Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!linac,att!emory!wuarchive!udel!brahms.udel.edu!jeremym From: jeremym@chopin.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: MONTITOR'S POST - AMAX II WITHOUT ANNONYING ICONS!!! Keywords: amax II ... no annoying icons. Message-ID: <16708@chopin.udel.edu> Date: 19 Mar 91 04:46:17 GMT Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 116 Well.. I know there are pirate versions of AMAX running around there... and I know many of you have hacked the ROMS, and then deviously passed them on to friends. I cant do much to prevent you from doing this - except to hope that this wont continue. Apple, in my opinion, really should relenquish their hold on Mac Roms.. but, in any case, here goes: ***THE WAY TO CREAT AN AMAX1: partition and how to MOUNT AMAX II WITHOUT THAT ANNOYING ndos:|| icon** Now, I have a trumpcard and a 40 meg and a 105 quantum right now, the 40 is gone tomorrow, so 105 is what its currently set at. To be safe, I'll say that this will vary from system to system, but I really cant see why... if you can follow my directions, you should have an Icon-less AMAX II. DISCLAIMER: Look - I'm an Amiga Hacker just like you and trial and error is where its at for us.. so... please, if you screw it up then thats your tough noogies... Also.. I make no claims that this'll work .. .only that this is what I did, and hey, I didnt get this job for nothing. First... you know you better do the old saying: BACK UP YOUR HARD DRIVE or PAY THE CONSEQUENCES OF BEING DRAGGED TO HELL BY AT's and PS/2's. OKey.. btw: YOU HAVE to back up, because you're gonna want to put the data back on... and in the next step or two.. we're gonna re-format your hard drive WIPING OFF THE DATA!! The next steps are for people who HAVENT GOTTEN ANY AMAX: partition on their HD... skip this if you have this knowledge: Get up your HD utilities formatting software and repartition your HD so that you have a significant chunk of AMAX space.. I had 5 megs on my 40 megger and now I have 15 on my 105. Now... make your normal partitions.. DH0: DH1: DH2: whatever.. then... TYPE I. ******************** If your software will ALLOW you to change the PHYSICAL NAME of the disk (ie: dh0:, dh1:, etc..) then make a partition called AMAX1:. The trumpcard utiltites *WILL* let you do this. I hear Supra, will not. *****TYPE II**** If your software DOES NOT support this feature, call it DHx or ie: the next dhx in the sequence. We'll fix this later. ***TYPE I & II**** Okey...DO NOT AMIGADOS FORMAT THIS PARTITION!!! ----------------------------------------------- Ahem... let me say that again, for emphesis!! Okey...DO NOT AMIGADOS FORMAT THIS PARTITION!!! ----------------------------------------------- Got it? good.. Simply make the drive in the mountlist... just be sure there's nothing there to begin with and you're cool. If you are running TYPE II then edit your mountlist, so that when you find DHx,: (the one we're gonna make AMAX1) you fix it so it gets to be AMAX1: Got it? Good. Now, we're cookin... boot up yer amax II (ahem.. not pirated, I imagine..) It will say... You're drive is basically braindead.. would you like to format it.. you say DA! or YES! OR SI! or KEN! or anything... just do it... It will.. and vwallah... you have an AMAX1: partition... The trick is, now, how do you get that crappy little icon to go away when you are in workbench? EASY! DONT MOUNT IT!!!! DUH! Look.. I have it like this... I am using a VERY teeny program called clixecute which detects if you are holding the left-mouse button ON BOOTUP. PUT THIS THE FIRST THING IN YOUR S-sequence!!! If yes.. it'll execute a program called s:leftbutton, where, you have the following script: mount amax1: amaxii-startup (or whatever it's called) and then, you're in the clear.. no icon no mess no hassle... you're set! So, wheneever you feel the need to laugh at a mac, simply HOLD down your left mouse button on BOOTUP. You'll be up and running in no time.. as you dont have the rest of the startup sequence to contend with... So play until your hard drive goes through some major crash in three months.. but in the meantime.... dont spin harddrives on a lanoleam floor without proper waxing!!! Monitor of comp.sys.amiga.emulations -jeremy -- E Pluribus // Contacts: jeremym@brahms.udel.edu or jeremym@chopin.udel.edu or Unix // jeremym@freezer.acs.udel.edu -amiga clasic 2000- \\ // --->Monitor of comp.sys.amiga.emulations<--- \X/ 2001 Dalmations - My stars, its full of dogs...