Reboot-Start 2000 By Aldo Bianchi VERSION 4.1 FINAL VERSION !!!!!!!! *** INTRODUCTION: This is a shell-script that run any game rebooting your computer.. Examples...games that needs 2Mb of free chip-memory like Capital punishment Wendetta etc games that dont like run from workbench ... games that dont like run with best chipset option like monkey island 1 & 2 games that dont like 040/060 caches activated games that dont like your CyberGraphX or P96 driver *** REQUERIMENTS 1:WORKBENCH 3.0+ (correctly installed) (this scripts works fine in all configs and cpus 020,030,040,060) (also PowerPC-cards) (UAE not tested) 2:1Mb fast memory ***LAST CHANGES IN VERSION 4.1 -added an alternate-startup-sequence for those stranges games -added more examples *** NEW V4 FEATURES -you can change the path of the dir of your game and REBOOT-START run without problems ! -Simplify the scripts..only put the name of the executable of the game..!! -You can force the game tu run in PAL or NTSC...see REBOOT-START script -You can degrade your system if needed...see REBOOT-START script. -full Amiga-DOS friendly. -if you have a CD-Writer you can copy any game to a cd and run it directly -no requesters or bad assigns like other programs -Reboot-Start not remove your rom3.1 mapped in fast memory or residents like Idefix -FREEWARE ! *** INSTALLATION (by hand) 1 copy clicknot,getpath,reset,bootcontrol,remrad => to your c directory...IMPORTANT..!!! 2 copy rad1 and rad1.info => to your SYS/Storage/DOSDriver/s....REAL IMPORTANT..!! 3 copy ramdrive.devce to your devs directory 4 copy REBOOT-START and REBOOT-START.info => to the dir of your game.. 5 copy supplied STARTUP-SEQUENCE => to the dir of your game .. 6 edit STARTUP-SEQUENCE and put the name of the executable of your game in the correct place...!! 7 * you can edit REBOOT-START script too to change Bootcontrol's options (*) Optional :with Boot-Control you can force any game to run in PAL or NTSC or force to run with OLD and ECS chipset...see Reboot-Start-script DEFAULT:PAL & BEST chipset *** USAGE After you procced with INSTALLATION steps.. Go to the dir of your game and doubleclick REBOOTSTART...Thats all...!!!! *** PROBLEMS If you have a game that dont work or after reboot you see a stupid requester that say "INSERT RAM0 IN ANY DRIVE" ..you must edit the supplied alternate-startp-sequence "ALTERNATE-STARTUP-SEQUENCE"..put the game-executable in the correct place and rename it as "STARTUP-SEQUENCE" Then copy to the dir of your game.. Thats all PLEASE NOTE that the Alternate-startup-sequence is a bit diferent from the common: 1:your Amiga will reset twice 2:all residents will be lost even your mapped rom3.1 ***EXPERT-USAGE if you have a cd-writer (I have one) you can copy any game to a CD and run from WB there's a supplied file named "mountcdrom" => edit it and copy to devs.. this file will mount your CDROM after your miggy reboot My "mountcdrom" file only says: Mount CD1: if you have problems or questions...mail-me ***BUGS no bugs ! *** GAMES-TESTED OK! Capital punishment ok Wendetta 2175 ok Street fighter2 AGA ok Marvin's adventure AGA ok Monkey island 1 & 2 ok Roadkill AGA ok Cruise for a corpse ok T-ZER0 ok Olofight AGA ok Fighting Spirit AGA ok Flink CD32 ok and others games and demos I cant remenber now.. *** THANKS -Oliver Kastl for your wonderful program Bootcontrol -All ppl who reported bugs and games that dont work *** PRICE send comments or a pic of your country to my mail *** CONTACTS ALdo Bianchi - Montevideo-Uruguay MAIL: aldo7373@internet.com.uy PHONE: 2093050 R.O.U FAX: 2008615 R.O.U CELULAR-PHONE: I hate this toys IRC: FRANZ Sorry for my bad english! *****Amiga Forever!*****