Add boot script and information on faster boot

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# PiStorm on Pi Boot
## Bootup script
To start PiStorm on automatically on boot, copy this file into /etc/systemd/system/ in your Pi's filesystem. Then run:
```bash
sudo systemctl enable pistorm
```
This script will start PiStorm *before* the network connections have started.
## Faster boot
The Pi does several things that aren't needed for PiStorm at bootup, the following steps will accelerate the boot time for you.
### config.txt
Edit `/boot/config.txt` and add the following lines:
```ini
# Disable the rainbow splash screen
disable_splash=1
# Set the bootloader delay to 0 seconds. The default is 1s if not specified.
boot_delay=0
# Disable Bluetooth
dtoverlay=disable-bt
```
By default there is a 1 second boot delay and initialising bluetooth takes a couple of seconds.
### cmdline.txt
Edit the `/boot/cmdline.txt` and add `quiet` near the end, as an example (do **NOT** copy/paste this line):
```
console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=5f1219ae-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes quiet rootwait
```
This shaves a little time off spitting out boot logs to the screen.
### fstab
Disable `/boot` remount on boot, this will mean you will need to do `sudo mount /boot` when you want to change files in that partition, but it shaves off half a second from boot. To do this add `noauto` to the options second for the `/boot` line, for example (do **NOT** copy/paste this line):
```
PARTUUID=5f1219ae-01 /boot vfat defaults,noauto 0 2
```
### Disable swap
If we need swap something went wrong. This shaves about another second off the boot time:
```bash
sudo systemctl disable dphys-swapfile.service
```

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[Unit]
Description=PiStorm emulator
StartLimitIntervalSec=0
[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
User=root
ExecStart=/home/pi/pistorm/emulator
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/pistorm
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target