[Coco] cowin vs cogrf question

Retro Canada retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 14:58:26 EDT 2012


Maybe another module is causing it when together. I'm using also
rbsuper, llide and dw3.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
> That's odd. I have cowin and covdg in every boot I have
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: retrocanada76 at gmail.com
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wed, Oct 17, 2012 10:18 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] cowin vs cogrf question
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> 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 :)
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> 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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