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Booter Control System V1.0
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Written by Danny for Alpha Flight.
This Program allows you to choose your program immediately when you have
inserted the Disk.
Please do the following steps to create your own Chooser:
- Load the SEKA and choose the Workspace (100 kB).
- Read the Source BOOTSOURCE.S with 'r' into Seka.
- Type 'b' to get at the end of the Source
- Edit the Programs and the Scroll-Text
prgtable:
dc.w 2 <= No of Programs you wish to present
(1 up to 7)
dc.b "Program Name 1",0,"Program Name 2",0 ;... etc.
! The Intro will adjust the Programs automatically
Change your Scroll Text ...
Notice: If you use the char '\' and a number from 0 up to 9
behind it,the Scrolling will change the Scroll-Speed
For Example: '\0' the Scrolly will stop
'\9' Highspeed Scrolly
0 for the end : dc.b "Hello ",0
ATTENTION:
Only following chars are allowed (no capital letters)
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789?- and SPACE
- Assemble the Source with 'a' and no Options
- Enter 'ri' and read your Charset Picture (-CHARSET) to
Label PICTURE.
- Write the program with 'wi' to disk, BEGIN> begin
END> absend
- Leave the Seka and load the BootMaker
- Type in your Save_Name.
- Insert a Disk on which the first and second Tracks are free,or
programs on it can be destroyed and type your Unit Number 'df0:'
- Load Seka again and read the File 'loader.s'
- Change the program Names at the End of the Listing into the
Names the Computer must load from disk.
- Assemble it
- Save it with wo to your Boot-Disk.
- Edit the startup-sequence of your Boot-Disk and call the loader.
- Ready.
If you start this disk it will happen following:
The Boot Intro saves your Choice to the Adress $100 in Memory
The Computer continues with the opening of the CLI-Window
then he load the startup-sequence and start up the loader.
The Loader will examine the Adress $100 and will load the right
program !
To change the Charset you must note following:
Each Big Char must have 16*32 pixels
Each little Char must have 8*8 pixels
For the Banner the Intro will take the Colors from the Picture
(C) 1970/1988 by the Alpha Flight
Ghostdance
Danny