Re: Eagle (Was: GEMDOS from VBL)

[stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz (Petr Stehlik)]

On Sat, 20 Jun 1998 13:45:11 -0400, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

MR> > Eagle (is it the name of 030 accelerator for Falcon?)
MR>
MR>The Eagle was the very first TT clone, produced by GE Soft.

Yes, sorry. I wanted to say "Mighty Sonic". So FX-Falcon, Falcon with
MagnumRAM, Mighty Sonic and AfterBurner040 are those upgrades that add
FastRAM which TOS 4.04 does not know about. This will have to be handled
by MiNT (just like it is handled by Linux already).

MR> >PS>How hard would be to let MiNT start as the first program in AUTO folder?
MR> >PS>We would have to adapt some device drivers and HSMODEM - what else?
MR>
MR>I always wondered about that.  WHY is MiNT started last, not first?
MR>Perhaps Eric R. Smith can answer this one?

Actually Eric already answered it some months back. He said everything
but device drivers should/could be started after MiNT. But has anyone
tried it already? To put NVDI and all these AES/VDI patches after MiNT?

BTW, MiNT used to be designed to run automatically all programs that
were placed after MiNT in AUTO folder. This feature had been lost in some
versions between 1.0x and 1.12 and that's why probably people got to put
everything _before_ MiNT, otherwise it would not start (they obviously
were bored to put every program into MiNT.CNF).

Now, when the feature is back, it should be easy to place MiNT.PRG
freely and find all those programs that are not able to be started after
MiNT. HSMODEM is the first example.

Petr
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