AmigaGuide
More info
- Owner
- Commodore
- Released
- 1992
- Type
- Hypertext format
The Amiga's hypertext format for help files — clickable links between text nodes years before the web reached ordinary people.
Commodore introduced it with AmigaOS 2.1 around 1992. A .guide file is plain text with commands in @{...} that split the document into nodes and turn words into links; the reader (AmigaGuide or MultiView) showed them as clickable hypertext with a back button and a table of contents.
The format became standard for program documentation, disk magazines and FAQs on the Amiga. It was no web browser — no images, no network access — but the feel of clicking through linked pages was the same, and for many Amiga owners the very first taste of it.