CompuServe Messages

A fellow gave me the Trantor SCSI controller that came with his MO drive. I'm going to try that with an old CDC 170. That ought to be an adventure! You mapped all your 32 bit mem for BB extended mem???? How'd you do that? Doesn't the Amiga step on it or the BB step on the Amiga? Neat trick if it works. Does that mean I could have more than 8 megs on the BB w/o physically adding to the 5 on it now? I remember seeing something (that I forgot about until just now) that did an expanded mem trick. Dunno. As for what I've tried with the mouse, well, I looked at the 2 files with a debugger on the respective sides. The MouseServ in PC/Services doesn't tell me much, but the BB's \Janus\AMOUS.COM has an interesting set of strings/data areas. Goes like this: VideoMode : $` Number : $` Columns : $` Rows : $` Char size : $` Page size : $` Sequencer : $` Misc. reg : $` CRTC reg. : $` Attr reg. : $` Graphics : $““““““““0123456789ABCDEFMonitor type : $Colour$Monochrome` $(Enhanced)` $` VGA card : $` EGA card : $` CGA card : $` MDA card : $` Hercules card : $` Hercules information unreliable for multi-mode card` $inactive` $H Kb RAM installed : $ That suggest that there's some code someplace to fill in the blanks. I'm not the hacker I used to be (Thank you, Commodore! <grin>), but I betcha there's somebody around that could get a new number plugged into the 'rows' entry. The hard part would be getting him interested. As a practical matter, I'll probably end up using the Elite Multi-function card I recently got on a UseNet deal for its mouse port. sigh -DonM – On Autopilot from 1Q1 – Chickenlips doesn't sell Amigas, we just buy them!