[Coco] cowin vs cogrf question

Wed Oct 17 17:24:53 EDT 2012

shouldn't the mouse be driven by the joydrv_6551m ? I don't have one....yet!

Need to find one to buy as well as a high-res joystick adapter.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
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> Ok, I switched a boot on a VHD from Cowin to CoGrf. I've tried several programs and everything seemed fine. I now have one question. Does it support the mouse? I ran "Ed' and Ed is mouse driven. The mouse didn't activate. How do I turn the mouse back on or is that a part of Cowin?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wed, Oct 17, 2012 4:49 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] cowin vs cogrf question
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> I do it. I write on my /IH drive. But you need to use os9gen with -S
> option, otherwise you are going to have a Disk Id Change error.
>
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> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 17 October 2012 16:37:58 Gene Heskett did opine:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 17 October 2012 15:19:23 Retro Canada did opine:
>>> > 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.
>>>
>>> A PS of sorts, I just rebuilt it without CoWin.  Boots just fine. AND
>>> smap is a heck of a lot happier, from 4k free to 9k free, 36 'pages'
>>> now.  Maybe I can format a floppy?  ;-)
>>>
>> :(  No.  The HD boot I was using for these builds left me with 39 pages, 9k
>> according to smap.  I installed this on on the hd, boots fine, but that 36
>> pages is not enough to allow format to run w/o crashing.  This recovery
>> could be fun, I don't know that I have a floppy boot that is hd aware.
>> OTOH. there is nothing to stop me from writing my own mb script for /sh
>> that skips the format in favor of just deleting the file os9boot and making
>> a new one with os9gen.
>>
>>> In fact, since I have /sh pointing at the hard drive boot location, and
>>> can change that to an adjacent vdisk with dmode stp=82 rather easily
>>> just for testing, I am tempted to replace the boottracks
>>> boot_rb1778_6ms module with the boot_tc3 module in mb.dw3 and fire that
>>> script off to do a mb on /d0 and back it up to /sh.  Then note for
>>> recovery and add 1260 decimal sectors to DD.BT in LSN0 of /dd and
>>> reboot.  If that works, then do it again to the default /sh, restore
>>> DD.BT and laugh all the way to the fridge. ;-)  We'll see. I don't care
>>> for painting myself into a corner though.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Gene
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