Internet boot disk for A1200

[AndyFC]

Hi Retroninja,

Another direction would be to have a menu option at boot, off the CF. Is there a 'Choose your boot config' menu app out there?

It's been 20+ yrs since I played with the startup scripts so bare with me if there are big obvious answers. Is it possible to have a startup script that has a wait function and 'read an input or continue on'? Something (logically) like the semi-BASIC below

print "Would you like to Game, WB, or Internet?"
wait 5 secs
if G goto game-startup
if W goto wb-startup
if I goto internet-startup
else goto wb-startup

Based on my resent experiments I'd recommend GetMouseinput and ButtonMenu for this.
https://www.futaura.co.uk/amiga/
http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/ButtonMenu_123
https://aminet.net/package/util/boot/GetMouseInput

It can be configured so that a GUI selector appears when you hold down a mouse button on boot. The options can be configured to run different scripts which effectively mean different startup sequences - it depends how early in your main SS you call it.

Here the part of my main SS which uses GetMouseInput to detect whether left or right (or neither) mouse button is pressed. If nothing is pressed it carries on as normal, if left is pressed it executes a bunch of commands and then the maxmem-sequence script. If right is pressed it calls Bootmenu-Sequence which is where ButtonMenu is then called.

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C:GetMouseInput LOCAL

IF $MouseInput EQ 1
  Unset MouseInput

  C:SetPatch QUIET
  C:Assign >NIL: ENV: RAM:
  C:Assign >NIL: T: RAM:
  C:Assign >NIL: Genetics: system:games/g/geneticspecies
  C:Execute S:Maxmem-Sequence
  EndCLI >NIL:
EndIF

IF $MouseInput EQ 2
  Unset MouseInput
  C:Execute S:Bootmenu-Sequence
  EndCLI >NIL:
EndIF

Unset MouseInput
This is all built on the foundations of what I've learnt from examining the configuration of ClassicWB.