Is there a way to force a cold boot on the ST?
The reason I ask, some games on pp's hdd game collection seem to setup the mmu so that TOS thinks there's only a meg of RAM and this persists across a reset. I wouldn't mind (that much) flipping the power switch, but that doesn't actually seem to get me a cold boot on my ST, presumably because the caps take a long time to empty or the ACSI hdd drive I have plugged in with external power ends up keeping some part of the ST warm? Completely unplugging everything and plugging it back in gets me a cold boot, but that's pretty cumbersome.
Perhaps my real question is, is it possible to reset things so that any mmu tinkering that has happened gets reset?
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Force cold boot / more thorough reset?
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stephen_usher
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Re: Force cold boot / more thorough reset?
If you're running TOS 1.04 or later then Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Del should do it.
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ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
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ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
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Cwiiis
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Re: Force cold boot / more thorough reset?
Thanks, this does the job! Only thing worth noting is that it has to be right-shift, left-shift funnily makes the combination not work at all...stephen_usher wrote: 20 Sep 2023 18:29 If you're running TOS 1.04 or later then Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Del should do it.
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