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- Title: Archimedes Floppy-Boot
- Version: 1.00
- Date: 16th August 1993
- By: Raoul Sargent
- Email: ARCADE BBS User#770
- Digital Databank BBS User#380
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- Description:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- FloppyBoot is designed to provide "PC Style" booting from a Floppy Disc such that
- the booting process will take place from a Floppy Disc instead of the Default
- Boot drive if a floppy is inserted. (Only of use for harddisc users).
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- Although this may not be very elegant, it does work!
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- This was one of those things which you knock-up one evening just to see what it'd
- be like, christ knows why?
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- Files:
- ~~~~~
- The following files are required...
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- Directory "+FlopyBoot" contains...
- "ReadMe" This text file
- Directory "OnFloppy" contains...
- "!Boot" Desktop Boot File
- "FloppyBoot" BASIC
- Directory "OnHardDisc" contains...
- "!Boot" Desktop Boot File
- "FloppyBoot" BASIC
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- Instructions:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Floppy Disc...
- 1) Format a floppy disc and give it the name "FloppyBoot".
- 2) Place, in the root directory, the two files contained within the
- directory "OnFloppy".
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- Hard Disc...
- 3) Take a copy of your HardDisc !Boot file, as a backup just in case.
- 4) Edit your HardDisc !Boot file and include the contents of the file
- "!Boot" in directory "OnHardDisc".
- This is only one line and is ideally placed as the first executable line.
- (The comments may be removed!)
- 5) Place the file "FloppyBoot", also contained within directory "OnHardDisc",
- in a suitable place on your harddisc.
- 6) Amend the "!Boot" file to point to where you placed this file (see step 5).
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- You may now Boot your Archimedes from the "FloppyBoot" disc.
- Simply place it in your floppy drive and reset your Archimedes.
- Providing you have performed the above steps correctly your normal !Boot sequence
- will be temporarily suspended.
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- In Use:
- ~~~~~~
- FloppyBoot is currently setup to prompt the user to answer (C)ontinue or (A)bort.
- A reply of "C" will cause the Boot sequence to continue as normal.
- A reply of anything other than "C" will cause the file "FloppyBoot" on the floppy
- disc to continue execution. It will currently just put up a message stating that
- the Boot sequence has been aborted.
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- This file may obviously be amended to perform anything you like.
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- The Future:
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- I don't have any plans for improving this routine.
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- If anyone does like it (why!?) or makes it into something more powerfull, elegant
- or even usefull I would be interested in a copy, please.
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- This collection of routines may be amended, altered, hacked, messed around with as
- much as you like, I don't really care.
- (None of this ShareWare or Copyright stuff, it's totally PublicDomain - If you want it!)
- All I ask is that I get to see any incarnation of this this routine or any application
- inspired by it, (out of curiosity really).
- ...Raoul
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