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- echo BIOSSIG 3.2L consists of the .EXE Version 3.2 and the .DBA with 390+ BIOSs.
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- echo If you are running this release from a 360kb floppy disk, you will find that
- echo the database has grown to the point that there is not room for a 65kb BIOS to
- echo be saved. One way to resolve the problem is to use the DOS "PRINT" command
- echo to print off the Documentation file and then delete the "BIOSSIG.DOC" file from
- echo the disk. Another method is to delete the "PROLOG.ERR" file. It contains the
- echo text for error messages and if you don't have any...you won't need the text...
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- echo Control-C will break out of this batch file and allow you to print the
- echo .doc file...any other key will continue with the batch file and run the
- echo BIOSSIG program.
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- echo First you will execute BIOSSIG.EXE which attempts to match your BIOS ROM
- echo against a database containing information on 390+ BIOS's.
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- echo If we have Your BIOS ROM already in our database, when you select a Quick Scan
- echo Menu Selection, all of your BIOS's Signature Fields will be displayed.
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- echo If you do not get a 100 percent match ( with a CRC match ), then consider
- echo capturing information from your BIOS and sending it to us so we can add
- echo your BIOS's signature information to the database. This batch file will
- echo tell you where to send the file when you exit the program.
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- echo If you have a monochrome adapter, the program may clear the screen and then
- echo appear to hang. You can Press Control C, answer Y and then type: "runme mono".
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- echo If you have a Color Graphics Adapter that "snows" then type: "runme snow" or
- echo use the Optional Customization Menu within BIOSSIG.
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- echo If you can't run BIOSSIG successfully, all the more reason to run rom_capt,
- echo rename the file "all_64k.rom" to something that describes your BIOS, and
- echo send it to us at the address or BBS listed later in this runme.bat file.
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- echo You can either mail a disk with the BIOS Signature file(s) to:
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- echo Mike Focke
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- echo Or you may upload the file(s) to us on Jeff Morley's Interconnect BBS at
- echo 703-425-2505. Use Door 1 to register online for full access the first
- echo time on! ZIP or not as you please. Since I use MNP, the .ROM files
- echo actually transfer to me just as fast as the .ZIP files. Please make it a
- echo private upload/download by preceding the file description with a "/" and
- echo leave Mike Focke a PRIVATE message with the filename. For example:
- echo "/ for focke...bios from VF computers XT clone".
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- echo An alternate BBS is the Byrd's Nest 703-671-8923
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- echo As not everyone who sends a BIOS has described what they see when their
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- echo Chris Stevens has submitted a BIOS that is in the database in terms of
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- echo previously received. Therefore BIOSSIG 3.2 implements Cyclic Redundancy
- echo Check (CRC) validation to differentiate between such BIOSs.
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- echo If we have received a BIOS from you .... thanks.
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- echo If we have received one and have failed to give appropriate credit...
- echo shame on us...please leave me a note on the Interconnect.
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- echo We would especially appreciate some help in finding the original IBM
- echo PC, XT, Convertable, AT and PS-2 Model 80 20mhz BIOSs. We need the new
- echo PS/2 model 30/286 too. And the Portable PS/2 Model 70
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- echo If you run a 386 machine which shadows the BIOS for additional speed,
- echo either turn off the shaddowing or run RAM-CAPT. You can tell which one
- echo because the wrong one will produce a file with all square boxes for the
- echo entire file. Lots of BIOSs produce square boxes in the begining but a
- echo shadowed BIOS file will be all boxes unless you use RAM-CAPT or turn
- echo off the shadowing and run ROM-CAPT.
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- echo BIOSSIG updates will appear regularly on Jeff Morley's Interconnect BBS
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- echo Thanks again for your help from Ricki Vick and Mike Focke.
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- echo You may also want to try BIOSTREE.EXE which is a display of the BIOS
- echo family tree. It allows you to trace the history of your BIOS and
- echo see where it came from and if we know of any later versions.
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