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- From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: Displaying machine ownership
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.190225.24351@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 19:02:25 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.230737.4585@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1992Sep7.114632.17745@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Organization: Nottingham University
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- In article <1992Sep7.114632.17745@infodev.cam.ac.uk> nas20@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith) writes:
- >
- >Nice! Personally I am so sick of that screen (having seen it daily since last
- >November) that long ago I stuck a short hack module by Brian Brunswick in my
- >boot sequence which stops the screen appearing. It might even speed up the
- >desktop entry by a second or so ... I thought Brian had posted the module to
- >Newcastle - but I may be wrong.
-
- That module sounds useful, particularly for hard disc ARM2 users - the
- start up is the most painful bit with RISC OS 3 and ARM2.
-
- One way to speed up display of the RISC OS 3 Title Screen, if you have
- a hard disc, is as follows:
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- Once the title screen has been displayed, and you are in the desktop,
- type *SAVEFONTCACHE <filename>.
-
- Now, in your system !Boot file, include the line *LOADFONTCACHE <filename>
- BEFORE the desktop starts up. I don't think this is possible if you have
- a single file !Boot (rather than application directory) created by the
- automatic 'Desktop Boot' facility.
-
- This makes the start up much quicker. I'm currently looking into another
- way of drastically speeding up the ARM250 machines (where the title page
- display is still rather slow). Details at a later date if successful.
-
- Hope this is useful!
-
- Simon.
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