Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2794 from 2006/3/21
From: Northern Calif...
@Newsense,
If you read this thread more carefully, you would see that sacc-user did not download and burn his own CD of MorphOS3.x, but was handed an CD by someone else (maybe me), so he did not know what the official website looked like initially.
@Jadacaps,
I haven't exactly bolted away from writing, or updating any of the MorphOS documentation, but would better describe it as never stepping up to the plate (to use an American Baseball term), to take on that responsibility.
Other than being incredibly lazy and drugged with pain relievers, or doing things for my children and grandchild when ever I can, I also feel inadequate in my knowledge of MorphOS to take on such tasks. But those are pretty feeble excuses to avoid doing the boring work of updating, or creating new documentation.
Maybe some day I will contribute something to the MorphZone.org Library that is useful to new users.
@Intuition,
As Jadacaps already suggested, I also think some of the most useful documents would be simple step-by-step "How-To" documents, for users who don't like following traditional software documentation and end up asking the same questions that have been previously asked by other new users. In addition to MUI and Ambient suggestions that Jadacaps made, may I suggest answering common questions about how to adjust settings and scripts for the Odyssey web browser, how to integrate E-UAE so that it auto-starts when certain game icons are double clicked (like RunInUAE works I guess), how to adjust settings and scripts for M-Player, or some other media player so new users can enjoy watching videos, or listening to their music on MorphOS. Another useful How-To would be to explain what Grunch is and how to best use it to download and install many applications and utilities, and keep them updated.
Maybe these few examples already have simple How-To documents created for them as I have not searched for them, but it is these kinds of things in general that I think are useful to new users.
Truthfully, I have not been using MorphOS the last year, but hope to use it more, now that version 3.2 has better working wireless networking available and my 2nd PowerBook, that I used to run MacOSX on, is down for repairs. I tried getting online via wireless yesterday, but could not connect to my router and will try again today, as I know it works from setting it up at last months CommVEx show in Las Vegas. I'll go search through the documentation and wireless threads here for hints that might help me connect via WPA, or WPA2.
[ Edited by amigadave 18.08.2013 - 12:59 ]MorphOS - The best Next Gen Amiga choice.
