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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEMBOOT and the Megas
Message-ID: <900@atari.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 15:45:19 EST
Article-I.D.: atari.900
Posted: Fri Dec  4 15:45:19 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 06:38:52 EST
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in article <608@aucs.UUCP>, 870646c@aucs.UUCP (barry comer) says:
> 
> Hi all, well my Mega2 just landed on my desk, really nice. I've got a question for all other Mega owners using the hard disks, I have been using GEMBOOT with
> my 1040ST all along, when I boot up the Mega two bombs appear then disappear
> after GEMBOOT has done its thing.

DO NOT USE GEMBOOT.  Use FOLDRXXX from Atari.  HINSTALL should be available,
too... It makes your hard disk bootable (no "boot floppy" needed).

There are lots of little hacks which work on the 520/1040 but won't work on
the Megas.  This is because the unpublished locations in ROM have changed
(as I've been promising all along).  Anything which fools with the system
at as low a level as GEMBOOT will probably not work.

FOLDRXXX works because Landon Dyer wrote it with an eye toward
ROM-independence.  It checks to see what date your ROMs are, and
patches the appropriate location in the OS.  In the case of the Mega
ROMs, he actually added a pointer in the OS header which points to
the necessary spot, so FOLDRXXX will work for all future ROM releases.

Even old TOS ROM users should probably not use GEMBOOT... I certainly
wouldn't trust it, and with FOLDRXXX and HINSTALL available, you just
don't need it.

(HINSTALL may not be as available as I think, but I know it's been on
CompUPay and GEnie...  Maybe even here.  Can anybody tell me (by mail!)
if HINSTALL and FOLDRXXX have both appeared on Usenet?)

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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
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