[Coco] Games that don't fit on floppies (was Super IDE vs. Drive Pak)

[gene heskett]

On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:16:35 AM Mark Marlette did opine:

> Gene,
> 
> Just giving you a hard time....I am quite aware of MyRAM. :)
> 
> I do a lot of builds in NOS9 and you can't just throw everything in. Had
> a recent build that for the first time in a long time, had to reduce,
> look at the bootlist and make just a good sweep of the system modules.
> In the end, it was a good exercise. Good to clean house now and then.
> 
> The advantages to the 3.2.x is light years beyond the 1.16 days. Great,
> but we must move forward!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> Cloud-9
> http://www.cloud9tech.com

Open can of worms, Mark.

I am not 100% convinced the forward is the direction NOS9 has moved. When 
SCF things were split up, no provision was made for some of the code and 
hardware I had been using for a decade or more.  For instance, my 13" amber 
screen monitor was no longer usable as a second, independently useful 
monitor, all that code I had managed to condense into cc3io was just 
summarily swept aside.  Much the same for a 100% functional seriel mouse, 
one where all 3 buttons could be used in Iconedt for instance.  Sure, I re-
wrote the joydrv_6551L.sb, so it now handles both M$ and Logitec mice 
transparently so we only need one driver, with all the bits located in the 
packet as the L51.defs says they go, but it is only partially usable with 
multivue.  Lots of little used stuff just went away at some point so 
silently I was not aware of them until stuff didn't work with what should 
have been an equivalent bootfile.

There is one other tender point about booting from my TC^3 I have PM'd you 
about at least once with no reply.  So I fixed it my way, by going back to 
a quite old os9 distribution I still have on my hard drive here, getting 
that boot_tc3 module, dissing it, and making it work similarly to what the 
superdriver docs says it should, so I have been booting from my tc^3 for 
about a year now when I want to.  Up till then, the only boot that ever 
worked was the very stripped one you put on there when I sent it to you in 
2002.  It had not enough in it to do more than give a shell prompt.
 
I had lots of fun impressing the winderz frogs when I showed them a 
trash-80 color computer with 2 working monitors, that brought a big grin to 
my face every time I showed it off, a coco could do things their 3 kilobuck 
windows box couldn't do.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "gene heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 9:14:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Games that don't fit on floppies (was Super IDE
> vs.	Drive Pak)
> 
> On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:07:26 AM Mark Marlette did opine:
> > Gene,
> > 
> > The bandwidth of our devices are of DRAM/RAM disk speeds. The TC^3 is
> > twice as fast as the SuperIDE(S-IDE) but the S-IDE is still really
> > fast.
> > 
> > John Linville could speak to this more as his video player is based
> > upon the critical bandwidth of the player on the S-IDE.
> > 
> > You where the author of MyRAM?
> 
> Yes.  Guilty as charged.  :)  Never could understand the reticence of
> others to use it.  But today, so much system ram has disappeared since
> the NOS9 v.1.16 days that it can't always be used. IIRC it needs about
> 450 bytes.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Cheers, Gene


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