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- I found this little program a while ago on a German BBS; its purpose:
- initialize the TOS 2.06 (ONLY TOS 2.06!) Floppy BIOS routines to /not/
- double the seek rate as a default (which causes quite annoying grinding
- noises on a non-HD-floppy).
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- Seekup.c is the original source code (german comments).
- Seekupe.c is the same with english comments.
- Seekup.prg is the executable program.
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- Simply put seekup.prg into your AUTO folder; it will take up _no_ memory
- since it simply does an initializtion and then quits.
-
- It works quite well on _my_ ST, but I couldn't test it yet with non-German
- TOS ROMs; to test if it works with your ROMs, simply RUN it from the desktop
- (preferably with your harddisk driver not loaded and after write-protecing
- the floppy) and check if the floppy noise changed (by opening folders,
- requesting "disk information" on a disk with many folders and so on) - if
- it didn't change, seekup is probably incompatible to your ROM revision and
- should not be used (it could in fact be hazardous to your data to use it...)
-
- If any problem occurs,you might want to contact me:
-
- Martin_Koehling @ un.maus.de
-
- (As usual, I take no responsibility whatever for any damage possibly caused
- by this program; look, I'm not even the author... :-))
-