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Configuration


[File Selector: Store Directories?]
You can choose if the File Selector is to remember (store) the five most recent directories that you viewed, when using it.

[Set Text Reader screen]
A working screen is summoned as for the [Set Editor Screen] option. Please refer above for details.

[Set File Selector screen]
Similarly, you are able to change the default settings for the File Selector screen, using this option. You are warned that bigger screens consume more memory!

[Set System Configuration Page 2]
Here is a list of the options called up when this item is selected. The first five of these options are all operated by slider bars.

[Maximum number of Bobs]
This number can be set from a maximum of 256, down to eight. Please refer to Chapter 7.2 for a full discussion of Blitter Objects.

[Maximum Height of Sprites]
The maximum height of Sprites can be set from 16 Raster lines up to 312. Please see Chapter 7.1 for details.

[Copper List Buffer size (K.Bytes)]
The available allocation ranges from 2k up to 32k. Full details of the Copper list are given in Appendix F.

[Variable Name Buffer size (K.Bytes)]
This can be set in the range from 1k up to 32k.

[Default Text Buffer size (K.Bytes)]
The allocation for the text buffer may be set from 1k, all the way up to 512k. There is also a [Set Text buffer] option available from the [Editor] main menu.

[Default printer port]
[Default serial port]
Click on the [Prt:] or [Aux:] panel, and type in your preferences from the keyboard, then press [Return].

When you have selected your new preferences, and quit these menus, a dialogue box will appear regarding saving and re-booting.

Saving memory
If your system uses an external 3.5-inch disc drive, approximately 30k of memory can be saved by deactivating it before switching on and loading AMOS Professional.

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