[Coco] Nitros9 3.2.0 6809L2 on real hardware

[David]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:25:59AM -0700, Willard Goosey wrote:
> >Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:50:21 -0500
> >From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
> >You may already know this but just because you boot to a 40 or 80 column 
> >window does not mean you can't access a vdg 32 column screen.
> 
> Assuming you have VDGint in your kernel.  And, IMHO, if you're going
> to have vdgint in your kernel, might as well have term_vdg.
> 
> I normally have two main OS-9 bootdisks, one windint only and one
> vdgint/windint for those rare times I feel like playing with DM3 or
> Carmen.

What I did was create some new vdg descriptors.  I think I had 3, and
called them v1, v2, and v3.  I could then change to one of these and run
my games.

> Also, many vdg programs blatently assume they're on /term and are
> hard-coded that way.  You can patch them, sure, but usually to another
> hard-coded window.

Of course, my method wouldn't work for these...

In regard to previous posts about using iniz w1 or iniz /w1, IIRC, I've
used it both ways.