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- Installation
- ------------
- You will need to open a shell to install ACE. Installation consists of:
-
- - Extracting the four archives found in the single supplied ACE
- archive.
-
- - Adding a few commands to your s:user-startup (Wb 2.x/3.0) or
- s:startup-sequence (Wb 1.3) file.
-
- The ACE distribution archive contains:
-
- - MAIN.lha (main ACE files with a few examples)
- - DOCS.lha (documentation for ACE,A68K and Blink)
- - PRGS.lha (more example programs)
- - AIDE.lha (a graphical front-end for ACE)
-
- All four will fit onto a single floppy disk in their compressed form.
-
- You must now extract the files from each archive with:
-
- lha x <archive>
-
- If you have a hard disk, just extract all four archives into a directory
- created for ACE (eg: sys:ACE). Extract MAIN.lha first. This will set up the
- directory structure and main ACE files.
-
- The extraction of MAIN.lha also creates three subdirectories for the last
- three archives. So, finally, extract DOCS.lha, PRGS.lha and AIDE.lha into
- the docs, prgs and AIDE subdirectories.
-
- If you are using a floppy-only system, extract MAIN.lha onto one disk and
- the last three archives onto other disks to suit yourself. The disk on which
- the main ACE files reside is the volume to which the shell commands discussed
- below refer.
-
- You now have all the files you require to use ACE.
-
- Next, add the following lines to your user-startup or startup-sequence
- script:
-
- assign ACE: <volume or directory>
- path ACE:bin add
-
- where <volume or directory> is the name of the disk or directory where
- the main ACE files now reside (eg: assign ACE: sys:ACE).
-
- In addition, you need to add three more statements to your startup-sequence
- or user-startup script:
-
- assign ACElib: ACE:lib ; bas finds scanned libraries here.
- assign ACEbmaps: ACE:bmaps ; ace looks here for .bmap files.
- assign ACEinclude: ACE:include ; app uses this for include files.
-
- You may also have to set the "s" bit on ACE:bin/bas if it was lost during
- the unarchiving process. Do this with the following command:
-
- protect ACE:bin/bas +s add
-
- If you're not sure, do it anyway. This simply lets you run the bas script
- without having to use the "execute" command.
-
- Now reboot your Amiga to let the above path and assign commands take effect.
-
- That's it!
-
- ** Note: As an alternative to these startup script modifications, you can
- use the "ACEsetup" script to be found in MAIN.lha. Read the comments at
- the top of that script for usage details.
-