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- !Help for !MultiBoot (c) Phil Norman 10th June 1995
-
- Hello. If you are anything like me when it comes to computers, you will have
- wished many times that you could load up !Printers, !PipeDream (or Impression
- if you have it) and all the stuff you need for writing letters or producing
- great works of publishing. So, as a result, you will have added 56 lines
- to your !Boot file (or application) to load all this stuff. A little later,
- when all you want to do is play a game of Stunt Racer 2000 with a friend
- (soon to be a mortal enemy!), you will have cursed and torn your hair out
- for writing such a long and time-consuming !Boot file.
-
- This is where !MultiBoot comes in. It is a simple BASIC program which does
- little more than see if you're holding any keys down and load up a file. It
- can cope with 27 different !Boot files which can all be run by holding down
- a key. All you need to do is ammend the files in the 'BootFiles' directory,
- which is hidden inside the !MultiBoot application directory.
-
- Depending on whether you have a !Boot file or application, you should do the
- following:
-
-
- 1: For a !Boot file...
-
- Copy the contents of your !Boot file into the !Defaults file in the directory
- '!MultiBoot.BootFiles'. Then create a new !Boot file which simply contains:
-
- Filer_Run <pathname>.!MultiBoot
-
- where <pathname> is the name (the FULL name) of the directory in which
- !MultiBoot resides. eg. If you have put !MultiBoot in the directory 'Apps'
- on the root of your hard disc (my hard disc is called 'RockHard', but
- replace this woth the name of your hard disc), the line should read:
-
- Filer_Run ADFS::RockHard.$.Apps.!MultiBoot
-
- Now skip the next bit and go to 'Creating multiple boot files'.
-
-
- 2: For a !Boot application...
-
- NOTE - this is for a RiscPC-style !Boot application.
- Find the position of your desktop !Boot file. This should be:
-
- ADFS::RockHard.$.!Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks.!Boot
-
- Copy !MultiBoot into the same directory where the destop !Boot file resides.
- Then, copy the contents of your desktop !Boot file into the !Defaults file
- in the directory '!MultiBoot.BootFiles'. Then, you can delete the original
- !Boot file. You won't need it anymore.
-
-
-
-
- Creating multiple boot files
-
- To create an alternative boot file, you need to edit one if the Obey files
- (with names from A to Z) inside the '!MultiBoot.BootFiles' directory. For
- example, if you want to create a file to put all your favourite games on
- the pinboard and load up !FishFS (a pseudo-filing system written by me),
- you would probably edit the file entitled 'G' and put all the relevant
- commands in there. If you do a lot of programming and want to create a
- file to load up !Zap, !SciCalc, !StrongHelp and !BackDrop (!BackDrop is
- a very advanced backdrop plotting application by me), you would probably
- edit the file 'B' (for Basic) and type in all the relevant Filer_Runs and
- Filer_OpenDirs.
-
-
- Using !MultiBoot
-
- To access these alternative boot files, simply hold down a key (B to load
- file 'B' etc.) while the computer is booting up, and the relevant boot file
- will be run.