kdavies@dalcsug.UUCP (04/18/87)
Hi,
A friend of mine has a Coco3 and OS9 level 2 (I think it's L II).
Anyway, he tried using Dynacalc (Tandy version) under the 80 col
screen mode, but it doesn't work.
Now, I have used it on an older Coco with an 80 col. card, and
it works fine.
Anyone have any ideas as to what is wrong ?
Is a new version of Dynacalc needed for Level II ??
Should I stop asking these questions and let someone answer ? :-)
thanks for any help.
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---------------------------------------------------------------jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) (04/20/87)
In article <66@dalcsug.UUCP> kdavies@dalcsug.UUCP writes: >Hi, > A friend of mine has a Coco3 and OS9 level 2 (I think it's L II). > Anyway, he tried using Dynacalc (Tandy version) under the 80 col > screen mode, but it doesn't work. > Now, I have used it on an older Coco with an 80 col. card, and > it works fine. > > Anyone have any ideas as to what is wrong ? > Is a new version of Dynacalc needed for Level II ?? I've had no problems with Dynacalc with either 40 or 80 column screens. Where did he put his terminal file? Mine is in CMDS. (I apologize for the white space. but the new version of news is to blame. ) Cheers! -- Jim O. -- Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880 ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura Byte Information eXchange: jimomura
knudsen@ihwpt.ATT.COM (mike knudsen) (04/21/87)
In article <1736@lsuc.UUCP>, jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes: > In article <66@dalcsug.UUCP> kdavies@dalcsug.UUCP writes: > >Hi, > > A friend of mine has a Coco3 and OS9 level 2 (I think it's L II). > > Anyway, he tried using Dynacalc (Tandy version) under the 80 col > > screen mode, but it doesn't work. > > > Now, I have used it on an older Coco with an 80 col. card, and > > it works fine. > > > > Anyone have any ideas as to what is wrong ? > > Is a new version of Dynacalc needed for Level II ?? The 80-column window screens supplied with Level 2 are not as well-equipped with cursor control codes as were either the hardware 80-column cards (PBJ WordPak, etc) and their drivers under Level 1, or some of the software 80-column screens for the Coco 3 that were passed around for Level 1. In particular, the extended set of cursor controls used by the Dynastar editor (from Frank Hogg) and implemented in the WordPak driver are not recognized by Level 2's windows. So Dynastar won't work unless you buy Hogg's upgrade, which I did. A friend reports successfully porting one of those Coco3 Level 1 80-column drivers to Level 2 and getting good Dynastar results, though. I think he got his driver from Compuserve; the one I had from this Usenet won't hack those codes either. If you can find such a driver and get it up under Level 2 (and watch out, the window system is NOT bug-free), your old DynaCalc (and Dynastar) should work. Maybe someone could write a translator program that you would PIPE between Dyna-whatever and the Tandy-supplied windows to convert the extended PBJ control code set to the Tandy official set. The original PBJ OS9 docs list both code sets. Any takers? As good as Level 2 for Coco 3 is, it appears the process of hackers replacing drivers and descriptors is already well under way. Oh well, that's why OS9 was created modular in the first place ... mike k -- Mike J Knudsen ...ihnp4!ihwpt!knudsen Bell Labs(AT&T) Delphi: RAGTIMER CIS: <memory failure, too many digits> " ~E(x):[is_lunch(x) && cost(x)==0] "