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│ BootSectorZ v1.1 │ (c) 1955 Duret-Lutz Alexandre (aka Pollux / OLYMPUS)
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Before all, note that I am not a good english writer. So you'll see all sort
of mistake (and especialy 's' missings and grammar faults).
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Disclaimer:
I (Duret-Lutz Alexandre) do not warrant that this program will run correctly
on your system. I disclaim all warranties, expressed or implied, including
but not limited to implied warranties of fitness for any particular purpose
and of merchantability. In no event will I be liable to you for any damages
of any sort du to the use or inability to use this program, or for any claim
by any other party.
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BSZ's job:
BSZ is a boot sector installer, nothing more. All boot sector are ready for
use and can be installed by a single keystroke.
Thanks to the virtual boot sector of 2M disks, BSZ is compatible whith it.
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What a Boot Sector ? This is the first sector of the first track of the first
side of a drive. It is 512 bytes large. It contains some bios and dos data
(like track number, serial number, etc...) and the 448 bytes left can be
use by some code. What BSZ do is puting its own code in here. The boot
sector's code is run once when you reboot your system with a disk in the drive.
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How to do ?
Simply type "BSZ" on the prompt. BSZ will start.
Then, select one of the offered boot sectors with then arrow keys.
Put a disk in your drive (you can chose your drive with 'A' -for A:- and 'B'
-for B:-) this disk can be full or empty but he must have a sector size of
512bytes (this is common).
Now press "Return".
Have a look to "STATUS:", BSZ can write here three words:
'OK ' means that the last operation went whithout problem
'WRI' means that BSZ is write on the disk (do not remove it)
'ERR' means that BSZ encounter a problem during the last operation
(you should retry)
Press "Escape" for leave BSZ.
When you're chosing a bootsector, BSZ display all sort of informations of
the boot selected. They are:
CPU: indicates the processor above the one the boot won't work (=will hang
up the system)
VIDEO: indicates the video mode used (TXT or VGA) by the boot.
SYSTEM: indicates if the disk can be a system disk or not. (for now, all BSZ's
boot sectors do not support system boot).
LINK HD:signify that the boot whill continue in running the hard drive boot
sector (so the system starts without changing the disk). For now, all
BSZ's boot sectors go on with HD.
CRYPTED:indicate that boot sector contain decrypting routines. Some heuristics
based anti-virus shouldn't appreciate.
CRC: indicate that the boot sector perform it's own CRC. (For now, none of
the BSZ's boot sectors do that).
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There are the boot sectors offered:
■ First One : The first boot sector I wrote. Simply try it!
■ Debug Boot : It shows all the register at boot startup. This can help you
making a boot sector for your own system (not for the others
because these value won't be the same).
■ QuickBoot : Do nothing.
■ GUS INIT : Shut up the GUS
■ SB INIT : Shut up the SB
■ Smiley Boot: Display a very small picture (a smile) on the screen.
■ Time Boot : Give you the date and the time. (On a CPU less than 286,
the time and date aren't given.
■ Own Message: Use BSZ.INI to modify the message writen.
■ Fire! : This is what I call a boot sector intro.
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BSZ is FREEWARE, this means that you can copy it freely (if you don't make
any modification in it) arround yourself (and farther if you want !).
Please, share it with your friends, but DO NOT SELL IT ! And do not make
any commercial use of BSZ.
Original package contains those files
FILE_ID.DIZ Short Description
BSZ.DOC This file
BSZ_FR.DOC The same in french
BSZ.EXE BSZ itself
BSZ.DAT Boot Sectors records
BSZ.INI Config file.
WHATSNEW.REV Changes from v0.9
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For contacting me (e.g. if you have written a boot sector and you want I add
it in BSZ), write (my mail) to :
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Duret-Lutz Alexandre
9 Av du 29 Août 1944
51430 Tinqueux
France
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