[Coco] cowin vs cogrf question

[Retro Canada]

Well not in my build using superIDE drivers. Didn't try diskette or
something else. Whenever I used coWin and coVDG it didn't boot.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 October 2012 14:44:43 Retro Canada did opine:
>
>> 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.
>>
> Humm, they can't co-exist?  Maybe thats where some of my memory is going.
>
> {t2|08}/DD/NITROS9/dw3install/6309L2/MODULES/SCF:mdir
>
>    Module Directory at 14:34:01
> REL         Boot        Krn         KrnP2       KrnP3       IOMan
> Init        RBF         rbdw3       dw3         X0          X1
> RBSuper     lltc3       DD          S1          SH          rb1773
> D0          D1          D2          SCF         VTIO        KeyDrv
> SndDrv      JoyDrv      CoWin       CoVDG       sc6551      Term
> W           W1          W2          W3          W4          W7
> scdwn       N           N1          N2          N3          N4
> N5          N6          N7          MIDI        t2          scdwp
> p           PipeMan     Piper       Pipe        Clock       Clock2
> GrfDrv      Shell       Date        DeIniz      Echo        Iniz
> Link        Load        Save        Unlink      inetd       MDir
>
> And this is from the /t2 screen of my default dw enabled boot floppy.
>
>> 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.
>
> Neither do I.  Does CoGRF support the mouse?  If not, then we also need a
> dummy placeholder joydrv because VTIO won't boot without finding it.  That
> would save about 3 pages of memory right there, freeing that db9 on my
> stacked rs232 pack for other serial usages, becoming a /t3 port. :)
>> That is my very short experience in making level2 boots :)
>>
> :)
>
> Cheers, Gene
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