Short:    Oberon System V4 for Amiga V1.3
Author:   degner@pallas.amp.uni-hannover.de (Stefan Ludwig, Claudio Nieder, Ralf Degner)
Uploader: degner@pallas.amp.uni-hannover.de (Ralf Degner)
Type:     dev/obero

This is the V1.3 release of "Oberon System V4 for Amiga" (O4A) of ETH Zurich.

"Oberon System V4 for Amiga" requires at least an MC68020 and a minimum of
1.2MByte of free memory (2.5 MByte recommended). Floating point calculations
(types REAL and LONGREAL) additionally require a FPU. This version requires
WB2.0 or better. A screen mode requester will be available only with
asl.library V38 and higher. "Oberon System V4 for Amiga" works best with
16 colors (4 planes) and high resolutions (1024*768 or higher).
The StartUp-Script will test your system and will report problems.

NOTE: Oberon for Amiga doesn't work on XFH file systems.

"Oberon System V4 for Amiga" is distributed as an lha archive. A directory
will be created if you extract it. O4A is started using the Oberon icon.

Additional archives:
 Oberon-NonFPU.lha - to use O4A without FPU
 Oberon-Src.lha    - the full source of O4A
 Oberon-Fonts.lha  - additional screen and printer fonts
 Dialogs.lha       - advanced GUI and very nice programming example
 Expressions.lha   - mathematical expressions within text documents
 Coco.lha          - Compiler generator

NOTE: Don't store your private files into one of the subdirectories, but
      rather use the top directory, or a separate one, which you can add
      to the assign at the end of the Oberon StartUp-Script.

When started for the first time, O4A will ask for the preferred
screen mode and resolution (only with asl.library >=V38). This information
will be stored in the environment variable Oberon4Amiga. The command
System.ChangeMode can be used to change the value at a later time.
After this you can choose to use O4A at a private screen or in a window at
a public screen. A private screen is the normal way.

Now you should read the file Release.Notes.Text, to find out what has changed
since the last release, Oberon4Amiga.Guide.Text and Welcome.Text if you use
the system for the first time. If you do not know how to open an Oberon text
press the Help key to read the Welcome.Text.
Please note the file ReferenceCard.ps. It is a nice piece of docu.

If "Oberon System V4 for Amiga" gets out of control (e.g. because of a looping
command), use the KillOberon icon to terminate it. The Amiga OS has problems
if a process is interrupted, while it is waiting for a message reply. To avoid
problems, Ctrl-C refuses to work, when it detects a possible critical
situation.

System.Quit terminates the Oberon process. It is the normal way to leave
"Oberon System V4 for Amiga".

To get more information about "Amiga and Oberon" read the WWW page
http://sun1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/~nhbidegn/oa-e.html .

Please mail any bugs encountered to degner@pallas.amp.uni-hannover.de, to
which you can also direct questions.


			claudio / stefan / ralf   31-May-1996