[Coco] Um3.init help needed

Sun Dec 11 01:04:09 EST 2011

On Sunday, December 11, 2011 12:57:00 AM Bill Pierce did opine:

> ok... got you now.
> Here's what I get on the VCC emulator running at 512k, 6309, nitros9
> 239. before running umuse3: mfree - blks=30 size=384
> umuse3 running with large score loaded: mfree - blks=13 size 152
> 
Which is more free above than I have now, IF I didn't have 2 megs.
Besides, I was going by smap, which reports free system memory, which is 5k 
before running umuse3.

With 39111's ubox3 running and a score playing:

{t2|07}/DD/NITROS9/dw3install/6309L2/SCRIPTS:mfree

 Blk Begin   End   Blks  Size
 --- ------ ------ ---- ------
  17  2E000  7DFFF   28   320k
  40  80000 1FBFFF   BE  1520k
                   ==== ======
            Total:   E6  1840k

So main memory is definitely not a problem, but system ram probably is, 
again with 39111's ubox3 running:
{t2|07}/DD/NITROS9/dw3install/6309L2/SCRIPTS:smap

    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
 #  = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
 0  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U
 1  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U
 2  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
 3  _ U U U U U _ U U U U U U U _ U
 4  U U _ U U U U U U U U U U U U U
 5  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U
 6  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U
 7  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U
 8  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U
 9  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U
 A  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U
 B  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U
 C  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U
 D  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U
 E  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U
 F  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U .

 Number of Free Pages:  20
   RAM Free in KBytes:   5

Which is exactly the same as it would be if I hadn't started ubox3 ???

There is another message enroute.  I'll update that one when it comes back.
Probably tomorrow, its getting sleepy out. ;)

> you know your system and the requirements... would this be too much
> memory for it to run?
> 
> Bill Pierce
> ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sat, Dec 10, 2011 9:47 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Um3.init help needed
> 
> On Saturday, December 10, 2011 09:21:22 PM Bill Pierce did opine:
> > And here I was thinking you were refering to Ultimuse3 instead of
> > Ubox3
> 
>  or I would have simply said it's "key command" oriented :-o Yep... no
>  mice crawling in ubox3... An exellent player by the way. I used to use
>  it to show of all my ume music unless I was really showing off to a
>  musician friend then I'd use Ultimuse3 so I'd have all the staves on
>  the screen and look all professional and stuff LMAO
> 
>  Bill Pierce
>  ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> 
> orry 'bout that, I should have been clearer.  I don't seem to be able to
> un Ultimuse3, I assume its out of memory system memory.  I don't believe
> I an make a boot disk using drivewire, that leaves enough memory to run
> ltimuse3, I would have to leave sacia, t2.dd and probably 2 or 3 other
> hings which would severely cripple it for any other use than running
> muse3 with drivewire.  Probably not impossible to do, so I may try. I
> have spent some time playing with the mouse while studying my current
> ersion of l51.defs, and I do not see any obvious mistakes.
> The location of the mouse packet I am referring to can be easily seen as
> ts defined as being at $10EC in system ram, by vtiodefs_cc3, so if dmem
> nd dump are loaded into memory, a loop can be constructed to give an
> about nce per second update printout on screen, of the packet buffers
> contents. ccording to that, my joydrv_6551L.sb is doing it right.
> What puzzles me, is that the SS.Mouse call returns a $3C long buffer
> filled ith every conceivable item about the mouse, but so far I have
> failed to ind where in the SS.Mouse call, the translation between the 8
> byte wide uffer specified in vtiodefs_cc3, using Bruce Isteads byline
> as the riginator, and the $3C sized buffer that is returned by SS.Mouse
> and can e accessed via varname,x in subsequent programs that use a
> mouse. I did look at the src for SS.Mouse in 2008 when the question
> came up as I as writing joydrv_6551L.asm, me asking me WTH? but that
> code and the $3C uffers contents aren't even playing the same game. let
> alone in the same all park.  :(
> I guess that is the price I pay for trying to fix Tandy's crap so it
> ctually works!
> Cheers, Gene
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