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: Beautiful Boot :
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: by MiniAppler and Apple Bandit :
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: Copyright [C] 1984 Midwest Pirates Guild (MPG,) all rights forgotten :
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For years, many pirates have created the DOSless disk--that is, a disk that has
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no DOS on it, so that more space was left on the disk for programs. The only
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problem with this was, if you wanted to run one of the programs, you had to
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boot up another disk that had DOS on it, then stick in the DOSless disk, and
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then Run/Brun the program you wanted. Well, forget it. MiniAppler and Apple
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Bandit have come up with a program that will eliminate those problems forever.
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The program, Beautiful Boot, sits on track 0, and has its own built-in RWTS
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and fastloader program. When the disk with Beautiful Boot on it is booted up,
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the hi-res graphics screen will clear, and a menu with the binary files on the
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disk will show up. The background will have stars floating by, in color. To
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run (Brun) one of the programs, just hit the letter indicated in the menu. Al-
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so, the following control keys will work in the program:
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/Return/ -------> Read another directory from the same drive
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/Spacebar/ -------> Read another directory from different drive
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/Escape/ -------> Get out and return to Basic
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Now, to install the program, just enter the command, "BRUN BEAUTIFUL BOOT".
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When it's finished loading, the screen will clear, and a page of instructions
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will show up. Note that if you do not have a lowercase chip, then all that you
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will see is garbage on the screen (hence the purpose of this writeup.) Hit
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a key to get to the next screen, and then the question will be asked, "Do you
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wish to make a beautiful boot?" Hit "Y" (for yes,) and then you will get a
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little space (2 lines) to make a short message that will be displayed upon a
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disk boot. Type in your message, and hit the /Return/ key when you are fin-
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ished with your message. Then, a message will come up telling you to insert
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the target disk in drive 1 and hit any key. (Note: make sure that the disk
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that you insert is initialized--the Vtoc will be modified so as to free up the
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unused DOS sectors on the disk--this was also done so as to make a little ea-
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sier the updating of old DOSless disks to a Beautiful Boot disk.) The disk
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will be updated with Beautiful Boot, and then a last question will appear, ask-
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ing if you want to make another disk with Beautiful Boot. If you want to make
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another (which you surely will, although maybe not at this moment,) hit "Y"
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(for yes.) This will bring you back to the first instruction page.
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If you hit "N" (for no,) then you will be returned to Basic. To run Beautiful
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Boot, just boot up the newly updated disk. Then, enjoy! It all fits onto one
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track. Now, isn't that beautiful work? Now you will want to update all of
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your DOSless disks. But, that's it for us. You now know how to make up DOS-
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less disks with Beautiful Boot on it.
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-MiniAppler and Apple Bandit
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: Copyright [C] 1984 Midwest Pirates Guild (MPG,) all rights forgotten :
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: Call the best in the Midwest-> The Safehouse /612/ 724-7066 16 megabytes :
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(> Distributed by better AE lines all over the country <)
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