Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad
From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: KickFont2, Screenx, Ushar
Message-ID: <11004@cup.portal.com>
Date: 7 Nov 88 01:14:29 GMT
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As has been discussed on BBS-JC, if you want to coax out the Kickfont2's
fonts, simply fire up FED (aka FontEditor), specify TOPAZ 8 ( and TOPAZ 9),
then save the fonts to files on disk.

Then you can use 1.3's ``FF'' to establish those newly-saved files as your
fonts.

In case this isn't clear:

boot under 1.2, extract out the fonts using FED, save to disk.

boot under 1.3, then specify those saved-font files to ``FF''.

Personally, I think altering the fonts directly on the Kickstart disk is more
fun!  :-)

And I discovered an interesting "trick" that one can exploit if the
Kickstart's checksum is NOT modified:

a three-finger-reset will send you all the way back to the "Insert Kickstart"
prompt.

Think about THAT for a moment.

You can boot up alternate Kickstarts WITHOUT having to power down the machine.

The above works only for the A1000 systems, and exploits the (apparent) fact
the OS doesn't check its checksum on a "cold" boot (from Kickstart disk) but
does checks its checksum on a "warm" boot (CTRL-AMIGA-AMIGA).

No more having to power-down/-up the system (with attendant current surges,
thermal shock, etc.) when one wishes to display the ol' Flying Eagle demo
from 1985 under Kickstart V27  (the 1.3 Kickstart is V34.5)


Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]