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- BootSelector 1.01
- =================
-
- © 1995 by Michael Gollmick
-
- I Distribution This is MAILWARE
- II Warranty No warranty!
- III Requirements 68060, 32MB RAM, Gfx-Board? No!
- IV Introduction Something about the program
- V Usage and Installation How to use a program
- VI BUGS No BUGS in this version, sorry
- VII The Future What future developing will bring
- VIII Credits People who helped me
- IX History The most boring part...
- X Support Hotline for free...
-
-
- Distribution
- ------------
-
- This program is MAILWARE. You may distribute this freely. If you want to
- include it into a PD-Collection, you have to read the German Guide first
- (sorry but there was no time to translate the Distibution from German into
- English)
- If you use it, you have to do a mail to me, this is the sense of MAILWARE.
- But I would'nt mind, if you dont do this (maybe if you can't).
- If you like to send me an E-Mail, please use a sheet like this:
-
- Name, Firstname:
- E-Mail :
- Country, City :
- Computer :
- Kickstart :
- Processor :
- Memory :
- Comment :
-
- You will help me by recoding BUGS and also will help giving me an over-
- view about the users of my program.
- Of course your datas will be handled seriously!
-
- Warranty
- --------
-
- There is no warranty FOR nothing, BUT IF you like reading smart
- word-constructions, you may read the following:
-
- THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE
- LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER AND/OR
- OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
- EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
- WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE
- ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU.
- SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY
- SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
- IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL
- ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM
- AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL,
- SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR
- INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR
- DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES
- OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF
- SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
- DAMAGES.
-
- Requirements
- ------------
-
- The program itself is not very demanding and should work on every Amiga. So
- there are only few requirements and this program will run on every computer
- having the following characteristics:
-
- - Amiga 500, 500+, 600, 1000, 1200, 2000, 3000, 4000; DraCo
- - Kickstart 2.0 or higher
- - Harddisk (recommended!)
- because selecting the `Startup-Sequence` in Floppy-Disks-Only-Mode is a
- little bit senseless, nevertheless the program will work.
- - a mouse of course
- - `execute`-command
-
-
- Introduction
- ------------
-
- Have you ever had a VGA or Multisysnc-Monitor, and your machine was running
- in a screenmode higher than 15kHz? Have you had the problem of an opened
- screen at the time you were booting the machine? Normally you put some
- '>NIL:' to your startup-sequence and you have no opened 15kHz screen at the
- booting of your machine, the Workbench comes with your
- higher-than-15kHzscreen. But what do you do, if you want to choose you
- startup's? You use a proggy like Bootmanager from Daniel Bachmann. But all
- theses programs, I know, have the problem of opening an own screen, and you
- have your problem again, if you want to boot the original startup-sequence
- (which is the regular case).
- Since I hate this I was searching FOR a solution, BUT I could'nt find one.
- So I decidet to write a program, which is calling another Startup-sequence
- if RMB is pressed while booting the machine. After some tries I got a
- version which was able to execute a script. So I wanted to expand this
- Version for 3-Button-Mouses, but I could'nt solute this problem until now.
- Since that, I decidet to solve my problem in the simple way, I had
- programmed.
-
- The useage + installation
- -------------------------
-
- First step:
- Simply rename your original startup-sequence which is executed usally to
- Startup-Sequence I.
- Next step:
- Write another one startup-sequence which is your alternative one (e.g.
- calling Bootmanager) and name it Startup-SequenceII.
- Put the Startup-Sequence from this archive to your S: and the file
- bootselector to your C:. After that everything should work and you can
- reboot your machine an everything should work.
-
- BUGS
- ----
-
- Testing this program took me a lot of time and today it seemed to be nearly
- bugless (as tested on a various number of Amigas with different
- characteristics), so I decided TO release Bootselector1.01
-
- Whenever a bug occurs please send me a little bug-report (address see
- below) This report should contain a description of the bug (of course,
- howelse could I do deal with this bug) and your system-configuration.
-
- PAY ATTENTION: As I have tested this program such a long time I`m very not
- glad about bug-reports (but please send them nevertheless, I
- really like getting E-mails)
-
- Whenever I recieve such a bug-report I will interupt my degree, buy a lot
- of coffee (bug-fixing can be a long and hard procedure) and fix the bugs so
- a correct version should be available soon.
-
- Your BUG-REPORTS have to be sent to:
-
- wir94dgk@studserv.uni-leipzig.de
-
- Testconfigurations:
- -AMIGA 1200, 2MB CHIP, 8MB FAST, Blizzard 1220 Turboboard, Kickstart 3.0
- -AMIGA 1200, 2MB CHIP, 4MB FAST, Blizzard 1230II Turbboboard, Kickstart 3.0
- -AMIGA 500+, 2MB CHIP, 2MB 16-BitFAST, Rocktek HD-Controller, Kickstart 3.1
- -AMIGA 500, 1MB CHIP, 1.5MB 16-BitFast, 4MB 32-BitFast, Neuroth 68020/881,
- FSE-SCSI-Controller, Kickstart 3.1
- -AMIGA 500, 512kB Chip, 512kB Fast, Kickstart 2.04
-
- The future
- ----------
-
- What I have planed for further version, what might be included
-
-
- - the most important thing: polling for all mouse-buttons (including RMB)
- - a GUI,
- - a config-file, but that has to be demanded (and is certainly of no use
- unless a GUI is implemented)
-
- I`m very thankful for suggestions concerning this program as well as for
- further projects. Your name will be included in my credit list and you will
- recieve a free update (seems to be a little bit strange because this
- program is FREEWARE, doesn`t it?).
-
- Credits
- -------
-
- I`m very thankful to:
-
- Michael Reichenbach and Oliver Steinhäuser
- - for agonizing beta-testing
- - as well as for some ideas which are implemented in this
- project or which might be included in later versions
-
- Pascal Behrend
- - for reworking the german manual
- - for translating the manual into English (Have you ever red
- my translation? No? - Seems to be the best!)
-
- Commodore
- - for developing the best computer (up to today) with a
- tremedous Operating System.
-
- History
- -------
-
- The story so far...
-
- ... Version 0.10 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - mouse-buttons are detected
- ... Version 0.20 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - executeing a script when pressing the mouse-button
- ... Version 0.30 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - program reacts on RMB
- - executes a script
- ... Version 0.40 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - The program is protected against some errors and gives an information
- - Information-output, if not sent to NIL:
- ... Version 0.50 - FIRST OFFICIAL RELEASE
- - Bootselector released (Aminet, see also Aminet CD 6)
- - includet the Version-String for VERSION
- ... Version 0.60 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - GUI implemented, mangels Erfahrung jedoch nicht
- ... Version 0.61 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - Mousedetection improoved (more save detection)
- ... Version 0.62 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - MMB is used now BUGfree for the first time
- ... Version 0.70 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - Tooltype-detection (Script-directory and two Startup-
- Sequencen have to be entered)
- ... Version 0.71 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - bug fixed: machine doesn`t crash any longer when there are
- no tooltypes -> defaults are set instead
- ... Version 0.72 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - new Errorhandlingroutine
- - detecting RMB makes problems
- ... Version 0.73 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - detection of RMB is cancelled for now
- - Source has been changed
- - Errorhandlingroutine has been improoved
- ... Version 0.74 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - Errorhandlingroutine is not BUGfree yet
- - code optimized a little bit (gained 297 bytes)
- ... Version 0.75 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - code optimized again (gained 1234 bytes)
- ... Version 0.80 - BETA-RELEASE of `BootSelector`
- ... Version 0.81 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - bug fixed: machine crashed when a wrong directory was set
- ... Version 0.82 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - a script is only executed when set in tooltypes
- ... Version 0.83 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - checks now the Directory-Tooltype and adds a "/" if ":" or "/"
- is missing
- ... Version 0.84 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - if SCRIPTDIR isn`t set -> S: is default-directory
- ... Version 0.85 - NOT RELEASED OFFICIALLY
- - if REGULAR isn`t set -> program is brought to an end
- ... Version 1.00 - CANCELLED IN LAST MOMENT, CAUSE OF A BUG
- - removed the ReadTooltype()-BUG
- - Documentation has been overworked from Pascal and Tina
- - making the .GUIDE
-
-
- Hope you can use this program. I would be happy about any reactions to this
- program. If you use it or if you have problems/questions, so feel free to
- contact me under:
- wir94dgk@studserv.uni-leipzig.de
- I will try TO answer questions IF I can.
-
- Michael Gollmick
- in august 1995
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