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
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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
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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
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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+
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