[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
> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
>
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>
>
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