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JPV at 07:57, 22 May 2025

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JPV: FireWire Debugging

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FireWire Debugging

JPV at 07:07, 27 November 2023

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JPV at 06:58, 27 November 2023

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JPV: /* Keyboard Commands */

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‎Keyboard Commands

JPV: Lame URL

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Lame URL

JPV at 18:12, 20 July 2020

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JPV at 18:10, 20 July 2020

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Polluks: /* Copying a CD/DVD to an ISO Image */ typo

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‎Copying a CD/DVD to an ISO Image: typo

JPV at 12:06, 20 April 2019

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 === Removing Startup Sound on Macs ===
-: Sadly there isn't any known way to disable that annoying startup sound from MorphOS itself or from Open Firmware, but there are few different ways to achieve it anyway.
+: The annoying startup sound can be removed from the '''Sound preferences''' on MorphOS nowadays. Set the '''Boot Chime Volume''' to zero to mute it.
 :* If you plan to use Mac as MorphOS only system, but you still have OSX installed, you can mute the audio from OSX before wiping it out by installing MorphOS. Startup sound doesn't come back if you won't boot into OSX anymore.
 :* If you don't have OSX anymore, you could try to remove sound with some Linux distribution's live/installation CD. More info [http://www.meta-morphos.org/faq.php?id_cat=2&myfaq=yes&categories=Installation+et+d%E9marrage#74 here] and [https://morphosuser.wordpress.com/2014/12/28/removing-the-boot-sound/ here].

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	: <tt>editenv morphosargs</tt>		: <tt>editenv morphosargs</tt>
	: <tt>saveenv</tt>		: <tt>saveenv</tt>
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		+	=== FireWire Debugging ===
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		+	: It's possible to transfer MorphOS debug logs to another computer via a FireWire connection. Please read [https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=12759&post_id=143825&viewmode=flat&sortorder=0&showonepost=1 this post at MorphZone] for more information.

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 === Modifying the System Directory ===
-: Tip #1: NEVER modify anything in the MOSSYS: (SYS:MorphOS/) path! All the changes are lost in the system upgrade. If you need to add any 3rd party drivers or libraries, add them to SYS:. If there isn't a correct directory by default, make one.
+: Tip #1: NEVER modify anything in the MOSSYS: (SYS:MorphOS/) path! All changes are lost in a system upgrade. If you need to add any 3rd party drivers or libraries, add them to SYS:. If there isn't a correct directory by default, make one.
-: There's only one exception (of course there is one) to this: you can rename MOSSYS:Libs/rexxsyslib.library to MOSSYS:Libs/rexxsyslib.library_disabled when you copy 68k version of rexxsyslib.library to SYS:Libs/ in order to get the AREXX working.
+: There's only one exception (of course there is one) to this: you can rename MOSSYS:Libs/rexxsyslib.library to MOSSYS:Libs/rexxsyslib.library_disabled when you copy a 68k version of rexxsyslib.library to SYS:Libs/ in order to get the ARexx environment working.
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 :* ipc.'''address(port)''' - sets the default ARexx port. Port "COMMAND" executes commands as DOS shell commands.
-:* '''ipc.checkport(port)''' - checks if ARexx port is available.
+:* '''ipc.checkport(port)''' - checks if an ARexx port is available.
-:* ipc.'''rx(command)''' - sends command to a port set with ipc.address. It returns ARexx RESULT.
+:* ipc.'''rx(command)''' - sends a command to a port set with ipc.address. It returns ARexx RESULT.
-:* '''ipc.waitforport(name[, interval])''' - Waits for a ARexx port. Script is aborted if the port isn't found.
+:* '''ipc.waitforport(name[, interval])''' - Waits for an ARexx port. Script is aborted if the port isn't found.
 : More about the topic [[Getting_Started_with_Lua|here]].

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 : Load the IPC module first with the '''require 'ipc'''' line (unlike the standard Lua distribution, all modules have to be loaded with the ''require'' function on MorphOS. Check available modules from the ''MOSSYS:Libs/Lua/'' directory.)
-:* ipc.address(port) - sets the default ARexx port. Port "COMMAND" executes commands as DOS shell commands.
+:* ipc.'''address(port)''' - sets the default ARexx port. Port "COMMAND" executes commands as DOS shell commands.
-:* ipc.checkport(port) - checks if ARexx port is available.
+:* '''ipc.checkport(port)''' - checks if ARexx port is available.
-:* ipc.rx(command) - sends command to a port set with ipc.address. It returns ARexx RESULT.
+:* ipc.'''rx(command)''' - sends command to a port set with ipc.address. It returns ARexx RESULT.
-:* ipc.waitforport(name[, interval]) - Waits for a ARexx port. Script is aborted if the port isn't found.
+:* '''ipc.waitforport(name[, interval])''' - Waits for a ARexx port. Script is aborted if the port isn't found.
-: Few examples can be found from [http://jpv.wmhost.com/morphos/ here].
+: More about the topic [[Getting_Started_with_Lua|here]].

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 : Other keys:
-:* To zoom Ambient icons in icon mode: keep CTRL pressed and use the mouse wheel.
+:* To zoom Ambient icons in the icon mode: keep CTRL pressed and use the mouse wheel or just roll the wheel over the Viewmode button.
-:* To find and select files in Ambient windows by letter: start typing the wanted name when the window is active. Keep shift-key pressed for directories.
+:* To find and select files in Ambient windows by letters: start typing a name when the window is active. Keep the Shift key pressed for directories.
 :* To enter a path manually (for example for hidden dirs like .recycled): press the / key in an Ambient window and type in the path.
 :* Command-f activates the find function in most programs.
-:* The r-key rotates the pictures in Ambient's internal viewer and page up/down keys select previous and next images in a dir
+:* The r key rotates the pictures in Ambient's internal viewer and Page Up/Down keys select previous and next images in a dir
-:* Check the keyboard commands of the shell, like by default, commands can be completed with CTRL-tab, devices with ALT-tab, history with shift-tab etc.
+:* Check keyboard commands of the Shell, like by default, commands can be completed with CTRL-tab, devices with ALT-tab, history with shift-tab etc.
-:* Keeping the alt-key pressed while double clicking drawer gives you different ways to open drawers.
+:* Keeping the Alt key pressed while double clicking a drawer gives you different ways to open drawers.
+:* Keeping the Alt key pressed while dragging files on the same partition copies files instead of moving, or vice versa depending on your Ambient settings.
 === Enabling/Disabling Icon Tooltypes ===

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	: This will encode tracks to mp3 files with title, artist, album and track number tags. It also embeds fetched cover image in files, if image was found.		: This will encode tracks to mp3 files with title, artist, album and track number tags. It also embeds fetched cover image in files, if image was found.
−	: Example assumes you have [~~http~~://morphos-~~files~~.net/~~find.php~~?find=lame LAME] installed in C:	+	: Example assumes you have [https://www.morphos-storage.net/?find=lame LAME] installed in C:

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 : You can select Unit 0 as the Music Unit in AHI to be able hear audio output from multiple programs at the same time, with a slight decrease in quality.
 : [[File:MorphOS_System_settings_Music_Unit.png|280px]]
 === Keeping AHI Audio Quality Better ===
 : Audio quality with AHI will be better if you reduce available channels for its shared modes (Unit 0 usually). Available channels will limit the amount of simultaneus playback of sounds, but you really don't need the default 32 channels and even two channels can be quite enough. Should there be more concurrent sounds, some of them just get muted until the other have been finished.
 : [[File:MorphOS_System_settings_Change_Unit.png|280px]] [[File:MorphOS_System_settings_Unit_0.png|280px]]

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 === Copying a CD/DVD to an ISO Image ===
-: If you want to make a standard, easily mountable, ISO image out of an existing CD or DVD, a good way to achieve it is to use the ReadCD program provided with the Jalapeno program on the standard MorphOS installation. Jalapeno itself can also create image files of optical medias by selecting "Save as..." from the "Copy Tracks" pull-down menu, but resulting images aren't mountable by the system, because Jalapeno uses options that include more data into the images, for error checking etc.
+: If you want to make a standard, easily mountable, ISO image out of an existing CD or DVD, a good way to achieve it is to use the ReadCD program provided with the Jalapeno program on the standard MorphOS installation. Jalapeno itself can also create image files of optical media by selecting "Save as..." from the "Copy Tracks" pull-down menu, but resulting images aren't mountable by the system, because Jalapeno uses options that include more data into the images, for error checking etc.
 : Do these steps from the shell to read a CD/DVD into a standard ISO image:
 :# Find your CD drive device by typing: MOSSYS:Data/Jalapeno/readcd -scanbus
 :# Create an ISO image by typing (replace "1,1,0" to what you saw in the previous step, and the image path to what you want): MOSSYS:Data/Jalapeno/readcd -dev 1,1,0 f=ram:image.iso
 === Disabling the Default UTF-8 Mode with Scribble ===

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 : To set an argument (in this example we'd disable an unsupported SCSI controller by removing the SCSI driver from the boot image by using the ''module filter (mf)'' boot argument):
 : <tt>setenv morphosargs mf=symbios.device</tt>
 : <tt>saveenv</tt>