Re: happy Birthday....

2000-09-27 Thread David L
It was i... and if i get chance, may see if there's any chance of doing it... - Original Message - From: Simon Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 11:01 PM Subject: RE: happy Birthday > Tim P wrote: > > So, after the spectacular 10th Birthday celebrations

Re: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Aley Keprt
Si, you can simply wait until keyboard port is read. Then you can simulate F9. If you do this twice (maybe more), it should be enough to let it autoboot, without changing ROM code. After these two (or maybe more, but I hope it will be constant times) readings from that i/o port, you don't need to s

RE: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: > you can simply wait until keyboard port is read. Then you can simulate F9. That's how I did it :-) > If you do this twice (maybe more), it should be enough to let it autoboot, That was the plan, tho it seemed to require a couple of hundred to do it, which seemed strange. I'

Re: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Aley Keprt
> Aley Keprt wrote: > > you can simply wait until keyboard port is read. Then you can simulate F9. > > That's how I did it :-) > > > > If you do this twice (maybe more), it should be enough to let it autoboot, > > That was the plan, tho it seemed to require a couple of hundred to do it, > which s

RE: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: > If you autoboot non-bootable disk, you simply get "no dos". > So what? Just for neatness really - if it knows it's not bootable then there's no point in trying. I have CD-ROM as my first boot choice in the BIOS on my PC. If there's a regular data CD in it it'll continue on to

Re: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Aley Keprt
> Aley Keprt wrote: > > If you autoboot non-bootable disk, you simply get "no dos". > > So what? > > Just for neatness really - if it knows it's not bootable then there's no > point in trying. I think we are talking about nothing. (How do you Engishs call this?) We can continue with talking abou

RE: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: > I think we are talking about nothing. > (How do you Engishs call this?) > We can continue with talking about how orange is orange, as Al Bundy > did in that famous tv programme. Well, things haven't been that off-topic for a while. I accidentally started an argument on IRC the

Re: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Aley Keprt
> Aley Keprt wrote: > > I think we are talking about nothing. > > (How do you Engishs call this?) > > We can continue with talking about how orange is orange, as Al Bundy > > did in that famous tv programme. > > Well, things haven't been that off-topic for a while. I accidentally > started an ar