[Coco] ack!
Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Fri May 31 22:48:08 EDT 2013
for me, with superide rbsuper + llide will take alone 2KB add to this i0,
i1 and ih
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
> What I would like to know is what you guys are puttinginto your boots to
> make them "too big"?
> I put everything in my boot but the kitchen sink and I'm currently
> thinking of throwing that in so the coco can wash dishes while it's
> running...
> Since I've been using NitrOS-9, I haven't had any problems with boot size
> (that I know of). I run CoWin, CoVDG, MIDI, DW, EmuDsk & Becker drivers (on
> my emulator boots), B&B dirvers, ramdisk, & more.
> Are your boots creating an error, not booting, or just no memory when
> running?
> I do not try to load ALL the window descriptors... only 7. I also do not
> load all the DW /Nx descriptors. Only 7 of those as well with /MIDI being
> 8. I also only load 2 VDG descriptors.
> One thing that's saved me some memory is using Gene's "MyRam" ramdisk. It
> does not use or allocate any memory (other than the space it resides in)
> until it's used then only the amount requested. It can then be "turned off"
> (deinized) and returns all memory properly. Then can be resized and used
> again. Nice work Gene :-)
>
> Here's a list of my boots
>
> Emu(vcc) Coco 3 Coco 1
> -----------------------------------------------------
> rel rel rel
> boot boot krn
> krn krn krnp2
> krnp2 krnp2 init
> ioman ioman boot
> init init ioman
> rbf rbf rbf
> rbdw3 rbdw3 rbdw3
> dw3 dw3 dw3
> x0 dd dd
> x1 x1 x1
> x2 x2 x2
> x3 x3 x3
> emudsk bbfhdisk rb1773
> dd h0 d0
> h0 h1 d1
> rb1773 rb1773 d2
> d0 d0 scf
> d1 d1 vtio
> d2 d2 cohr
> ram ram term
> r0 r0 scbbp
> scf scf p
> vito vtio scdwn
> keydrv keydrv N
> joydrv joydrv N1
> snddrv snddrv N2
> N N N3
> N1 N1 N4
> N2 N2 Midi
> N3 N3 Pipeman
> N4 N4 piper
> N5 N5 Pipe
> N6 N6 clock
> N7 N7 clock2
> midi midi sysgo
> v1 v1
> v2 v2
> scdwp scdwp
> p p
> pipeman vrn
> piper vi
> pipe fttd
> clock pipeman
> clock2 piper
> pipe
> clock
> clock2
>
> As you can see.. They are not small. So far, I have no problems using the
> C compiler, assemblers, Ultimuse3 (which uses MUCHO mem), DW4Man or Sound
> Chaser.
> The Level 2 boots open with ramdisk and 3 80 col text windows of which 2
> usually get changed to hi-res by Ed 3.1. The level 1 is in hi-res 51 col
> mode. I haven't done much on level 1 yet but I suspect I'll be trimming
> that boot back for the C compiler. I remember it was a memory hog in Level
> 1.
>
> Bill Pierce
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>
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