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- QuickStart v0.99
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- Copyright (C) 1993 G. Hazianastasíou
- All Rights Reserved.
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- Copies the KickStart ROM in an Amiga to disk.
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- Written in 100% Assembly language
- Highest speed, smallest code!
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- You may copy and spread this program as you like, but you must
- follow a few restrictions. You are NOT allowed to sell it, or
- in any other way make money on it (PD libraries are allowed to
- include it on their disks, providing that they don't take any
- money for it, but ONLY for the cost of the disks). This doc
- file must always be included, and the files must be in their
- original shape (not altered/edited in any way). The author of
- QuickStart will NOT be held responsible for any damages on your
- equipment, on your disks, or any injuries caused by the above
- mentioned program.
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- If you find this program useful, feel free to send donations (computer
- equipment, money, cars, disks, pizza etc.) to the adress at the end of
- this doc file. If you don't like the program, send complaints to >NIL:
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- This program copies the ROM onto a data file on the disk. This means
- that you finally can make a backup of your KickStart! B-)
- Well, you must note that the stuff in the ROM-chips are copyrighted
- by Commodore-Amiga Inc, and if you spread it you do it on your own
- risk. I will NOT be held responsible for any kind of illegal piracy.
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- When the program starts (it will only start from Shell/CLI), it will
- inform you of the KickStart version. Since the program uses the Exec
- structure to determine which version you have, you must start it
- with your ROM-Kick and not a disk based KickStart. Failing to do so
- might (and propably will) result in a faulty KickStart-file being
- saved. I think it is of no need to mention that this program is
- useless on A1000 and other machines without any ROM... However, if
- you have one of the supported ROM-versions (1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 3.0)
- you will be informed of the size, and asked if you wish to save it
- or not. (Yes, I KNOW that the program is busy-waiting, but since I'm
- a lazy guy, I won't fix it in a while...) If you choose SAVE, the
- file will be saved in your current dir. For example, if you have the
- program in DF0: and you wish to save the KickStart in DF1:, you
- should type:
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- 1> cd DF1:
- 1> DF0:QuickStart
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- The KickStart should now be saved on DF1:. If QuickStart can't
- recognize your KickStart version (see list below for full list),
- it will presume it is a new version, and try to save it if you
- wish. I won't guarantee that it works, though.
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- Following versions are recognized by QuickStart:
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- KickStart v1.1 (sucks!), early A1000...
- KickStart v1.2 (ROM)
- KickStart v1.3 (ROM)
- KickStart v1.4 Beta (disk only)
- KickStart v2.0 Beta (disk only)
- KickStart v2.0 (ROM)
- KickStart v2.1 (disk only)
- KickStart v3.0 (ROM)
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- Known bugs:
- When QuickStart is saving a file which doesn't fit on the disk,
- you'll get a 'Volume blabla is full' requester, and when you
- cancel it, QuickStart won't show you any error message. This because
- I have no idea how to make dos.library give me the information
- that the disk is full (I had no access to any litterature at all
- when I wrote it). However, if that happens the file will be saved,
- but not all of it. Make sure you have a disk with enough free space,
- and then try again...
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- As I mentioned before, I didn't have any access to any litterature
- or include files when I wrote it... So, there might be some other
- bugs in it too. In future versions, I will (hopefully) add a
- file-requester and intution menus. I will also (hopefully) add a
- better routine to detect the KickStart version. Until then however,
- this version of the program does what it is supposed to do, and I
- hope you'll find it useful.
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- Here is my adress (bug reports, money and hard disks welcome!):
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- G. Hazianastasíou
- Vallv.1B
- 791 47 Falun
- Sweden
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- FidoNet: 2:205/324.7
- E-mail: georg.hazianastasiou@mailbox.swipnet.se
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