Amiga Hardware Reference Manual Reboot

SparkyNZ · 14 May 2015, 11:26

I may be just lost in nostalgia.. but wouldn't it be nice to find a "revision 4.0" Amiga Hardware Ref Manual? I know that no such edition ever existed.. but there was an AGA update or set of guidelines provided that came with the Amiga SDK.

With all of the lovely modern day DTP/word processing tools.. wouldn't it be nice to reboot the revision 3.0 and update it with the AGA info and make it available as a nice .PDF?

Nosferax · 14 May 2015, 14:06

Go for it...

Lonewolf10 · 16 May 2015, 23:35

Yup, that would be great.

All the info we ever need in one source

SparkyNZ · 16 May 2015, 23:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lonewolf10

Yup, that would be great.

All the info we ever need in one source

I'd have a go myself if I could find a decent PDF to Word .docx converter. I tied a few online ones with the PDF I have of the 3rd edition PDF with all the original diagrams but it wouldn't process. I'm a bit busy with another project at the moment so it will be some time before I return to tinkering with the Amiga.

kamelito · 17 May 2015, 15:28

use Word for that.
Kamelito

SparkyNZ · 17 May 2015, 21:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by kamelito

use Word for that.
Kamelito

How do you do that? You must have a third party plugin to do that? File->Open gives me no .PDF file types. If I select "All Types (*.*)" and open it, I get the encoded PDF, not a nice document that can be edited..

Code:

%PDF-1.6
  %âãÏÓ
  1 0 obj
  <</Metadata 17 0 R/OpenAction 18 0 R/PageLayout/SinglePage/Pages 2 0 R/Type/Catalog>>
  endobj
  17 0 obj
  <</Length 3373/Subtype/XML/Type/Metadata>>stream
  <?xpacket begin="ï»¿" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="Adobe XMP Core 4.2.1-c043

kamelito · 17 May 2015, 23:47

I suppose that it depends of the Word version the version tested was 11 IIRC not 3rd party or anything just loaded pdf and saved .docx
Kamelito

SparkyNZ · 18 May 2015, 00:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by kamelito

I suppose that it depends of the Word version the version tested was 11 IIRC not 3rd party or anything just loaded pdf and saved .docx
Kamelito

Would you be happy to save the HW ref as a .docx for me please if I send you a link? Its the one on Bombjacks's awesome website that I'd be using:

http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/am...rd_Edition.zip

ovale · 18 May 2015, 06:38

It would be great if you include the undocumented features reported by Toni Wilen here in EAB.

SparkyNZ · 18 May 2015, 07:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by ovale

It would be great if you include the undocumented features reported by Toni Wilen here in EAB.

If I do go ahead and do this, I'll make the document "open source", so to speak, so it an be maintained by anybody.

14 May 2015, 11:26	#1
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