Subject: Re: GRiDPad 1910


Date: 95-05-17 15:55:14 EDT


From: tamarand@cats.ucsc.edu


To: pdcchrisd@aol.com





Well, it's actually not all that difficult.


Step one is deciding on a transport medium. If you have a dock,


well, I'm fuckin' amazed, and that's good for you if you can find it


on 720k floppies. The second and third methods are laplink and interlink


respectively. If your machine is one of those that had msdos interlink


in "rom" then you can use IT to transfer the software.





So first you install GEOS on a desktop machine, and give the same answers


for the system questions as you would for the GRiDPad except for display-


answer that one correctly for the current machine.





Then, after installing geos, and verifying that ir runs properly, run


the install program again and tell it you want a single file. Extract the


file "LOADERCG.EXE". This is the loader program for CGA displays. The


gridpad display is an extended cga (which there IS a driver for.)





Next, transfer GEOS to the grid, make the appropriate changes to config.sys,


autoexec.bat, and then this change to c:\geopubl\geos.ini (or whatever


your geos.ini file is stashed in...)





Change the display driver to "ATT6300.GEO" and the Description to something


like "GRiDPad 640x400 Mono" Which is unimportant but cute.





Now rename loader.exe o loadervg.exe and rename loadercg.exe to loader.exe.


Your installation is now complete.





PS For the Mouse selection, you will have to change this also, which I


forgot.


After copying Geos to the grid and before running it, change the mouse driver


to "absgen.geo" which is described as "Absolute Relative Digitizer" or


something


like that.





If you get Geos to tell you how to hide the mouse pointer, let me know.





Oh, by the way, you'll need to load the mouse driver "penmouse.com" which


I Can send to you if you need it. This also disables the on-screen keyboard.


I suggest you replace command.com with 4DOS as it will allow you to remap the


function keys to batch files that, for example, run the mouse driver and


thren


geos, or run the onscreen keyboard.





Just a thought.





Also, look into the programs "mark" and "rel" should be available on simtel


that remove TSRs from memory. Just the thing for nuking the mouse driver if


you need to.