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From: kskelm@happy.colorado.edu
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Subject: EVERYONE-- DOWNLOAD Bootmenu!
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Date: 28 Feb 91 15:09:27 GMT
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In article <1991Feb28.170806.136@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis) writes:
> but had no real sucess (guess we'll just have to wait for wb2.0 for on
> the fly ntsc/pal :-) - in the meantime the best you can do is select screen

    In my BETA 2.02 release of Workbench, I can find *NO* switches for
NTSC/PAL.

> modes at boot time - to facilitate this I knocked up a program by the
> name of BootMenu (which you can find in /incoming/amiga on
> abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov) which allows _user_selectable (via a menu) choice
> of screen modes at every reboot (it wedges itself into the system). That
> means that once you've loaded it, you can reboot at any time and re-choose
> NTSC/PAL (unlike PalBoot where you've got to run it each time you want to go
> PAL - a real pain).

    FOLKS-- I Downloaded this program last night-- It is EXCELLENT!!!!!!
I especially like the part where it can disable all expansion cards, including
the harddrive at boot time, making it impossible (less likely?) that a virus in
the demo can screw you up.

   John-- If you would consider doing ONE SMALL modification?????
.........Make it possible to specify +(P|N) for PAL/NTSC and +/-E (en/disable
expansion devices) on the BootMenu command line!  See, I would like to be able
to say...
 
    BootMenu +P +E
 
  ... In my startup sequence so that it will ALWAYS set PAL mode and enable
expansion devices w/o being asked or pausing. (I'm a developer = I crash and
reboot a LOT :-).  Whichever item NOT provided on the command line would still
ask.  
 
     ...And maybe a BootMenu kill???
 
     Super.

     Thanks for a truly useful program,
 
      Kevin Kelm