[Coco] ack!

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 31 May 2013 19:52:12 L. Curtis Boyle did opine:

> Heh... "too big" of boot files was the precise reason that Alan Dekok
> did OS-9 Level 3.
 
Now, if I could just make it work.  But I think DW is stirring in both the 
scf and the rbf pots, so I've not been able to get stuff arranged to be 
compatible with the premise.

> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
> 
> On May 31, 2013, at 4:08 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> > What I would like to know is what you guys are puttinginto your boots
> > to make them "too big"? I put everything in my boot but the kitchen
> > sink and I'm currently thinking of throwing that in so the coco can
> > wash dishes while it's running... Since I've been using NitrOS-9, I
> > haven't had any problems with boot size (that I know of). I run
> > CoWin, CoVDG, MIDI, DW, EmuDsk & Becker drivers (on my emulator
> > boots), B&B dirvers, ramdisk, & more. Are your boots creating an
> > error, not booting, or just no memory when running? I do not try to
> > load ALL the window descriptors... only 7. I also do not load all the
> > DW /Nx descriptors. Only 7 of those as well with /MIDI being 8. I
> > also only load 2 VDG descriptors. One thing that's saved me some
> > memory is using Gene's "MyRam" ramdisk. It does not use or allocate
> > any memory (other than the space it resides in) until it's used then
> > only the amount requested. It can then be "turned off" (deinized) and
> > returns all memory properly. Then can be resized and used again. Nice
> > work Gene :-)
> > 
> > Here's a list of my boots
> > 
> > Emu(vcc)            Coco 3            Coco 1
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > rel                rel                   rel
> > boot            boot                krn
> > krn              krn                  krnp2
> > krnp2          krnp2              init
> > ioman         ioman             boot
> > init              init                  ioman
> > rbf              rbf                  rbf
> > rbdw3        rbdw3            rbdw3
> > dw3            dw3                dw3
> > x0                dd                dd
> > x1                x1                x1
> > x2                x2                x2
> > x3                x3                x3
> > emudsk        bbfhdisk     rb1773
> > dd                h0                d0
> > h0                h1                d1
> > rb1773        rb1773         d2
> > d0                d0                scf
> > d1                d1                vtio
> > d2                d2                cohr
> > ram              ram            term
> > r0                r0                scbbp
> > scf                scf            p
> > vito                vtio            scdwn
> > keydrv        keydrv            N
> > joydrv        joydrv            N1
> > snddrv        snddrv            N2
> > N                N                N3
> > N1                N1                N4
> > N2                N2                Midi
> > N3                N3                Pipeman
> > N4                N4                piper
> > N5                N5                Pipe
> > N6                N6                clock
> > N7                N7                clock2
> > midi                midi                sysgo
> > v1                v1
> > v2                v2
> > scdwp        scdwp
> > p                p
> > pipeman    vrn
> > piper            vi
> > pipe            fttd
> > clock            pipeman
> > clock2            piper
> > 
> >                    pipe
> >                    clock
> >                    clock2
> > 
> > As you can see.. They are not small. So far, I have no problems using
> > the C compiler, assemblers, Ultimuse3 (which uses MUCHO mem), DW4Man
> > or Sound Chaser. The Level 2 boots open with ramdisk and 3 80 col
> > text windows of which 2 usually get changed to hi-res by Ed 3.1. The
> > level 1 is in hi-res 51 col mode. I haven't done much on level 1 yet
> > but I suspect I'll be trimming that boot back for the C compiler. I
> > remember it was a memory hog in Level 1.
> > 
> > Bill Pierce
> > My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> > 
> > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> > Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
> > http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/
> > Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
> > http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> > E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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