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Flashing Startup Screen

    04-Nov-91 02:19:24
Fm: David Czaya 73445,407
To: Sylvain Duford 76056,1655
Sylvain, Here is the contents of a file I have on the initialization colors… A M I G A ' S I N I T I A L I Z A T I O N C O L O R S ————————————————————— Dark gray Ok Hardware Light gray Ok Software Red Bad ROM Checksum Green Bad RAM Blue Bad Custom Chips Yellow Exception A M I G A ' S I N I T I A L I Z A T I O N ———————————————- Clear Chips Disable DMA and Interrupts Clear the Screen Check the Hardware Pass or fail the Hardware to the Screen Checksum the ROMs Pass or fail the ROMs to the Screen System setup Check the for RAM at $C00000 Move SYS_BASE to $C00000 if it exists RAM Test Pass or fail the RAM to the Screen Check the Software Pass or fail the Software to the Screen Set up the RAM Link the Libraries Find External RAM and link it to the list Set up Interrupts and DMA Start default Task Check for 68010, 68020, and 68881 Check for an Exception System Reset