ENGLISH.TXT

A help file to get you started with EMULA

Unfortunately, no one has translated the documentation for EMULA,
so here's a short description of how to install and use EMULA. 
This info was obtained by my experimentation with EMULA, and my
very limited (i.e., bad) knowledge of German, so this is NOT a
complete and accurate description.  It should be enough to get you
started, however.

Basically, EMULA5_1.PRG should be placed into the AUTO folder of a
boot disk.  EMULA5_1.PRG must be the first program to run when the
system is booted, so make sure it is the first program in the AUTO
folder!  To ensure that it is the first program, create a new AUTO
folder, copy EMULA5_1.PRG into it FIRST, then copy any other AUTO-
programs you want into the folder.

WARNING:  DO NOT INSTALL EMULA ON YOUR AUTO-BOOT HARD DISK!  EMULA
does some nifty tricks with GEM, so it may not like other AUTO
programs, or even desk accessories.  Don't risk being locked out
of your hard drive.  Experiment with your AUTO-programs and
accessories on a floppy drive BEFORE you try installing EMULA on a
hard drive!

When you boot your ST with EMULA in the AUTO folder, a menu will
appear.  At this point, you can choose F for color or M for
monochrome.  If you have a color system, and you choose F, EMULA
simply boots you into color mode.  But, if you choose M, EMULA
displays a fuzzy-looking but usable monochrome desktop!  Because
of the programming overhead, the monitor refresh rate is slower,
so your desktop is jerky and slow.

If you have a monochrome system and you choose M, you will see
your normal desktop.  If you choose F, you will see an EMULA
imitation of the low-res desktop.  It will cover only the left
half of the screen, since there's only 320 X-pixels in low-res
(there is a way to force low-res to appear on the whole screen,
more about that later.)  As mentioned above, the emulated screen
is slow.

If you copy EMULA_U5.ACC to your boot disk, you will have access
to an accessory called EMULA Anpassung.  This ACC lets you modify
the way that the emulated screen is displayed.  For instance, if
you choose 1 from the first dialog while in emulated low-res, the
desktop stretches out to fill the whole screen.  Similarly, if you
choose 1 while in monochrome emulation, your fuzzy desktop becomes
a clear, scrolling screen.  You'll have to experiment with the
rest of the items.  (One of the items is obviously a mouse
accelerator, but I'm not sure what the others are.)

If START comes across an English translation of the documentation,
we will certainly place it onto the START disk.  If you take it
upon yourself to tackle the translation, please send it to START,
so we can put it on the disk.

                                        Jim Burton
                                        Tech Editor
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