Perhaps the best way to create a 1581 boot disk for GEOS 64 is to use the utility known as GeoMakeBoot which was written by Jim Collette and is distributed by Creative Micro Designs. The only drawback occurs if your 64 is not equipped with JiffyDos. GeoMakeBoot creates a rather large file called GEOBOOT that must be booted into the computer from the 1581, and the computer's own loading routines are used for this purpose.
When you load GEOS from your standard 1541 boot disks, a fastloader is booted into the computer first. Along with this, some additional code is transferred into the disk drive to aid in the fast booting of the GEOS kernal. The result is that you can boot GEOS faster from your 1541 than you can from your 1581! Again, as long as you have JiffyDos, this is not the case.
But, if you do not have JiffyDos, you can now have the ability to get up and running much quicker. Included with this package are this documentation file, and two additional files, GEOS and TURBOBOOT.
Installation is very simple. Just boot up as you normally do and then delete the file on your boot disk called GEOS. Copy the new GEOS file onto your boot disk. Then, copy the TURBOBOOT file to your boot disk. That's all there is to it.
The file called GEOS has the job of loading in TURBOBOOT. It could have been done with just one file, but I felt it necessary to retain the autorun feature found in the GEOS file and chose to implement a second file with the fastloader. The file called TURBOBOOT has but one purpose in life, that is to get the GEOS kernal contained within the GEOBOOT file loaded into the machine as quickly as possible.
This combination will shave approximately 35 seconds off your bootup time. It is designed for GEOS 64 V2.0 and the 1581 drives. It will also work with the CMD FD Series drives using 1581 partitions, but will not work on the HD Series.
It is also compatible with the TurboMaster accelerator cartridge.
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