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- FastAMax V1.02
- by David Walthour
- September 17, 1992
-
- No guarantee of any kind is made that this program is 100% reliable.
- Use it at your own risk.
-
- This program is freely redistributable.
-
-
- Instructions
- ============
- The purpose of FastAMax is to dump the Mac plus ROMs used with the cartridge
- version of A-MAX 2.5 to a file and to patch the software such that the ROMs
- are read from this file. This greatly enhances the speed of the ROM loading
- portion of the A-Max boot process. It has been tested with A-Max versions
- 2.50 and 2.51. No guarantee is made that this program will work for earlier
- versions of A-Max.
-
- FastAMax must be run from the CLI in the directory which contains the A-Max
- software, and the A-Max cartridge must be connected in the manner described
- by the A-Max User's Guide. The A-Max program must be named "A-Max Startup".
- FastAMax is then run by typing:
-
- FastAMax
-
- The program will display a message that it is reading the ROMs. This will
- take about 15-20 seconds, and, when this is done, the program will write 2
- files to the directory and return to the CLI prompt. The first file is named
- MacROMs and is a file image of the Macintosh+ ROMs. The second file is
- named 'A-Max Startup.patch' and is the patched version of the program that
- will read the ROMs from the MacROMs file. The patched program may be renamed,
- but the MacROMs file must not be renamed.
-
- NOTE: in order for the patched version of A-Max to work, the MacROMs file
- must always be in the same directory as the 'A-Max Startup.patch' file and
- the cartridge must be connected in the same position among the daisy chained
- external drives as it was when FastAMax was originally executed. The patched
- program cannot be run without the cartridge.
-
- The 'A-Max Startup.patch' file operates in exactly the same manner as the
- unpatched software until the ROMs load, at which point you will be delighted
- by the lightning speed at which they are read by the software.
-
- Any comments, suggestions or bug fixes would be appreciated.
-
- David Walthour
-
- address: Thayer School of Engineering
- Dartmouth College
- Hanover, NH 03755
-
- email: walthour@coos.dartmouth.edu
-
- voice: (603) 646-3332
-
-
- History
- =======
-
- Version 1.00
- Original release
-
- Version 1.01
- Whoops! Original code was only compiled to run on '030 with FPU. This release
- has source code with it.
-
- Version 1.02
- My apologies to everyone who has tried to run versions 1.00 and 1.01. Both of
- these releases have been plauged by problems with my compiler not producing
- the correct code. The source code hasn't changed since V1.00, but the binaries
- with each of these releases didn't work correctly. The executable with this
- version IS working correctly and should work correctly with ALL machines.