[Coco] Shell and Applications in OS9Boot?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Of you can find the PIX viewer
By Kevin Darling, which runs through VDGInt, you won't need grf/ 
windint or grfdrv at all, which may help. He had 2: pix for straight  
VEF's, and WPIX for color cycling animations (I hope I am remembering  
those right). That would save you 8k from not needing grfdrv alone  
(and it is a lot faster too since it uses VDGInt's direct screen  
writes for hires).

Sent from my iPhone
L. Curtis Boyle


On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:

> L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>> Ah. Didn't realize that. What exactly are you calling from the  
>> shell script? A Basic09 program? A picture viewing program directly?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> L. Curtis Boyle
>>
>>
>
> I'm just running a picture viewer.  The smallest VEF viewers I can  
> find are viewvef and vefio (with winfo).  Both are a little under  
> 5K.  I wouldn't gain anything by merging the viewer with the shell,  
> because both together would still top 8K and still take two 8K  
> blocks.  With my current boot, I have 24K when I run mfree, which is  
> using 8K, since it isn't merged with the shell either -- I would  
> ordinarily do that, but this is a special-purpose thing.  So that  
> means that I really have 32K free when the system boots.  These  
> graphics screens are 32K.  All I need is to find a way to free up  
> one more 8K block -- unless I can find a way to display the picture  
> on the terminal's window so I don't have to allocate more memory for  
> the graphics display...
>
> JCE
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