[Coco] Installing Multi-Vue on a NitrOS9 VHD (CoCoSDC)

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Bill - just so you know… CoWin and Multi-Vue pre-installed is mandatory for the Ease of Use Project, so it should be a lot easier for people to jump in and start with once we get to an official release. (I think we have 20 alpha testers now, using the 3rd alpha release, and I have a couple of things added in alpha 4, currently in development).


L. Curtis Boyle
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> On May 4, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> Travis, do an "mdir" and check for "cowin". If you're using a standard boot from the repo, someone replaced "cowin" with "cogrf" a few years ago and "cogrf" does not support MultiVue's menu system. If you have cogrf (or covdg for that matter) instead of cowin, MultiVue will not run (as well as some other software). I have complained about this several times but it's fell on deaf ears.
> Cogrf is a simplified version of the windows driver that has only a few bare essentials, and one of things removed is the MultiVue support. Also, if you find you have "covdg", then that definitely does not support MultiVue.
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> It's things like this that helps keep OS9 from being used by non-OS9 users... perpetuating the hostility of OS9 since 1987...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Poppe <travispoppe at gmail.com>
> To: CoCo List <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Fri, May 4, 2018 9:37 am
> Subject: [Coco] Installing Multi-Vue on a NitrOS9 VHD (CoCoSDC)
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> All,I've copied the contents of the Multi-Vue floppies in their entirety to aVHD running NitrOS-9 Level II / 6309. Multi-Vue attempts to start, butnever makes it to the graphics mode.Is there a special module that needs to be loaded in order for Multi-Vue towork, or perhaps a new OS9Boot entirely? I've always gotten hung up on thispart.Thanks,-- Travis PoppeIRC: tlp on irc.freenode.net-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
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