In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes <SNIP> >"If a file ROM1, ROM2, ROM3, or ROM4...exists in root directory of >RomDisq, then this will be initialised prior to F1/F2. This file must >be either a bootable ROM, or a RESPR driver file, otherwise the >RomDisq may cause the QL to lock up (this would require a TF Services >rescue!)." > >Well worth repeating that here, not sure how many would have cottoned >on to using that to ensure that the SuperHermes extensions get >initialised before a boot program has been run. Although the risk of a >system lockup by a bad call to machine code before bootup might put >some off. But, a handy little hint that, Sir TF! > I just have to pop up here. Tony may dispute this but this was the original genesis of the ROMDisq. Soon after the superHermes was introduced I was at an Eindhoven meeting with both Tony Tebby and Tony Firshman. I was talking to Tony about the keyboard extensions and I suggested that the only thing wrong with superHermes was that you had to load the extensions before it would let you use the keyboard. He then said that he wanted to have the extensions in the firmware but there was not room so suggested a ROM. He then said that people wanted to configure the extensions and have different languages etc. so I said that, since the Miracle hard drive system could read and write via the ROM port why not use flash memory - his eyes lit up and he said 'I think we have a new product here' and he then went into a huddle with Tony Tebby about it. He came back with something far better than I had envisioned but that is the way of things. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030 fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk
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