set up CDTV.
As it was on CD-Rom in those days nobody had CD-Rom drives! Even if did I think video was in CDXL file, so only Amiga was able to play it.
PS It wasn't that hard set up CDTV but... just saying!
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