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- From: para@Walden.mo.net (Beakman's Secret Identity)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Demos vs. HD
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 07:30:23 GMT
- Organization: Deranged Social Workers
- Message-ID: <4jinuf$sn3@Twain.MO.NET>
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- Just wondering if anyone knows of a way (preferably in software, though
- hardware would work), of disabling the hard drive from booting?
-
- I have quite a few demos that REFUSE to boot in PAL mode unless it sees
- the "Insert Workbench" disk animation/screen (3.0). Before I had the hard
- drive working (BTW thanks to many people here for that), I had no
- problems running the demos. Then with the hard drive, I can't get to that
- screen, and these refuse to switch completely. (Some examples are
- Spaceballs' 9 Fingers and Faculty's Lethal Dose...)
-
- As such, I can't run them anymore.
-
- And I REALLY don't want to start ripping the internal hard drive out each
- time I want to run the demos.
-
- I was considering trying to splice the power line to the HD into a
- switch, but I wanted to check if there was a better way before I started
- doing any heavy modifications. :p
-
- Thanks...
-
- ParaPsykotic (DSW)
- Tony Bossaller
- para@mo.net
- http://mo.net/para
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