new hot-keys have been designed. Nothing has changed in the user interface since version 3.10. program <4> Determines whether or not the key combo CBM + Shift will be active or not. The How To's The "BOOTING" appears or not. "MacBootMake" is used to <5> Forces "small letter" character set. quickly and easily supply bootsectors for the . 1540, 1541, 1570, 1571, 1581 and similar disk The last three settings determine the parameters drives. The utility is written in pure BASIC V7, of the program which starts at boot time: and works in both 40 and 80 track modes (the modes will be used accordingly, for example New... <6> Accepts the name of the file. Next, an with the Directory function). alternative device address will be asked for. If After you load and start the program, boot block, so that the program can be run from such an address is entered, it will be saved in the You may remember a program called "MacBootMake", included on the July 1999 cover disk. Unfortunately, the file was corrupt, so we've included a the program and an sequence conversion $0d was ovcrzcalous already Windows/ $0a-Bytes through the SOa from were "LF" to exchanged MSDOS (a type "CRLF"), something which quite effectively destroyed the BASIC program. The test C=128 used by the editor was defective, and thus the error was not detected in time. was therefore unusable with the international version of GO64! (introduced with issue 8/99), it was not published anew. Until now, that is. with configuration, the bottom region with the <7> Sets the boot program type: BASIC or Machine Language (this is done so that the The first two points show which disk drive is chosen before the boot program is started - this active: setting is only relevant if you've selected Machine Language in number <7>. <+> and <-> change the device address in the range of 4 to 30. All corresponding functions of Functions the program will use these addresses. displays information about the program <1> changes the device type, either "1541/71" (e.g. the Version) or"158r. CAUTION: If you make an error enter a boot greeting with this setting you can lose all of the data on tests the boot greeting your disk! deals with the actual work: this function saves a boot block with the new words, boot Because the program used German screen text and the main menu appears. The area above deals <8> Sets the memory bank which will be Due to the combination of a badly configured Netscape combo, all functionality would only seldom be used, you would normally hit return at this request. Adjusting the settings... corrupted by the time it was downloaded: webserver ":nbm3 2 3 " correct calling command is used). by Marco "Mac Bacon " Baye then, run actual work. working copy this month. Back another disk drive. Sinee this relatively esoteric In addition to the new cnglish-languagc version of the program, some The next four lines determine the appearance of the Bootscrccn: greeting, etc... to the chosen disk drive. removes a boot sector from the chosen disk drive. <2> The local character set can be forced from here (only makes sense with non US machines). sends a command to the disk drive (see the disk drive manual). shows current contents. <3> Determines if the system message quits the program. That's it! What this program can't do The newly produced boot block will be shown in the BAM as being occupied, but would be removed by the command '"vO" (COLLECT on the 128) due to the missing sector chaining. The disks should not be validated. With the 1581, there is a way to disable this (you have to create a partition which exits only on sector 0, track I), but to get that sector back, the program must scan the directory of this "one block" partition. Such a scan is not possible. Happy coding ! (ws) N1 O