[Coco] Nitros9 3.2.0 6809L2 on real hardware

[Boisy Pitre]

It looks like the consensus is that NitrOS-9 should boot in an 80x24 
window.  I tend to agree, as NitrOS-9 users are the more serious CoCo 
users and have an RGB monitor anyway that can handle the resolution.

So as of the 3.2.1 release, NitrOS-9 Level 2 will boot into an 80x24 
window in RGB mode.

As for VDG, here's an excerpt from a post that I made on the NitrOS-9 
developers list:

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Here's how I propose re-architecturing the CoCo 3 modules related to 
CC3IO:

- GrfInt - handles 40/80 col text and graphics escape code processing, 
and the SS.AScrn, SS.FScrn, etc. hi-res calls.
- WindInt (optional module) - handles all window related system calls 
per Multi-Vue
- VDGInt - handles 32x16 screens.

Either GrfInt or VDGInt would be required depending on which one term 
needed.  WindInt would be optional.

So CC3IO would link to either GrfInt or VDGInt depending upon what the 
window descriptor called for, and would also try to link to WindInt at 
init time.

Thus, if I wanted a bootfile that supported hi-res screen calls, and 
NOT handle Multi-Vue functionality, I would only need GrfInt.

On Dec 17, 2003, at 10:28 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:

> At 09:45 AM 12/17/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>
>
> There are a number of OS-9 apps that will run only on a VDG window.  
> Some, such as games, run even faster when on VGD.  I have even found a 
> couple of apps that run better on the vanilla shell as opposed to 
> Shell+, e.g., TSWord.  If you're gonna still run the CoCo under OS-9, 
> you gotta keep VDG windows around.
>
> Definately.  My old NitrOS-9 boot disk goes right into 80x24 mode but 
> you can still open a 32x16 window.  I remember it not being very easy 
> to configure things this way.  It should be standard to go into a more 
> modern video mode instead of staying in the past.  That's just my 
> opinion, so don't sue me.
>
> I think Boisy has done an unbelievable job with the new NitrOS-9 
> efforts.  What would be even better is to visually showing that the L2 
> version has evolved for the CoCo 3.  A simple standard 80x24 mode 
> would be very nice.
>
>
> Roger Taylor
>
>
>
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