Forces 32-bit addressing on at boot regardless of setting in PRAM.

If you want to use lots of memory on a classic Mac, you need to turn
on 32-bit addressing (if the machine supports it). However, this
setting is stored in the battery-backed xPRAM. A lot of us run our old
Macs without PRAM batteries, simply in the interests of not finding
battery leakage all over the place one morning.

That means that, normally, you have to turn it on, manually, every
time you start using the machine. This gets tiresome fast.

This extension solves that. Put it early in your boot sequence (by
putting a few spaces before the name). It will, at load-time, check
whether 32-bit addressing is enabled in the PRAM; if it is, it will
just display its icon and continue. Otherwise, it will flip the bits
that enable 32-bit addressing (see this page for more details) and
start booting all over again.

Note that it doesn't check whether the Mac can actually do 32-bit
addressing before fiddling; so please make sure it can. That said, it
will behave properly with MODE32 if you rely on that for 32-bit
addressing on Macs without 32-bit clean ROMs.

 * First download is a raw disk image, suitable for use with a Floppy
   Emu or dd-ing onto a real floppy, containing just the extension.
 * Second download is a stuffit file containing the extension and its
   source code.

Github repo: <http://github.com/cheesestraws/Force32>

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC

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