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A2620 question

    05-Jan-92 10:02:31
Sb: #18722-A2620 question
Fm: Peter Smithem 71001,3663
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To get the boot device selection menu you have to hold down both buttons much longer than you'd expect to for processor selection (it appears that you have to hold them until the boot ROMs have checked all the boot devices). Would have been nice if the upgrade documented the changes, wouldn't it? NOTE: one of the useful things you can do with the boot menu is use it to allow some older games to come up correctly (ones that don't seem to like sharing the computer with your hard drives or second floppy disk). Try setting 68000 mode, then quickly hold both buttons until the device selection menu comes up, pick advanced options and disable everything but DF0, then continue the boot with the game disk installed in DF0. Works with a couple of the games I have. Peter