Geneve Questions!

[GDMike]

If I could use the mouse...uh, well actually I'm using the keyboard mouse on my laptop, well #1, I'm outta room on my desk..with a small ass table, a laptop on that, and hidden tape/HD storage, 2 full keyboards, and somewhere there are 2 mouses..oh, one is hanging on the back of tipi(peb).. anyway, one day I'll get a bigger desk..my arrangement is pathetic..

But I do have a comfy chair ?

Edited February 12, 2021 by GDMike

[+Schmitzi]

@GDMike

 

And/or mark/tag=add single files (which are not one after the other in the shown order) with holding CTRL (german: STRG) key down.

Like in the Windows Explorer.

 

And you can combine that, means click/mark the first file in an order, then hold down SHIFT and click/mark the last file in the order,

and then mark (or unmark) one single file (in- or outside the already marked order) by holding CTRL only, and clicking/marking again.

 

So SHIFT means marking/tagging from:to  and CTRL means just a single file (or directory)

 

In the Windows Explorer you can go some step ahead (does NOT work in TI99DIR):

Mark the first file, then press/hold SHIFT and mark the last file. Now some files are marked,  one after the other.

Then go some files ahead, means do not want to mark i.e. the next 3 files (or so),

press CTRL now and mark the file of the next "area". Then press and hold CTRL+SHIFT and mark the end of this next/second "area in order".

So you are able to mark/tag i.e. files from A to B and additional, some of the files from F to G, and i.e. all the files with R.

And if you missed one single file while this artistic ride, just hold STRG and hit it

But just clicking one file without CTRL or STRG hold, removes all your marks (and marks this file instead)

 

Copy that   ?  ? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[GDMike]

I pulled 221 Cart games in which I had maybe 2 - 4 that didn't work outta that zip file.

Most work just fine.

Thx for sharing that zip file!

 

 

Edited February 12, 2021 by GDMike

[+FarmerPotato]

Question: how does the Geneve 9640 treat the area of memory from 0 to 3FF? Is it a special area logically separate from whichever page is mapped at bank 0? Or does the physical page mapped at bank 0 occupy 0000-1FFF?

 

 

 

 

[+9640News]

12 hours ago, FarmerPotato said:

Question: how does the Geneve 9640 treat the area of memory from 0 to 3FF? Is it a special area logically separate from whichever page is mapped at bank 0? Or does the physical page mapped at bank 0 occupy 0000-1FFF?

 

 

 

Physical page mapped at mapper page 0 is mapped at 0000 to 1FFF  

 

[+mizapf]

15 hours ago, FarmerPotato said:

Question: how does the Geneve 9640 treat the area of memory from 0 to 3FF? Is it a special area logically separate from whichever page is mapped at bank 0? Or does the physical page mapped at bank 0 occupy 0000-1FFF?

It is only the area F000-F0FB and FFFC-FFFF that shadows the RAM page that is mapped to F000-FFFF. There is nothing like that in the 0000-1FFF page. I guess that the 0000-03FF area is filled by MDOS when starting a process; at least the command line arguments are there. We should document that on Ninerpedia.

[+InsaneMultitasker]

To add a little more detail, the OS and each task store information in their own instance of 0000-03FF.  For the OS, this is stored in physical page 0 and for each task, this is stored in each task's logical page 0.  Certain items like the path, prompt, assign assignments, etc. are all stored in a linked list in this area.  Other system and task information, such as the interrupt and XOP vectors, are also found in this memory range.

 

I spent some time adding comments to the source files for the upcoming, eventual release but there are still some mystery addresses and undocumented usage.