[comp.sys.atari.st] Dead On Boot Up

SOCS18@vaxb.york.ac.UK (Vision Newspapers) (03/05/90)

The ST will crash if you hold down mouse buttons while booting because the
mode of the IKBD chip is read from the same port that the buttons are
attached to at reset. With both buttons released, this mode is zero, as it
should be. The ROM in the IKBD can't cope with any other status, so when the
buttons are down, it's goodbye keyboard controller...

Regards,
Mat.

Mathew Lodge
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