[Coco] deskmate help

Roger Taylor taylor at newfoal.com
Sun Jul 24 21:16:38 EDT 2011


At 07:46 PM 7/24/2011, you wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 04:16:20PM -0400, Richard Hawk wrote:
> > if i boot up into nitros9_dw3, can i replace the disk with 
> deskmate3 and CHD
> > /DD and then type CHX /dd/cmds
>
>The simple answer is: Nope, you need a bootable image with coVDG (the
>new name for VDGint) and term_vdg.  The nitros9_dw3 distro disk won't
>work, it doesn't have the CoVDG driver.
>
>If there are drivewire .dsk's of the vdg games (Microscopic mission,
>Carmen, Rescue on Fractalus, Koronis Rift, King's Quest), you could
>probably boot one of them, then chd and chx to DM3 and that should work.
>
>A more complicated answer:  DM3 can be patched to use a different window
>than /term.  See the MVue_DM3.lzh file on rtsi.  It still requires the
>CoVDG driver, though.
>
>I'm not sure if the "simple" CoVDG driver will work for DM3 or if you
>have to use the full size CoVDG.  Anyone?
>
>Willard
>--

What I always wanted to see for the Desk-Mate programs was a way to 
include other apps.  All these years and all we got was the few 
included apps.  The ones included were nice but too low-res for serious use.


-- 
~ Roger Taylor




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