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Short: Booting from Amiga or Shapeshifter, SFS replacement
Uploader: Tcn@lbcmbx.in-berlin.de (Timo C. Nentwig)
Author: Tcn@lbcmbx.in-berlin.de (Timo C. Nentwig)
Type: util/boot
NAME
SysBoot 0.4
Copyright © 1995 by Timo C. Nentwig
STATUS
SysBoot is now (0.4 and higher) Giftware. That means that you (the
user of SysBoot) MUST send me anything for SysBoot.
REQUIREMENTS
AmigaOS 2+
7Bit Screeenmode
PURPOSE
[SFS-Replacement]
SysBoot opens a window on its own custom screen in which a Amiga and
a Apple image is displayed.
Now the user can choose between booting either the Amiga or the MAC
(ShapeShifter).
So, only the Amiga or only the Apple is booting and you save memory.
USAGE
If Apple is choosed, SysBoot returns WARN.
Your Startup-Sequence could look so:
SysBoot <options>
IF WARN
Execute S:Mac-Startup
ELSE
Execute S:Amiga-Startup
ENDIF
OPTIONS
The advantage in opposite to SFS is that SysBoot is configurable.
SysBoot <options>
EXAMPLE
SysBoot -id 1078067204 -imag 4 -t 15 -fc 4
OPTIONS
1) -t <sec> oder -timeout <sec>
After <sec> SysBoot automatically starts the Amiga.
2) -id <id> oder -modeid <id>
ModeID defines the screenmode that SysBoot should use.
Get <id> with GetModeID (included in this archive) from the PicBoot
archive.
3) -aimg <1-4> oder -amigaimage <1-4>
Choose between 4 Amiga images.
4) -fc <0-127> oder framecolor <0-127>
Define color of frame with which selecting the gadgets.
TODO
Well, SysBoot's still pre-1.0 but I think there's not very much to
do.
I still don't like the images although they are in 7 bits now ...
Please send me images if you have any nice images !!! That would be
a greate gift ;-) !!
EXAMPLE
s:startup-sequence
PrePareEmul >NIL:
SetPatch >NIL:
Assign env: envarc:
DH1:Devs/Monitors/Spectrum
DH1:C/SysBoot -id 1078067204 -img 3 -t 10 -fc 5
IF WARN
Execute s:MAC-startup
ELSE
Execute s:Amiga-startup
ENDIF
HISTORY
CNG = CHANGED
ADD = ADDED
REM = REMOVED
FIX = FIXED
30 Jul 1995 - 0.1
first runable version
31 Jul 1995 - 0.2
CNG: window's now centered
REN: border
REM: dragbar/title
ADD: Rückgabewert
FIX: images now look ok
CNG: window's size
02 Aug 1995 - 0.3
<initial release>
ADD: Support for CLI arguments
ADD: Image and ModeID chooseable
ADD: CloseWorkBench() for determinating popup of WB
ADD: return and esc are used
REM: CLI argument "-mode"
ADD: CLI argument -timeout <sec>
20 Aug 1995 - 0.4
CNG: Gadgets with TAB chooseable
REM: Amiga-Bevelbox
ADD: CLI argument -framecolor
CNG: Now 7Bit Images
AUTHOR
Timo C. Nentwig
Edelhofdamm 35
13465 Berlin
Tcn@lbcmbx.in-berlin.de
Comments, suggestions, bugreports etc. to the address above.