[Coco] cowin vs cogrf question

[Retro Canada]

Told you CoWin is evil ;)

You have rbSuper too. So maybe and this is just a guess the cowin +
covdg + rbsuper is a no go. Must be verified in a disk only or a dw
distro.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 October 2012 15:19:23 Retro Canada did opine:
>
>> Well not in my build using superIDE drivers. Didn't try diskette or
>> something else. Whenever I used coWin and coVDG it didn't boot.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 17 October 2012 14:44:43 Retro Canada did opine:
>> >> I recently made a lot of level 2 boots for superIDE. It was on trial
>> >> and error as usual.
>> >>
>> >> With CoGRF on level 2 you get all W to W15 windows 80/40 columns but
>> >> you can't run multivue.
>> >>
>> >> To get the V1 to V4 32 columns you need CoVDG.
>> >>
>> >> To run multivue you need CoWIN. But CoWIN cannot coexists with CoVDG
>> >> or you get a memory overflow.
>> >
>> > Humm, they can't co-exist?  Maybe thats where some of my memory is
>> > going.
>> >
>> > {t2|08}/DD/NITROS9/dw3install/6309L2/MODULES/SCF:mdir
>> >
>> >    Module Directory at 14:34:01
>> >
>> > REL         Boot        Krn         KrnP2       KrnP3       IOMan
>> > Init        RBF         rbdw3       dw3         X0          X1
>> > RBSuper     lltc3       DD          S1          SH          rb1773
>> > D0          D1          D2          SCF         VTIO        KeyDrv
>> > SndDrv      JoyDrv      CoWin       CoVDG       sc6551      Term
>> > W           W1          W2          W3          W4          W7
>> > scdwn       N           N1          N2          N3          N4
>> > N5          N6          N7          MIDI        t2          scdwp
>> > p           PipeMan     Piper       Pipe        Clock       Clock2
>> > GrfDrv      Shell       Date        DeIniz      Echo        Iniz
>> > Link        Load        Save        Unlink      inetd       MDir
>> >
>> > And this is from the /t2 screen of my default dw enabled boot floppy.
>
> A PS of sorts, I just rebuilt it without CoWin.  Boots just fine. AND smap
> is a heck of a lot happier, from 4k free to 9k free, 36 'pages' now.  Maybe
> I can format a floppy?  ;-)
>
> In fact, since I have /sh pointing at the hard drive boot location, and can
> change that to an adjacent vdisk with dmode stp=82 rather easily just for
> testing, I am tempted to replace the boottracks boot_rb1778_6ms module with
> the boot_tc3 module in mb.dw3 and fire that script off to do a mb on /d0
> and back it up to /sh.  Then note for recovery and add 1260 decimal sectors
> to DD.BT in LSN0 of /dd and reboot.  If that works, then do it again to the
> default /sh, restore DD.BT and laugh all the way to the fridge. ;-)  We'll
> see. I don't care for painting myself into a corner though.
>
> Cheers, Gene
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