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Amigaguide is a hypertext
Hypertext

Hypertext is text, displayed on a computer, with references to other text that the reader can immediately follow, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence....
 document file format
Document file format

A document file format is a Text file or Binary file computer file format for storing documents on a computer storage, especially for use by computers....
 similar to Texinfo
Texinfo

Texinfo is a typesetting syntax used for generating documentation in both on-line and printed form with a single source file. It is implemented by a free software computer program of the same name, created and made available by the GNU Project....
 designed for the Amiga
Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer....
, files are stored in ASCII
ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange , is a coding standard that can be used for interchanging information, if the information is expressed mainly by the written form of English words....
 so it is possible to read and edit a file without the need for special software.

Since Workbench 2.1
Workbench (AmigaOS)

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 (1992) an Amigaguide viewer has been included as standard on the Amiga, users with earlier versions of Workbench could view the files by downloading






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Amigaguide is a hypertext
Hypertext

Hypertext is text, displayed on a computer, with references to other text that the reader can immediately follow, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence....
 document file format
Document file format

A document file format is a Text file or Binary file computer file format for storing documents on a computer storage, especially for use by computers....
 similar to Texinfo
Texinfo

Texinfo is a typesetting syntax used for generating documentation in both on-line and printed form with a single source file. It is implemented by a free software computer program of the same name, created and made available by the GNU Project....
 designed for the Amiga
Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer....
, files are stored in ASCII
ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange , is a coding standard that can be used for interchanging information, if the information is expressed mainly by the written form of English words....
 so it is possible to read and edit a file without the need for special software.

Since Workbench 2.1
Workbench (AmigaOS)

Sorry, no overview for this topic
 (1992) an Amigaguide viewer has been included as standard on the Amiga, users with earlier versions of Workbench could view the files by downloading [ftp://uk.aminet.net/pub/aminet/text/hyper/aguide34.lha AmigaGuide 34].

Although the Amigaguide format is almost solely used for documenting Amiga programs, viewers are available for several platforms:

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  • DOS
    DOS

    DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is a shorthand term for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me....
     - [ftp://k332.feld.cvut.cz/pub/local/lemming/AGView/AGview.arj AGView]
  • Windows
    Microsoft Windows

    Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces ....
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  • Linux
    Linux

    Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL license...
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External links

  • Amigaguide tags and commands explained, organised by introduction version; open source Amigaguide to HTML converter, and security inspector
  • (in Amigaguide format)
  • (Aminet download for AmigaOS)