[Coco] cowin vs cogrf question

[Retro Canada]

I recently made a lot of level 2 boots for superIDE. It was on trial
and error as usual.

With CoGRF on level 2 you get all W to W15 windows 80/40 columns but
you can't run multivue.

To get the V1 to V4 32 columns you need CoVDG.

To run multivue you need CoWIN. But CoWIN cannot coexists with CoVDG
or you get a memory overflow.

Right now I my CF image I has CoGRF and CoVDG and all the drivers
needed for sierra games, don't remember their names. I don't and don't
want to use multivue.

That is my very short experience in making level2 boots :)


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> I'm tapped out on the level3 stuff ATM, I think we have the equ of a
> bootlist order bug someplace as I cannot even make a bootable disk from
> that bootlist with all the dw and level3 stuff commented out.  The best I
> can do is a failed after i2xtoJ, the J is telling me that VTIO did find the
> mouse, but there should have been a C in front of it, but it obviously
> can't find the Term sitting within $200 bytes of VTIO in the file.
>
> So, in the interests of reclaiming a bit of sysram, I am thinking to get
> rid of cowin in favor of cogrf.
>
> Does this also mean the only screens I can get will be from the 4 V1-V4
> descriptors?  It looks as if all of them use VTIO, so what does the routing
> in case it can't find cowin?
>
> Cheers, Gene
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