"How To" Documentation
How to?How do I access AROS's disk images from UAE?The floppy disk image can be mounted as a hardfile and then used as a 1.4 MB harddisk within UAE. After you have put the files you want on the hardfile disk image (or whatever you wanted to do), you can write it to a floppy. The geometry of the hardfile is as follows: Sectors = 32 Surfaces = 1 Reserved = 2 Block Size = 90 How do I access AROS's disk images from hosted flavors of AROS?Copy the disk image to the DiskImages directory in AROS (SYS:DiskImages, e.g. bin/linux-i386/AROS/DiskImages) and rename it to "Unit0". After starting AROS, you can mount the disk image with: > mount AFD0: How can I restore my Prefs to defaults?In AROS, open CLI shell, go to Envarc: and delete relevant files for the pref you want to restore. How do I change the screensaver/background?At the moment the only way to change screensaver is to write your own one. Blanker commodity could be tuned with Exchange, but it is able to do only "starfield" with given amount of stars. Background of Wanderer is set by Pref tool Prefs/Wanderer. Background of Zune Windows is set by Zune prefs Prefs/Zune. You can also set your chosen application preferences by using the Zune <application> command. How can I make windows refresh from black on AROS-hosted?You must supply the following string (as is!) to the "Device" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or XFree.conf): Option "BackingStore" See Installation for details. How can I transfer files to virtual machine with AROS?First and simplest way is to put files to the ISO image and and connect it to VM. There's a lot of programs able to create/edit ISO's like UltraISO, WinImage, or mkisofs. Second, you can set up the network in AROS and FTP server on your host machine. Then you can use FTP client for AROS to transfer files (look for MarranoFTP). This is tricky enough to stop at this point. User documentation contains a chapter about networking, go for it. Also, now there`s a promising utility (AFS Util), allowing to read (no write support yet) files from AROS AFFS/OFS disks and floppies. How do I clear the shell window? How do I set it permanently?Type this command in the shell: Echo "*E[0;0H*E[J* " You can edit your S:Shell-Startup and insert this line somewhere, so you'll have a new "Cls" command: Alias Cls "Echo *"*E[0;0H*E[J*" " BTW: here is my new S:Shell-Startup modified to start the shell in black and with a modified prompt: Alias Edit SYS:Tools/Editor Alias Cls "Echo *"*E[0;0H*E[J*" " Echo "*e[>1m*e[32;41m*e[0;0H*e[J" Prompt "*n*e[>1m*e[33;41m*e[1m%N/%R - *e[30;41m%S>*e[0m*e[32;41m " date More about printer escape sequences: Esc[0m Standard Set Esc[1m and Esc[22m Bold Esc[3m and Esc[23m Italics Esc[4m and Esc[24m Underline Esc[30m to Esc[39m Set Front Color Esc[40m to Esc[49m Set Background Color Values meanings: 30 grey char -- 40 grey cell -- >0 grey background ---- 0 all attributes off 31 black char - 41 black cell - >1 black background --- 1 boldface 32 white char - 42 white cell - >2 white background --- 2 faint 33 blue char -- 43 blue cell -- >3 blue background ---- 3 italic 34 grey char -- 44 grey cell -- >4 grey background ---- 4 underscore 35 black char - 45 black cell - >5 black background --- 7 reverse video 36 white char - 46 white cell - >6 white background --- 8 invisible 37 blue char -- 47 blue cell -- >7 blue background The codes can be combined by separating them with a semicolon. How do I launch AROS-hosted in fullscreen?Start AROS with the option "--fullscreen". How to make 2-state AROS Icons?AROS icons are actually renamed PNG files. But if you want icons in two states (normal/selected) use this command: join img_1.png img_2.png TO img.info How to mount an ISO image on AROS? And can I update my nightly build this way?
And so on for each directory except Prefs, Extras:Networking/Stacks, and devs:mountlist itself. Prefs have to be kept if you want it. Also you can set AROSTcp to keep its settings in separate directory. If you want to write all over, just do: copy ISO:C sys:C all quiet newer How to unmount a volume?Launch these two commands in CLI: assign DOSVOLUME: dismount assign DOSVOLUME: remove where DOSVOLUME is DH0:, DF0:, etc How to mount a FAT Floppy with the FAT.handler?Currently the FAT volumes are autodetected and automounted, but here`s how to manually mount it. Create a mountfile (text file) with the 3 magic lines: device = trackdisk.device filesystem = fat.handler unit = 0
How to mount a real HD FAT partition with the FAT.handler?Currently the FAT volumes are autodetected and automounted, but here`s how to manually mount it. First you`d need to read the drive`s geometry and write down some values. You can use HDToolbox or Linux fdisk for that. The BlocksPerTrack value is taken from the sectors/track value. Note that it has absolutely nothing to do with the physical disk geometry - FAT only uses it as a multiplier. If you get the Cylinders e.g. from HDToolbox or using the Linux fdisk like this: sudo fdisk -u -l /dev/hda, Then you'll need to set BlocksPerTrack=63. To ensure you have numbers in cylinders look for Units=Cylinders in output. If you got fdisk output in sectors (Units=sectors), set BlocksPerTrack=1. LowCyl and HighCyl are partition`s cylinders like: mark@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l -u /dev/hda ... /dev/hda1 * 63 20980889 10490413+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) So, LowCyl is 63, and HighCyl is 20980889, blockspertrack=1 Create a mountfile (text file) with these lines: device = ata.device filesystem = fat.handler, Unit = 0 BlocksPerTrack = 1 LowCyl = 63 HighCyl = 20980889 Blocksize=512
Note: Formula for counting the blocks: block = ((highcyl - lowcyl) x surfaces + head) x blockspertrack + sec How to use joystick or gamepad with AROS?Just plug in your digital/analogue joystick or gamepad into USB port. The device will be handled by Poseidon USB stack. How to change joystick mode to analogue?By default a connected USB joystick emulates Amiga digital joystick. To change this behaviour so that the joystick is presented as analogue you need to use Trident preferences application (System:Prefs/Trident). Open Trident and go to Devices window. Select your controller from the list and then click on Settings button. This will open a new window. On the "General" tab find the "Lowlevel Library Joypad Emulation" section. Find ports which are set to "Merge with USB" or "Override with USB" and change them into "Analogue Hack" Please note that analogue joystick support is an extension of original Amiga functionality, thus an Amiga application must be explicitly written to use it. AROS SDL library uses this functionality, thus all SDL applications that use joystick, can use the analogue joystick feature. How to change joystick port assignment?By default a connected USB joystick is present in Port 1. To change its location to Port 0 you need to use Trident preferences. Open Trident and go to Devices window. Select your controller from the list and then click on Settings button. This will open a new window. On the "General" tab find the "Lowlevel Library Joypad Emulation" section. Port 1 should be set as either "Merge with USB" or "Override with USB". Change this setting to "Don't touch". Change Port 0 setting to "Merge with USB". Go to "Actions" tab. In the "Reports and collection" select first entry named "Joystick". in the "Usage items" select "X axis". Go to "Performed actions" area. On the left there will be a list of triggers. Each of them should have (port1) in their params. Click on the first trigger and using buttons to the right of the list change port1 into port 0. Repeat this for all triggers and for all items on "Usage items" list. How to make joystick simulate keyboard keys?With Poseidon it is possible to make the joystick simulate the keyboard pressings. This might enable using joystick for playing games which only have keyboard support. This feature is configured in Trident preferences. Open Trident and go to Devices window. Select your controller from the list and then click on Settings button. This will open a new window. Go to "Actions" tab. On the right top window select X axis. On the left bottom list select an entry "Digital Joystick, Push left(port 1)". On the panel to the right change "Digital joystick" into "Raw Key". A list of keys will be displayed. Select key you wish to send. Repeat the same procedure for "Digital Joystick, Release left (port 1)" option but this time check "Send key up even instead of key down". Open shell and move your joystick to the left - your selected letter should appear in the shell. |
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