GADGETS- The parts around a window on the Workbench that allow you to close it, resize, or scroll across.

GAME CARD- Hard as it may be to believe; the PC requires a card just to plug in a joystick.

GARY- One of the Amiga's custom chips which handles memory management. Stands for Gate ARaY.

GB- The Great Britain keymap designed to alter the symbols on the keyboard to the UK standard.

GENERIC- A basic printer driver designed to work with all Amiga printers. It is fairly basic and allows text printing, not graphics.

GENLOCK- GENerating LOCK. A video device that allows you to place computer graphics over a video image.

GHOSTING- An option that cannot be selected from menus but is still visible is known as "ghosted".

GIF- Graphic Interchangeable Format. An image format by CompuServe widely used on the internet. Due to a patent on the LZW compression format used in this standard, any use of the GIF system will require registration to UniSys.

GIGABYTE- A measurement of the storage space that a hard drive or removable media has. A gigabyte is 1,073,741 kilobytes.

GIGO- Garbage In Garbage Out.

GRAPHICS DUMP- An AmigaDOS command that prints the screen currently on top.

GRAPHICS MEMORY- Also known as Chip Memory.

GUI- Graphical User Interface. A visually-orientated system that allows you to do things on your computer visually through the mouse. It is based upon the WIMP system.

GURU MEDITATION ERROR- The standard Amiga error message, displayed in a red or yellow flashing box. This informs the user that a program has upset the system and needs to be rebooted. It also displays exactly what has gone wrong in the form of a series of numbers.

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