Flashing Startup Screen
04-Nov-91 02:19:24
Sb: #15976-Flashing Startup Screen
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
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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
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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