note: tHIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO RUN WITH geos 128 WITH TWO DISK DRIVES PLUS A rAM eXPANSION uNIT. iT REQUIRES THAT THE TWO DISK DRIVES BE HARDWARE SET AS DIFFERENT dEVICE nUMBERS, SUCH AS dEVICES 8 AND 9, OR 8 AND 10. iF ADDITIONAL DRIVES (NOT ACCESSED BY geos) ARE SET AS dEVICE 11 OR dEVICE 12, THESE DRIVES MUST BE TURNED OFF FOR THIS PROGRAM TO WORK PROPERLY.
how to use rescue 128
bERKELY TELLS US THAT IF WE CRASH IN geos, WE CAN rE-bOOT AND SAVE THE FILES IN THE reu BY PRESSING THE reset BUTTON. iF YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE DRIVE, AND THESE ARE OF DIFFERENT TYPES, YOU HAVE ABOUT A ONE IN NINE CHANCE OF GETTING A PROPER rE-bOOT. iF YOU HAVE NOT DONE ANY DRIVE SWAPPING (c TO a, ETC), geos WILL rE-bOOT ok, OTHERWISE, DEPENDING UPON THE WAY THE DRIVES ARE SET UP, YOU WILL EITHER GET A rE-bOOT AND LOSE dRIVE c, OR NOT BE ABLE TO rE-bOOT AT ALL, AS THE MACHINE WILL LOCK UP AND LEAVE YOUR POOR DRIVES SPINNING.
rESCUE 128 IS A basic PROGRAM THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO RECOVER geos WHEN IT WILL NOT OTHERWISE PROPERLY REBOOT. iT WILL
WORK IN THREE WAYS, DEPENDING ON HOW THE rE-bOOT FAILED.
iF YOU PRESS THE reset BUTTON AND geos rE-bOOTS BUT LOSES DRIVE c, YOU CAN RECOVER dRIVE c BY DOUBLE-CLICKING THE rESCUE 128 ICON. yOUR MACHINE WILL BRIEFLY LEAVE geos, RECOVER THE DRIVE, THEN RE-ENTER geos.
iF YOU PRESS THE reset BUTTON AND THE MACHINE LOCKS UP, YOU CAN RECOVER geos BY PRESSING THE reset BUTTON AGAIN, THIS TIME, HOLDING DOWN THE c= (cOMMODORE) KEY WHEN YOU reset. tHE MACHINE WILL ENTER THE
@c-64 MODE
. nOW LOAD AND RUN rESCUE 128 IN c-64 MODE. yOU QUICKLY GET A DISPLAY TELLING YOU TO pRESS THE reset BUTTON AGAIN, AND TO LOAD AND RUN rESCUE 128 IN THE 128 MODE. wHEN YOU PRESS THE reset BUTTON THIS TIME, YOU SHOULD not HOLD DOWN THE c= KEY.
tHE MACHINE WILL reset TO THE 128 MODE BUT WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO ENTER geos AS IT NORMALLY WOULD. tHIS WILL ALLOW YOU TO LOAD AND RUN rescue 128. wHEN YOU DO SO, THE PROGRAM WILL FIRST CONFIGURE THE DRIVES THE WAY THEY WERE WHEN YOU CRASHED, THEN ENTER THE dESKTOP.
iF geos CRASHES AGAIN, PRESSING THE reset BUTTON WILL SEND THE MACHINE INTO THE c-128 MODE WITHOUT ATTEMPTING TO ENTER geos. tHIS MEANS YOU CAN SKIP THE PROCEDURE OF ENTERING THE c-64 MODE, AND INSTEAD IMMEDIATELY LOAD AND RUN rESCUE 128.
yOU SHOULD KEEP A COPY OF rESCUE 128 ON EACH TYPE OF DISK YOU USE SO THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS BE ABLE TO ACCESS IF FROM THE DESKTOP WHEN YOU'VE LOSE dRIVE c.
i WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY COMMENTS YOU MIGHT HAVE ON THIS PROGRAM. i WOULD ALSO APPRECIATE ANY SMALL TOKEN OF ESTEEM THAT YOU ARE WILLING TO SEND WHICH MIGHT HELP PAY FOR SOME OF THE COSTS INCURRED IN MAKING THIS PROGRAM AVAILABLE. iF YOU MAKE THIS PROGRAM AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION OF ANY SORT, PLEASE INCLUDE THIS DOCUMENT WITH YOUR DISK OR TRANSMISSION.
i WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION TO jIM cOLLETTE FOR PLANTING THE SEED FROM WHICH rESCUE 128 GREW, TO wILLIAM cOLEMAN FOR HIS INVALUABLE HELP, AND TO sUSAN lAMB FOR HER NEVER ENDING SUPPORT.
nOTES FROM sUSAN lAMB: i CRASHED WHEN BOTH THE 1541 (dRIVE a) AND THE 1581 (dRIVE c) WERE SET TO DEVICE 8 AND THE 1581 WAS ACTIVATED IN dRIVE a POSITION . . . dESPERATION tIME . . . i TURNED OFF THE 1581 AND RESET IT TO DEVICE 10, TURNED IT BACK ON, RAN rESCUE 128 AND SAVED MY ramDISK!
@warning:
nEVER PRESS THE RESET BUTTON WITH THE BOOT DISK IN ANY DRIVE. iF YOU FORGET AND IT STARTS TO BOOT, QUICKLY PRESS THE RESET AGAIN WHILE PRESSING THE c= KEY TO GO TO c-64 MODE AND START OVER. iF YOU DON'T STOP THE BOOTING PROCESS BEFORE THE dESKtOP APPEARS, YOU'LL LOSE YOUR ramDISK.