[Coco] new version: DriveWire 4.3.0

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Tue Oct 30 09:32:45 EDT 2012


On Tuesday 30 October 2012 08:52:30 Aaron Wolfe did opine:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 October 2012 02:58:18 David Ladd did opine:
> >> I just went to the link and tried downloading it and it completed
> >> fine.  So might have been a temporary outage maybe?
> > 
> > Must have been, I got it just now on the first click.  And I have it
> > running, including the z windows.
> > 
> > However, the Z stuffs do not scroll well bidirectionally for use with
> > tsedit/vi/vim, which uses a somewhat split screen mode when in edit,
> > and when out, won't scroll all the way to either the bottom or the
> > top of a file.
> > 
> > Has anyone found a stable editor that does work with the z windows?
> 
> I used sled for testing, it seemed fine (if a bit garish looking).  If
> you can send me a .dsk with the editor(s) you want to use, I'll try to
> fix the scrolling.  Anything that doesn't work identically to a 'real'
> OS9 window is a bug.  There are many.
>
I'll send it privately.  Can these z windows go any higher than 80x24?  The 
fonts are I assume the coco fonts scaled by integer math, and garish seems 
an apt description.  I'm spoiled by this 1680x1250 screen. :)

Thanks Aaron.

> -Aaron
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