4000 Manuals

ok, not 4000, only 17.






do i have to read them all?

i mean, i guess i have to right?

or can i safely skip any of these?

helloitsmeagain wrote:ok, not 4000, only 17.






do i have to read them all?

i mean, i guess i have to right?

or can i safely skip any of these?

If you do read them you will be very intelligent after.

Well then, I'll start tonight.

You don't have to read the Service Manual unless you're a service technician fixing the machine!

The User Manual is very "fact lite" but it will get you started, just about.

The Reference Manual is where all the detail is, but it is rather tediously translated to English from Japanese... and more importantly, it was NEVER updated to include all the little (and not so little) changes to the OS in all those "Update Addendum" PDFs.

So yes, you really do need to read all the Addendums!

At one point I made an annotated PDF of the 4000 Reference Manual, with little "post it" note comments on it for all the changes... it should still be in the Files section of the MPC4000 Yahoogroup.

Another great document is the Ak.Sys User Guide. Unlike all the rest, it was written by Steve 'Hollow Sun' Howell (who sadly died last week )
It is not an exhaustive reference to everything the MPC4000 can do, but it explains many concepts very well in a much more readable way than the Reference manual.

@Feline3

Maybe we should get Tutor to put your annotated version in the Manuals and Resources section. Yahoo Groups is an abomination!

I have no objection!

If you can give me a dropbox link. I'll PM him about it!

feline1 wrote:You don't have to read the Service Manual unless you're a service technician fixing the machine!

The User Manual is very "fact lite" but it will get you started, just about.

The Reference Manual is where all the detail is, but it is rather tediously translated to English from Japanese... and more importantly, it was NEVER updated to include all the little (and not so little) changes to the OS in all those "Update Addendum" PDFs.

So yes, you really do need to read all the Addendums!

At one point I made an annotated PDF of the 4000 Reference Manual, with little "post it" note comments on it for all the changes... it should still be in the Files section of the MPC4000 Yahoogroup.

Another great document is the Ak.Sys User Guide. Unlike all the rest, it was written by Steve 'Hollow Sun' Howell (who sadly died last week )
It is not an exhaustive reference to everything the MPC4000 can do, but it explains many concepts very well in a much more readable way than the Reference manual.

I just checked, file is not on the yahoo group

feline1 wrote:Unlike all the rest, it was written by Steve 'Hollow Sun' Howell (who sadly died last week )

That I didn't know.

Explains why my emails went unanswered.

RIP.

feline1 wrote:Unlike all the rest, it was written by Steve 'Hollow Sun' Howell (who sadly died last week )

Damn that is sad... Severe Liver Damage is a painful way to go.

May God Bless the Dead.

rogue scrunt wrote:
I just checked, file is not on the yahoo group

You sure? Some evil fiend must have deleted it.

It's still on my hard drive. mwoah hah hah

feline1 wrote:At one point I made an annotated PDF of the 4000 Reference Manual, with little "post it" note comments on it for all the changes... it should still be in the Files section of the MPC4000 Yahoogroup.

that would be a great time saver!

if the english manual is a terrible translation, perhaps we could pay for another translation? how much would that cost? i assume that the original japanese is concise and to the point?

"Terrible" - well, it's what you tend to get from a 3rd party translation house - totally bland, totally lacking in idiom or any spark of life, to the point where, when you read it, it slowly saps your human spirit and will to live.

Translation houses use this tedious neutral language because it's, in principle, easier for people to understand if English isn't their first language. But basically it just sucks.

Feline! Any luck on finding that notated version of the manual?