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- GSETUP 3.0 - 2/88
-
- (c) 1986,1987 Micro Consulting Associates
- 868 Ashford Avenue, Suite 6B
- Condado, Puerto Rico 00907
- (809) 721-8470
- GEnie: J.JIMENEZ MCI Mail: JJIMENEZ
-
- Author: Juan Jimenez
-
- GSETUP is a generic SETUP program for the IBM-PC/AT Personal
- Computer and all TRUE compatibles. The program is designed to
- allow you to set/modify CMOS ram values to tell the system what
- the time, date, type and number of floppy disk drives and hard
- disks, monitor type, etc., are for your personal computer.
-
- It is similar in concept and design to the SETUP utility that
- comes with the diagnostics diskette that you get when you buy an
- IBM-PC/AT, with the notable difference that GSETUP can be run
- from DOS without having to reset your machine first, and the user
- interface/menu system is much more "friendly" (I do hate cliches,
- but "friendly" is all I could come up with, sorry...)
-
- To install GSETUP, rename the file GSETUP30.EXE to GSETUP.EXE and
- place it into your DOS directory or into any directory that is
- included in your PATH statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Once
- you do this you are ready to roll. To execute the program, type:
-
- GSETUP [Enter]
-
- You will be presented with the main menu, which is a pop-up
- window with three menu choices.
-
- There are three basic functions to GSETUP:
-
- 1) CMOS ram parameter setting/modification.
-
- 2) Diagnostics (not operational in version 3.0, but if
- some of you finally decide to register I just might
- sit down and write the best darn diagnostics package
- for your PC that you will ever find... I've written
- diagnostics for everything from printers to modules
- in the B-1 Supersonic Bomber. Believe me when I say I
- can do it...).
-
- 3) Preparing your system for relocation.
-
- 4) Resetting (cold boot) of the computer upon exiting the
- program.
-
- Note that the hard disk type selection allows you to choose from
- all the available types in your machine's ROM BIOS parameter
- table. Make sure that you select the proper type entry. If you
- are not sure, call the dealer that sold you your computer, or,
- better yet, the people who made your hard disk (i.e. Seagate,
- Miniscribe, Maxtor, Priam, etc.) and read them the parameters
- displayed for each one of the hard disk types you can select.
- They will tell you which one(s) can be used with your particular
- brand/model hard disk.
-
- The code for the CBOOT and CPUID routines is included here (if you
- registered you copy of GSETUP with us and received a real disk),
- in both assembly language and .OBJ formats. The source for WINDOW4C,
- the windowing library, is not included as it is a proprietary
- shareware product of WindowSoft, Inc. and Glen Boyd. If you would
- like more information about it, send me a msg via GEnie or
- MCI Mail and I will be more than happy to get you a copy of the
- distribution package with docs but no source code except for a
- demo. If you want the full package, you'll have to contact
- WindowSoft. Note that all of these are set up for small memory
- model. If you want to use them in your code in other memory
- models you'll have to make the appropriate modifications
- yourself.
-
- Also note that the [F1] function key has now been enabled as the
- HELP key in most menus, with a couple of exceptions where I did
- not think it was necessary to display help.
-
- Release and modification history:
-
- Version 1.0, 6/12/86: Initial release
-
- Version 1.1, 6/13/86: Added re-boot on change in CMOS, cleaned
- up some of the code.
-
- Version 1.2, 6/17/86: Add check for CMOS ram power failure on
- startup and tell user if that is the
- case, then exit.
-
- Version 1.3, 6/21/86: Fixed bug in equipment byte settings.
- Program was telling CMOS that system had
- the wrong number of floppies.
-
- Version 1.4, 6/25/86: Refused to setup a machine with dead
- CMOS... Made several changes, including
- CMOS clearing on a dead CMOS condition,
- setup of status parameters and other
- nasty crawlies. Big RAID raid.
-
- (... and 1 year later...)
-
- Version 1.5, 6/26/87: Turbo C port, squashed spontaneous
- reboot bug, darn thing wanted to reboot
- for no reason, saying CMOS values had
- changed after prep for reloc. Now
- reboots any time you run the program,
- just like real SETUP.
-
- Version 2.0, 7/10/87: Windows! Added use of Glen Boyd's
- "WINDOW4C" routines, ported to Turbo C
- from Lattice 2.12 by yours truly (turns
- out Glen already wrote a TC version...
- oh, well...). Finally got around to
- fully commenting and cleaning up the
- source code, since we are now giving it
- away to contributors.
-
- Version 2.1, 8/31/87: Fixed minor bug with setting day 31 of
- month.
-
- Version 2.1a, 9/01/87: Added code to produce demo version,
- mainly #defines and some #ifdef's and
- #ifndef's. Nothing major.
-
- Version 2.2, 11/01/87: Modified hard disk type selection code
- to allow the user to choose a type from
- all the available types in his machine's
- ROM BIOS. Computer must now be a TRUE
- compatible for the program to work.
-
- Version 2.2a, 12/6/87: Added real-time updating of the time display
- in the CMOS parameters display screen.
-
- Version 2.2b, 12/16/87: Added fix for Compaq CMOS compatibility bug
- (Compaq's fault, not ours...)
-
- Version 2.2c, 12/20/87: Added support for 720k and 1.44m drives (3.5
- inch drives in normal situations...). Added
- "None" write precomp cyl display if the cyl
- specified is either non-existent or not valid.
- This just means the hard disk that the type was
- originally meant for does not need a write precomp
- cyl parameter.
-
- Version 3.0. 2/88 : Added help facility, fancier menus and displays,
- and switched to month/year version dating.
-