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From: maxc1503@ucselx.sdsu.edu (David Tse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten the MacRom2 program to work? (help me)
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.214935.22044@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 91 21:49:35 GMT
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jeff@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Jeff Mosher) writes:
>My MacROM says MacROM2.lzh also, and the message after execution is also
>MacROM 1.1.

>I've gotten some responses saying they've gotten it to work but none
>of the responders elaborated on what they did EXACTLY to get it to
>work...   Can anybody be a little more specific on what WE can do to get
>it to work? Thanks in advance, your information is very appreciated!

At first I cannot save the ROM on disk with MacROM 1.1, and FastMax2 crashed,
so I don't have any ROM image on file to start the load part. However, I copied
the ROM file from a friend (I have real roms, but just can't get to save), and
tried it successfully. I put MacROM 1.1, the rom file and AMaxII all under
the same directory, then I execute the following sequence on a shell, just 
like you were told on the readme file:

MacROM -L rom_file
A-MaxStartup

I hit go AMax on the set-up screen, the next screen appeared, the ROMs got
loaded from the hard disk in a second. I hit return, and the Mac screen is
booted from my AMAX hard disk partition.

Several days later, someone posted (the author I think) that FastMax3.lzh
is up in the ftp sites; so I downloaded it to give it a try; this time
it works fine on the Shell, but the IconX is still screwed up, he put
XIcon instead, and the script file is wrong. I did the following:

FastMax A-MaxStartup    (if you just type FastMax, it looks for A-Max Startup
with a space in between as default).
then it prompts you for a return and etc. It reads the ROM from my cartridge,
saved under a name called "Mac ROMs", and patches the A-MaxStartup, and copy
the old one as "Original A-MaxStartup" (rename it).

I then execute this A-MaxStartup (double click), it loaded the ROM file it
created very fast during the loading time, and A-Max is booted correctly.
This is better, since I don't have to run a script, and MacROM 1.1 will
leave a non-closable window if you escape A-Max boot/setup screen.

Conclusion: FastMax3 can replace MacROM 1.1, it's cleaner and easier.
MacROM 1.1 won't save, only loads.

David Tse


>Jeff


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