[Coco] Interbank Incident for Drivewire ?

[Aaron Wolfe]

Can you do an mdir or use some os9 utility to identify what the memory
is being allocated to?  The DW modules themselves are very small so
something must be wrong in how we're making the disk, or ? Dunno.


On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Yep, I tried it with nothing but the DW drivers. No floppies, no pipes, no printers.
> Same thing, not enough memory. All I can say is DW is eating a LOT of memory on level 1. It doesn't sound right.
>
>
> Sz 13846 - Original Tandy Level 1 Inter Bank Bootfile ... mfree = 157 total pages
> Sz 14533 - Standard Nitros9 Level 1 DW Bootfile ... mfree = 136 total pages
> Sz 12460 - Stripped Nitros9 Level 1 DW Bootfile ... mfree = 144 total pages
>
> With a smaller bootfile, I would think the stripped version would use less memory. Nitros9 is definately burning some somewhere.
>
> Personally, I like to see the DW mods added to a standard (90s patched) version of OS9 lv1 & lv2. I don't think it would be too hard to do.
>
> Bill P
>
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> Bill Pierce
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>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Fri, Nov 23, 2012 11:48 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Interbank Incident for Drivewire ?
>
>
> Rogelio Perea wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
>>
>> The Interbank Incident is proving to be difficult. It is easy to run from a
>>> hard drive on a pure MESS or VCC system or from the floppies on a MESS or
>>> VCC system.
>>> So far minimal attempts to change the boot disk to a 40-T or 80T double
>>> sided disk have not worked.
>>
>>
>> A while ago I installed the game to a single double sided disk (40T), only
>> 110+ free sectors after the original two floppies were dumped into a single
>> one. I didn't try make a boot disk out of it and usually run it booting
>> from a DP Johnson-ized OS9 Level 1 v2 boot disk - used SDSK to do a 40T
>> boot disk. The game does benefit from the improved and MUCH quieter step
>> rate and single floppy install, far more enjoyable play than the original
>> distro - next step is to install the Interban Incident on one of the flash
>> memory options available.
>>
>>
>> -- RP
>>
>
> Right. I used the method from Appendix E in the user's manual for installation
> on a hard drive but pointed to a floppy.
>
> A 40T DS floppy was formatted and the kernel and OS9Boot file was copied over to
>
> the new disk so that it was bootable. The copybank program on disk#1 was used to
>
> move all the game files from the 3 disks to the new disk.
> The new disk can be used with MESS or VCC. It does not ask how many drives you
> have when booted.
>
> A similar technique, but with Boot and CCDISK swapped for Drivewire equivalents,
>
> will not work. Such a disk will not boot.
> Also you can't take a current Level1 NitrOS-9 drivewire disk, format a new disk
> with a minimal OS9Boot file and run the game. The game reports insufficient
> memory to run with the new Drivewire Level1.
>
> RG
>
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