[Coco] Supercomm fails to load on NitrOS9 lvl 2 on my CoCo 3 with 128K, and a couple of other questions?

[Dave Philipsen]

It's been over 25 years since I wrote Supercomm but I can assure you 
it's not a memory hog.  The program itself is less than 16k and as I 
recall it does not request any more than 8k of memory from the system 
unless you manually request more memory.  What does 'mfree' show as free 
memory before you start Supercomm?


Dave Philipsen


On 11/1/2015 1:43 AM, Ryan J R Pritchard via Coco wrote:
> Hello all,
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> It seems perhaps supercomm has higher memory requirements than my CoCo 3 with 128K, running on NitrOS9 LvL 2 (via DriveWire) can provide.  Does anyone have confirmation on the memory requirements for supercomm?
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> Also trying to boot the NitrOS9 LvL 3 nos96809l3v030300coco3_dw.dsk comes to a NITROS9 BOOT - FAILED message.  Would this likely be related to having only 128K?
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> Lastly what are the dw_headless images for?  I am having difficulties finding any Wiki references.  Based on my best guess it would be to simply use a terminal program on the computer running the DW server to access the CoCo remotely.  I can’t seem to figure out the telnet into the CoCo using DW 4.
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> Regards,
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> Ryan Pritchard
> F.E.A.B.L.E. - Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies
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