3]     The following article is from the October 1987 JUMPDISK.

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3]IGNITION! Booting to a Basic Program
Staff Notes -- Idea by Royann Webb
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     You can create a boot disk that takes you from the Workbench prompt
directly into a running Basic program -- automatically.
     All credit for this discovery goes to Royan Webb of Watertown, WI, who
says she discovered the method by chance while working with the JUMPDISK
word processor for the blind, EARTYPE.
     It's a matter of changing the startup-sequence on a copy of Workbench.
     The method also works as a direct command from the CLI.
     You will need the 1.2 Enhancer package -- both the Workbench 1.2 disk
and the Extras disk with Amiga Basic 1.2 on it.

3]BY THE NUMBERS
1]     1. Make a copy of Workbench 1.2.
     2. Reboot using the Workbench copy (CTRL-A-A).
     3. Go to the CLI.
     4. Type
        delete demos system utilities all       (and press Return)
     5. When the deletions are complete, type
        ed s:startup-sequence                   (and press Return)
        When the startup-sequence file appears, delete the last two lines,
        which read:
        LoadWB
        endcli > nil:
     6. As the new last line in this file, type
        amigabasic ignition       (and do NOT press Return)
     7. Press the ESC key and in answer to the asterisk prompt that appears
        at southwest screen, type an x and press Return. This saves the
        new startup-sequence and returns to the CLI.
     8. Back in the CLI, type
        copy extras:amigabasic to "workbench 1.2:"   (and press Return)
        On a single-drive system, you'll have to swap the EXTRAS and
        WORKBENCH copy disks until loading is complete. On a two-drive
        system, put EXTRAS in one drive, the copy of Workbench 1.2 in
        another, for faster results.
     9. Still in the CLI, type
        amigabasic      (and press Return)
    10. When Amiga Basic 1.2 has loaded and the LIST window shows, type this
        brief program in it:

        RUN "test"

    11. On the left of the screen save the program by typing:
        SAVE "ignition"     (and press Return)
    12. Still at left of the screen, type
        NEW      (and press Return)
    13. Type
        LIST     (and press Return)
    14. Click the mouse in the LIST window and type this program:

        CLS: CLEAR
        PRINT "The test has been met."
        END

    15. Save the program as "TEST" by typing at screen left
        SAVE "test"     (and pressing Return)

     To test whether you've done everything correctly, at this point reboot
the system with a CTRL-A-A   (the CTRL key and the two red A keys pressed
simultaneously). The new bootable disk should start up, load Basic, run the
IGNITION program and then run the TEST program.
     In practical use:
     1. Kill the TEST program from the disk.
     2. Make multiple archive copies of the new IGNITION boot disk.
     3. On a given IGNITION disk, change the IGNITION program to run the
specific program you wish to automatically boot, and also save that specific
program onto the disk.
     4. You might also consider editing the startup-sequence to include an
ECHO statement that tells what's happening:
        echo "Hi, Maisie, the Payroll Program is now loading."

3]A CLI METHOD
1]     With Workbench 1.2 and Amiga Basic 1.2, you can use a similar method
with a CLI command. For example, you boot with a normal Workbench 1.2 disk
and at the appearance of the copyright material press CTRL and D keys
simultaneously, which takes you to the CLI. There, type
extras:amigabasic j:j      (and press Return)
     You will be prompted to insert the EXTRAS disk, then the J: (this issue
of Jumpdisk) disk, and the result will be that JUMPDISK starts running as
usual without any icon clicking. The one catch is that you cannot return
to a normal Workbench screen for icon clicking. The earlier CTRL-D ended the
startup-sequence before Workbench was loaded.
     But this aspect is only a sidelight to the main topic.

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