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MiniDisc was originally designed to clean up the left hand side of your iconbar by removing all of the disc icons, and replacing them with a single icon ’stack’. This it has achieved. However, I seem to have got a little carried away, and now MiniDisc offers a wealth of additional features for managing the day-to-day use of your RISC OS desktop.
This wiki is designed to provide comprehensive details on all features of MiniDisc.
At first glance it may seem that you’ll have to spend a month reading before being able to use MiniDisc - this is not the case. Granted, there are a vast number of configuration options available to you - this is necessary because virtually every RISC OS user I have ever come across seems to want MiniDisc to operate differently. I have attempted to build a set of ’sensible’ default configuration options that will allow most users to run MiniDisc ’out-of-the-box’ without problems.
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RISC OS version 3.10 or greater
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Window Manager version 3.98 or greater
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32bit System Components
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New ’!Boot’ sequence
MiniDisc requires a modern ’!Boot’ sequence. Most modern RISC OS machines will come with a hard-disc preinstalled with a suitable ’!Boot’ sequence. For older machines, the ’Universal’ boot sequence is required, this can be found on the Acorn User 200th edition CD-ROM, or downloaded from: http://acorn.riscos.com/riscos/releases/UniBoot/uniboot.zip
- Acorn URI / ANT URL support
MiniDisc uses the Acorn URI protocol for sending messages to internet programs (for example, to tell your web browser to display a web-page). Many internet programs support this protocol, but the ANT internet suite of programs use a different URL protocol. For MiniDisc to interact properly with these programs you will also need to download Iain Truskett’s URIConv program from: http://koschei.midnightrealm.org/code/riscos/
Copy the ’!MiniDisc’ application directory out of the archive to an appropriate location on your hard-disc.
MiniDisc will happily run from the ’Tasks’ section of your ’Boot’ sequence.
For subscribers to the RISC OS 4 ’Select’ scheme, MiniDisc is distributed with a compliant configuration tool ’plugin’. This will allow MiniDisc to be configured via Configure in addition to the normal methods.
To install the MiniDisc configuration tool, open the Select subdirectory within the MiniDisc distribution archive, run Configure, then drag the application !MDSetup to the main Configure window
If you have not installed MiniDisc to run as a part of your ’Boot’ sequence, then this is as simple as opening a filer window for the directory that you installed MiniDisc into, and then double-clicking on the !MiniDisc icon.
The first time you run MiniDisc, it will create a number of default configuration files. Later sections of this guide describe how to tailor the way MiniDisc works to your choosing.
Once run, an icon representing a ’stack’ of discs will appear on the far left of your icon bar.