At 11:32 PM 2/9/97, Nigel Pearson wrote:
>> i would like to add in some code to check if i am in b&w
>> before i boot, ive tried to boot with thousands of colors on far too many
>> times now
>
>        Booter 1.9.5 has a helpful little button under the "Booting ..."
>menu item (in the Options menu) for doing just what you want. Click the
>"Boot in B/W" box, and save your options and preferences. Every time you
>boot NetBSD from now on, the Booter program will switch to B&W before
>executing the kernel. When you go back to MacOs, the colour depth will be
>whatever it was before you loaded the Booter program.
>
>
>        Coming soon* will be a similar series of boxes for selecting the
>monitor resolution when loading the kernel, for those of us with multi-
>sync monitors. After that will, hopefully, be a fix for the PRAM problem
>(the one which forces you to zap the PRAM after fiddling with the MacOs
> AppleTalk/Network settings, so that the kernel doesn't hang).

With the intvid support coming on so strong this is less important than it
used to be, but MacBSD has supported larger-than-640X480 resolution on the
old toby frame buffer cards just about forever by inheriting the changes
made by MaxApplZoom under MacOS.  It even worked with dt.  It is *awfully*
nice to be able to run a 700 X 512 instead of the resolution Apple
provided.

When you add these features please make sure you don't step on the ability
to just leave things alone.  It works (or worked anyway) for some of us.

>
>* As soon as I get the Booter to Link properly under Symantec Think C v7.
>
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