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

[L. Curtis Boyle]

My guess is to free up system RAM. CoWin takes about 5k more than CoGrf, because it doesn’t involve any of the high level menu handling, just the graphics primitives.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On May 4, 2018, at 10:34 AM, Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Hi, was this filed in the bug tracker or discussed on the NitrOS-9
> development site www.nitros9.org ?
> 
> Anyone who can chime in with the reason cowin was replaced by cogrf in
> the boot images?
> 
> Regards,
> Tormod
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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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