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INSTRUCTION

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NTRODUCTION

CONGRATULATIONS on your purchase of The Amiga Action Replay which we think,

and you will soon find, is the most powerful utility available for the Amiga. With a whole

host of graphics, sound and programming features it is possible to get 100% more from

your computer. Before you start we strongly recommend that you read the manual,

even though the temptation is to plug in and go, as reading what one command does

will help you understand others. Until you are familiar with some of the more complex

coding instructions like CODE, don't use valuable disks. If you do have problems with

a command, please do not dwell on it too long, come back to it later and it may become

clearer. A few of the sections such as that on the monitor commands and the System

information are rather complex for the beginner so don't expect to understand them

straightaway. Remember that the Amiga hardware can cover many manuals, so if you

really want to learn buy, beg or borrow a few of these and soon with the help of your

Action Replay you will become an expert on the Amiga. Good luck.

I NSTALLATION

GETTING STARTED

First and foremost you must never plug in or unplug your Action Replay from your

machine while it is switched on! The installation of the two versions of Action Replay is

slightly different so please read the relevant section following.

AMIGA 500

First switch your machine off. Next on the left side of the machine by the keyboard you

will find a removable panel which hides the expansion port - it will come off but may be

a little stiff. Now, with the button and switch facing up, insert the Action Replay firmly

i nto this port; it should now be quite solid. Now switch your computer on. The green

li ght on the Action Replay will be on and the red light off. If the red light is on then the

slow-mo is active; throw the switch to disable it and the machine should boot as normal.

If the machine does not boot properly switch the machine off and repeat the installation

procedure. When the Kickstart screen appears, press the red freezer button and a blue

screen will appear - this is the screen from which you use the following commands.

Before you continue you should check the country code of your machine by pressing

the F9 key. It will toggle between US and German -there are slight differences between

the two (e.g. X and Y are reversed). Once the keymap has been set for your machine

you need not set it again till the power is switched off. To restart press X (return).

AMIGA 1500/2000

For owners of the Amiga 1500 or 2000 the installation is slightly different. You must

first switch the machine off and take the case off the machine. The slot which the Action

Replay is inserted in is the one slightly to the left of the disk drives looking from the front

(it is also slightly to the left of the 68000 chip). The connector which leads to the remote

points to the rear of the machine. Slot the card in firmly and trail the remote through an

appropriate gap in the case of the machine and keep it to hand. Put the case back on

the machine and switch the power on. The red light on the remote should be off. If it

i s on then the slow-mo is enabled; throw the switch to disable it. When the Kickstart

screen appears press the red button and a blue screen will appear. If this does not

happen repeat the installation procedure. Before you proceed check that the country

code is set correctly by pressing the F9 key a couple of times. If it is set incorrectly the

X and Y keys will be reversed. Once the keymap is set it need not be changed until the

machine is switched off.

A590

For owners of the A590 hard drive, when you see the blue screen you should press

the F3 key and clear the addmem option and set the autoconfig option. Restart the

Amiga and reboot the machine. The hard drive will boot.

There are several simple features available on the Action Replay which you will find very

useful.

( HELP)-

Probably the most used key of all, gives you a brief description

of all commands.

(SHIFT)-

No scroll / Pause

(TAB) -

I nsert spaces

(ESC) -

Will abort most commands

(F1)

Clear screen and Home cursor

(F2)

Home cursor without clearing screen

(F3)

Preference screens

(F5)

Print screen to printer if attached

(F6)

Switch printer dump on/off

(F7)

Switch between overwrite/insert mode

( F8)

Show instructions for mempeeker

(F9)

Toggle between US and German keyboards

( F10)

Switch to second screen (switch back)

When the power light is dim in Action Replay mode the computer is waiting for an

i nstruction. When it is flashing Action Replay is working on a command.

The slow-mo can be activated at any time by flicking the switch so the red light is on.

Adjusting the potentiometer will vary the speed. It is obviously not a good idea to keep

the slow-mo on during disk access and may cause loading problems.

There is one of the above function keys which requires a more detailed description

GETTING STARTED

and this is the (F3) key. This will display a preference screen which may be exited at

any time by pressing the (ESC) key.

The options are selected by using the mouse and left mouse button.

There is now a second preference screen available by clicking on the next page

box.

MEMORY CONTROL

BOOTSELECTOR

The display to the top left of the screen shows the memory available for use by the

Amiga. This can be changed by clicking on the appropriate squares which will select/

disable memory as appropriate. By clicking on the values beneath External Memory,

the area of memory can be altered.

The boot selector in the top left is used so you can get the machine to boot from any

drive. You may select any drive available or variable so that the computer will search

each drive for a bootable disk. With this option there are two things you should bear

i n mind. The first is that when you have selected this option and exited you must reboot

the machine before it will work even if you are on the kickstart screen. The second thing

is that the success of this option depends on the disk you are booting from, i.e. if it starts

to boot from disk df1: and the program tells the computer to go and read from df0: the

boot will fail, so please bear this in mind. The easiest way to try out the variable boot

i s to use an Action Replay disk that has a bootblock on it (using the install command).

MODULE INTERNA

This set of options is to do with the machine resets, and set up. The No res option

removes the Amiga Action Replay reset screen. The testl and test2 options are

apparently different types of system reconfiguration when using the X command to

restart the machine after freezing, in some cases the machine can lock up. If this

happens you should try setting the testl and/or the test2 options. The blanker option

is a screen saving facility, when switched on, if no keys are pressed on the freeze screen

for a while, then it is blanked. To get it back press any key (shift is probably best as no

keys are typed).

The bottom left section is used to select the colours that the Action Replay screen is

displayed in.

DISKCODER

The disk coding section is now available from the second preference screen. Each

option can either be enabled or disabled by clicking on the appropriate icon. For more

i nformation on these features please see the section on disk based instructions.

DRIVECONTROL

Drives can simply be turned off or on by clicking on the appropriate boxes.

MEGASTICK

VIRUS TEST

The megastick option is for the joystick translation codes which can be entered using

the megastick command.

The cwo meters on the right of the screen are used to allocate an auto fire rate for the

two joysticks. They can be set totally independently of one another so a player can be

handicapped.

Using these options you can switch off the automatic virus detection. This is useful

when you are using disks that have built in virus protection, e.g. Sentinel, which contain

parts of the viruses so they can be identified. This code is then interpreted by Action

Replay as a virus itself. Kill is useful for similar reasons. You would normally leave it

active so a virus that is found is killed. Virus boot will check the bootblock of your disk

as well as checking for a virus in memory. This option should be turned off if you are

using a hard drive.

AUTOCONFIG

The autoconfig option allows Action Replay to detect what it thinks the computer is,

for example when on it will detect and boot an A590 hard drive.

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