Amiga Support and Maintenance Software - Original Utilities

Original Utilities

Amiga embedded utility programs in the operating system. Many of these were original features, which were adopted into other systems:

• Installer was a tool for the installation of Amiga software. It featured a LISP interpreter to handle installations. It was not widely adopted because installation required copying a single executable to the floppy or the hard disk where the AmigaOS was installed. Ease of installation made the utility unnecessary. The Amiga Installer didn't support dependencies or track where the installed files were delivered; it simply copied them.

• AmigaGuide was a hypertext markup scheme and a browser for writing and reading web page-like documents. AmigaGuide files are text files in a simple markup language, which facilitates editing and localization in any ASCII text editor. Commodore developed the AmigaGuide format before the World Wide Web was widely known. Consumers who bought Amiga computers in a store did not receive documentation on how to write AmigaGuide documents.