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- List of REVISIONS to ELF-BOOT. (Current rev = 1.1):
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- 1/1/91 Autocolor mouse enable/disable now still 1.1
- works correctly after rez change from
- desktop. Formerly, Autocolor did survive
- the change, but the mouse control over
- it did not.
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- List of REVISIONS to ELF-BOOT utilities (booties!)
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- 6/7/91 ELFHELP.PRG Bug fix. Program was not 1.1
- preparing STARTGEM.INF files
- correctly, and in some cases,
- the program you picked would
- not run.
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- 7/11/91 ELFSTART.PRG **** NEW FILE! ****. This 1.0
- program replaces STARTGEM for
- machines with TOS 1.4 and
- higher, as described below.
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- The main doc file (or manual) states that the 'RUN PROGRAM' option
- cannot be used on TOS 1.4 (or higher) machines, because it requires the
- included "STARTGEM.PR" file, which doesn't work with the new TOS's.
- This problem has now been resolved by the "ELFSTART.PRG" file included in
- the ELFBOOT package, but the doc file (and manual) have not yet been updated.
- So, if your atari has TOS 1.4 or higher, simply install ELF-BOOT as
- described in the manual, but substitute the "ELFSTART.PRG" file whenever
- "STARTGEM.PR" is mentioned. Then, the RUN PROGRAM option will work normally.
- This will make more sense when you read the docs. Also, ignore any messages
- concerning STARTGEM displayed by the ELFBOOT program itself.
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- One point for TOS 1.4 (and higher) users that might cause confusion
- is ELFBOOT's automatic handling of the original STARTGEM.PR file. Again,
- this will make more sense after you've read the manual. The docs state that
- you don't have to worry about enabling/disabling STARTGEM because ELFBOOT
- will do so automatically as needed. When using ELFSTART in place of STARTGEM,
- this is not true. ELFSTART.PRG should _ALWAYS_ be enabled, and ELFBOOT will
- not automatically alter it. Functionally, this is completely transparent to
- the user, BUT, there are a few things to keep in mind:
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- 1) When copying ELFSTART.PRG to your AUTO folder, make sure you leave
- the ".PRG" extender intact! The manual assumes you are using
- "STARTGEM.PR", (note the shortened "PR" extender).
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- 2) The folder called "STARTGEM" must still be created as mentioned in
- the docs, since ELFBOOT still expects to find data files there.
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- 3) Finally, if you used ELFBOOT previously and have just upgraded
- to TOS 1.4, you will have to re-build your macros! Macros always
- update the entire AUTO folder, and disable any 'un-desired' entries.
- ELFSTART will get disabled since it was not included when the macros
- were built!
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