What is it for?

The tool fixes a small issue that affects PAL Amigas running an Kickstart version prior to Kickstart 3.0.

Background

Back in the days of floppy discs I did not boot into the Workbench most of the time but used the default CLI instead. After all I mostly started up my dev environment and that did not needed a Workbench at all. 

However on older Kickstarts (prior to version 3) the default CLI was using the NTSC resolution (i.e. 200 pixel height). As a PAL user I had to manually increase the size to full PAL resolution every single time. 

This annoyed me so much that I wrote this tiny (less then a disc sector) utility that you can call directly from the startup-sequence to automate this process.

So If you still use real hardware with floppy discs and an older Kickstart, this may be still useful to you.

Since the executable is only 180 bytes in size, it fits into a single floppy disc sector, so it does not take ages to load and it does not cut into your floppy disc capacity much.

This is how your CLI on a PAL Amiga will look like without Large-CLI:

And this is how it will look like when you add the tool to your startup-sequence:

Written back in the days of Kickstart 1.2 around 1987 I guess...

How to use it

Simply copy the executable to your floppy into the 'C' directory  (i.e. DF0:C) and then add a call to it from your startup-sequence in directory 's'. That's it, no more manual resize required.

Kickstart 3.0+

Kickstart 3.0 fixed the issue and will use the correct PAL CLI size by default so there is no need to use this tool anymore.

Source code

Full assembly source code available here:

https://github.com/LutzGrosshennig/amiga-large-cli