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- DocsBoot+ version 0.42 acknowledgements
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- Copyright (C)1994-1998 Zac Schroff, all rights reserved
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- Development (I just want some sleep, but I'd settle for time!)
- Zac Schroff : `NOW what? MORE fixes and features?'
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- Documentation (We have to be dying of eye-strain by now...)
- Zac Schroff : `What? The user interface is not obvious?!?!?'
- Ron Bonner : `This is very confusing.' <highlighting lots of text>
- John Parsons : `...you couldn't resist my...lyrical prose style!'
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- Alpha torture victims (Get...the comfy chair!)
- Zac Schroff : `What kind of assumptions do these things make?!?!?'
- Scott Kelley : `I do NOT want to be quoted as ``works fine''.'
- Toney Duck : `I AM testing it! Where is the new version again?'
- Denny McGough : `Put in these features.' <handing over a BIG list>
- Ron Bonner : `If I can't screw it up, nobody can.'
- Toni Nikkanen : `...if it blows up...'
- David Reaves : `If I can't screw it up, nobody can.'
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- Ron and David would likely be surprised how many people say that.
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- Thanks to (or at least, greetings to)
- Scott kelley : ideas for self-checking
- lots of other inspiration
- lots of hardware & hardware information
- lots of (often useful) bug reports
- actually understanding some of this stuff
- Toni Nikkanen : suggestion for colour
- suggestion for timer reset after keypress
- suggestion for timer disable after keypress
- suggestion for unix image to disc method
- a really cool MODfile player : Morgul
- Arne Glenditsch : suggestion for booting floppy A & B
- suggestion for DriveSwap
- suggestion for IDE StandBy extension
- Denny McGough : suggestion for menu in centre of screen
- suggestion for light bar menu
- reporting the Linux information
- getting me a copy of RedHat Linux to play with
- John Parsons : suggestion for installer menu titles
- proofreading and interpreting the docfiles
- Marc-Andre Schmidt : suggestion for multiple primary part. support
- reporting the QEMM DOS-UP problem
- Jeremy Mathers : suggestion for menu hide option
- Toney Duck : suggestion for virus protection
- occasional bug reports
- James Miskinis : suggestion for 1200KB A drive system changes
- Martin Wisse : suggestion for multiple visible primaries option
- Victor Bien : reporting the UnixWare problems
- testing DocsBoot+ with UnixWare and others
- trying to sell DocsBoot+ to all of Australia
- Colby Gibson : getting me a copy of SlackWare Linux to play with
- Joseph Stockwell : reporting the DOS/4GW problem
- Hector Fuerte : reporting the Warp floppy access problem
- Jim Carpenter : reporting the NeXT Step information
- reporting the SCO Unix information
- Steve Richards : reporting the SCO Xenix information
- Michael Gerhardt : reporting the Banyan VINES information
- Jasse Jansson : reporting the OpenBSD information
- John Corrigan : reporting the Solaris x86 information
- Robert Strom : reporting the Norton AntiVirus interaction
- Ron Bonner : reminding me not everybody speaks computerese
- trying to proofread & interpret the docfiles
- Steve Gibson : lots of useful programming information & books
- SpinRite, the best disc diagnostic utility
- David Brassfield : encouragement, support, internet access
- Chris Harrell : a very useful book on interrupts & memory
- Daniel Smith : a well implemented PostScript Tengwar font
- Charles Eliott : helping me get some useful information
- Maury Musgrove : letting me test on a machine in his store
- Felix Todd : letting me test on a machine in his store
- IBM : the basic reason all this started : OS/2
- et al : lots of useful suggestions and bug reports
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- Antithanks to (these should suffice as hints...)
- AcerOpen : Why do you keep decreasing the number of slots???
- Adaptec : Why not make a full-featured 3-channel ultra-wide host?
- AMD : Where's that 486DX4-160? That K6-300?
- AMI : 2880KB floppy support that can't see 2880KB discs?
- AOC : This 15" monitor looks great but sounds awful!
- ATI : Three years for OS/2 drivers, and no dual support???
- Award : My 586 can't format floppies? What's wrong here?
- Borland : Assembler bugs can be fun... for a massochist!
- BSD : Installer page faults make installation difficult.
- Creative : Why does a PAS16 have better sound than an SB16?
- Diamond : Where's YOUR modem firmware upgrade for better speed?
- Digital : Power management should disable when plugged in.
- Epson : Invulnerable, slow, featureless printers...
- Gravis : You quit making good sound cards for mediocre JOYSTICKS?
- Hercules : What about a PCI InColor or Graphics Plus?
- HP : Why did a faceplate for your DAT cost $30???
- IBM : You guys can't be bothered to support legacy harware?
- Intel : CPU socket standard? Which one is THE standard???
- iOmega : Nice drives, but costly proprietary media?
- MediaVision: Where did you go, anyhow???
- Microsoft : Let's shaft the world again, shall we?
- Micropolis : Good drives with cheap power connectors!
- Motorola : Where's the modem speed enhancement firmware upgrade?
- NEC : Let's see if we can disable SCSI termination next.
- Novell : Just what we all need -- /another/ hard to set up unix!
- Panasonic : I like PDs, but where can I get those `cheap' media?
- Phillips : Okay, so how do I erase or recycle these trashed CDRs?
- Phoenix : Just fix the stupid bootstrap code, okay?
- Plextor : The 12/20Plex PCAV CD? Where's a true CAV unit?
- Psion : Windows95 only support for the Series5? Stupid!
- Quantum : What about less expensive SCSI drives next?
- SCO : Those are developer DISCOUNTS? Ugh. Ick. Argh.
- Seagate : Stop buying everybody else who makes mass storage!
- SuperMicro : Move the CPU about an inch to the right on the AT boards.
- SyQuest : Another interesting drive with costly proprietary media!
- Tandberg : SCSI was meant to be a standard...
- Toshiba : Why can't I get a techbook for my /fourth/ Toshiba?
- Tyan : Great boards. Now if we just had technical support...
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