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 Message 2143 
 Danny Bee to Felice Murolo 
 Re: Amiga assembly, bootblock developing 
 19 Oct 23 12:07:02 
 
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 FM> ok, but this is the standard way to launch any program on the floppy
 FM> disk.

To achieve what you showed in the screenshots you don't need anything else. 

 FM> 
 FM> Instead, I wanted to modify the bootblock by inserting a routine inside
 FM> that shows a text like "(c) by Felice Murolo - Press the left mouse
 FM> button" and waits for the left button to be pressed.
 FM> 
 FM> Maybe then enriching this thing with a gradient background color (I've
 FM> already managed to do this, playing with the copper registers).
 FM> 

That's why I asked if you only want to boot from a system or bypass that and
boot as NonDOS disk, which is also possible.

For the second option you need to read:

https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Amiga_Floppy_Boot_Process_and_Physical_Layout

as a starter

-db

... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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