A B O U T H E L P ! Save Conf Load Conf Q U I T ! Load Dir Install DF0 DF1 DF2 DF3 AllocMem CHIP FAST PUBLIC Absolute LD $ JP $ NORMAL BootBlock: FadeBlack Display 1 Display 2 Loading config file... Saving config file... Loading file... Saving file... failed! done! aborted! ERROR: CAN'T READ FILE ERROR: CAN'T WRITE FILE ERROR: OUT OF MEMORY ERROR: CAN'T OPEN TRACKDISK ERROR: CAN'T WRITE BOOTBLOCK ERROR: NO FILE LOADED ERROR: WRONG LOAD ADDRESS ERROR: WRONG JUMP ADDRESS ERROR: TEXT LONGER THAN 40 CHARS ! CHOOSE --> DISPLAY 2 <-- ERROR: CAN'T READ CONFIG FILE ERROR: CAN'T WRITE CONFIG FILE -->> THE TRACKERS/TFP <<-- proudly present B O O T F I L E L O A D E R V2.20 Coded by: DICE Gfx by: THE CHOSEN ONE THE TRACKERS/TFP , P.O. BOX 112 W-2850 BREMERHAVEN 31, UNITED GERMANY __ ____ ____ / /\ / / \ / / \ / / \ / / / / / /\ \ ______ / / / /_/ /\ /_/ \/ / ______ /_____/\ /_/ \ \ \ / \ \ / /_____/\ \_____\/ \ \ \ o \ \ \ o \ \ \ o \_____\/ \_\/\ / \ \ / \ \ / \_\/ \_\/ \_\/ Trackers Fun Productions THE TRACKERS IN 1993 PROUDLY PRESENT ---===»»»>>> BOOTFILELOADER V2.20 <<<«««===--- THIS NICE PIECE OF WORK WAS DONE ... ... BY FOLLOWING TRACKERS/TFP MEMBERS CODING & DESIGN : DICE GRAPHICS : THE CHOSEN ONE MUZAK : MUMU GREAT WORK! CODING BY: DICE ...ABOUT THIS NICE PRODUCTION !!!... GFX BY: THE CHOSEN ONE MORE|NO MORE HELP !!! Written some night by DICE ! -=»> TRACKERS <«=- HELP !!! ---===»»»>>> BOOTFILELOADER V2.20 <<<«««===--- Releasing Date: Thursday, 16th Mai 1993 This is the second, fully rewritten version of our great loader. With this piece of code you are able to load your intros from the Bootblock STOP STOP STOP not like the other ones, this loader reads it from a FILE not directly from disk... Take a look to the following pages... CONTACT THE TRACKERS UNDER: TFP P.O. BOX 112 W-2850 BREMERHAVEN 31 GERMANY Have fun ... Sense of a FILE loader: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All of you know the nice proggys to load an intro, a menu etc from Bootblock. They wrote the intro trackwise on disk, some on free sectors, some on sectors you have to define. So you are able to run an intro from bootblock very quickly, but ALL of this loaders have ONE PROBLEM: If your compi crashs while writing on disk, the disk will be new validated. This validation causes a new bitmap and your allocated sectors will be declared as free sectors. Or the fuckin' disk- validator can't handle the crash and you have to use diskdoctor. The result is that the bootblock can't read the right sectors coz they are overwritten. The TRACKERS/TFP BOOTFILELOADER doesn't read the intro from fixed sectors. It reads the intro FROM A FILE on the disk, so you are able to handle the disk you want (except destroying the BB or the file). Discription of Gadgets: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You will see on the screen many gadgets, i will start with the first line: ABOUT -- Test it out. HELP -- You are just reading the Helptext ! SAVE CONFIG -- The status of the gadgets and the contents of the Stringgadgets will be saved in a file named 'S:BFL.CONFIG' LOAD CONFIG -- After clicking this gadget the proggy trys to open the config file and the gadgets will be setted new. Of coz this routine is called on every start of the Bootfieloader, you mustn't call it yourself ! QUIT -- Do you rather like EXIT or BYE! ??? Below this gadgets you'll find: LOAD -- Loads the intro by its name. DIR -- Opens a ReqTools-Filerequester where you can select your intro. A STRING GAD -- contains the name of your intro which have to be loaded from BootBlock. And the saverountine.... INSTALL -- Saves the loaded file on disk and writes the loader on the disk's bootblock. DF0-DF3 -- the selected gadget shows the drive on which the intro has to be installed. You can only choose available drives. there are two ways to get memory from ... AllocMem -- If you choose this option the bootloader will get all the memory by using the AllocMem Routine of Exec. There are three different Memtypes: CHIP -- Your Chipmem FAST -- Fastmem (be carefully !) PUBLIC -- Chip or Fast Absolute -- This option cause the bootblock to load the file to a fixed memory address: LD -- contains the address to load the file in JP -- contains the address to jump in more than one bootblock ... Normal -- This is a bootblock only loading the file. FadeBlack -- the display will be faded to black before loading the file. Display1 -- displays a text in lores while loading the file. Coz it's lores the limit is 40 chars. You can write your text in the stringgadget on the screenbuttom. Display2 -- displays a text in medres while loading the file. A limit of 80 chars is set. Big hole on screen ... MessageBox -- There is a messagebox on the left side of the screen. Discription of Messages on the following pages Discription of ERROR-MESSAGES: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Perhaps you'll get sometimes some errors, i think i wrote them in a understandable way but... CAN'T READ FILE -- possible reasons: - Wrong Filename - Disk read error - Disk removed CAN'T WRITE FILE -- possible reasons: - Disk write protected - Disk write error - No disk inserted - Disk full OUT OF MEMORY -- not enough memory to load the file CAN'T OPEN TRACKDISK -- Ooppsss...your TD had been removed!? CAN'T WRITE BOOTBLOCK -- possible reasons: - Disk write protected - Disk write error - No disk inserted NO FILE LOADED -- Grrr... you have to load a file to install ! WRONG LOAD ADDRESS -- possible reasons: - odd address - no address (=0) WRONG JUMP ADDRESS -- like WRONG LOAD ADDRESS TEXT LONGER THAN 40.. -- If you select the Display1-BB your text has to be lesser than 40 chars choose the Display2-BB ! CAN'T READ CONFIG FILE -- possible reasons: - no config file exists - disk read error CAN'T WRITE CONFIG F. -- possible reasons: - Disk write protected - Disk write error - no S:-dir ????? That's all ~~~~~~~~~~ All coding, design and helptext done by: D I C E Great ansis and graphics painted by: THE CHOSEN ONE Superb music composed with ProTracker by: M u M u Golden regards to all TRACKERS members around the globe and to all our friends. Personal thanx from DICE/TFP to VISION28 for some nice phone calls and tips... I hope you enjoy this nice work ... ... DICE of THE TRACKERS/TFP BFL: Need ReqToolsLibrary 37+ LOAD FILE ! -->> TRACKERS <<-- DFX:TFP-BOOT S:BFL.CONFIG