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Boot Configuration v1.03 by Uwe Seimet
This program arrived with no docs and in German. I have
translated everything into English but cannot guarantee its
accuracy as I am not a German speaker. It is meant to run on a
double line or interlace mode but will operate in any 80 column
mode although the dialog boxes will appear to overlay each other.
The Falcon (and possibly the TT) has an area of battery backed
RAM used for storing such things as the country and keyboard
tables, hertz rate and so on. This program modifies the battery
backed RAM so it should be used with caution. It allows you to
set the country for all GEM/TOS menus and messages to UK, USA,
GERMAN, FRENCH, SPANISH or ITALIAN and the keyboard layout to any
one of the above as well as SWISS GERMAN and SWISS FRENCH.
Colours lets you pick from 2, 4, 16, 256 or 65536 colours and
match them with the column width (40 or 80) of your choice.
Overscan is only possible on a TV or ordinary colour monitor.
Don't try it on VGA! Overscan removes the white borders in any
resolution and increases your resolution by a factor of 1.2 in
both directions. This is particularly useful for editing
documents which are 80 characters wide, using a window based word
processor like First Word/Plus.
PAL or NTSC will set the display in colour to 50Hz (PAL) or 60Hz
(USA). Double line on is the native mode for VGA monitors,
allowing 640x480 or 320x480. Ordinary monitors can achieve a
maximum depth of 400 lines (close to VGA standard) by using
interlace. This gives a very flickery display which is hard on
the eyes. However, it does allow you to run software which would
previously only run on high res on an ST. You can reduce the
flicker by turning down the brightness and contrast on your
TV/monitor.
By selecting compatibility mode you will boot up in ST low or ST
high res, depending on what type of monitor you have. The
compatibility modes have been selected to allow you to run some
incompatible programs, they are not merely presets, matching up
the correct colours and columns as those used in the appropriate
ST resolution.
Date and Time are more or less self-explanatory. These will
affect how the computer expects to receive input for the battery
backed clock via the control panel or other software. It also
affects how the time and date will be displayed, unless
individual programs over-ride it.
Preferences is a bit beyond me. I assume it means that you can
attach a Unix hard drive to your SCSI II port and read the drive
without problems. I know that if Unix is selected, you can't read
an Atari formatted drive! Don't worry, it can be set back again
to TOS format by re-running the program.
Well, this readme has gone on too long! Remember Floppyshop were
the first PD/Shareware distributor in the UK to release Falcon
software and we will continue to support this great machine.
Steve Delaney, Floppyshop
April 1993