[Coco] Boot flexibility in OS-9

alsplace at pobox.com alsplace at pobox.com
Wed Sep 29 18:22:18 EDT 2004


Griz,

EthaWin was the TUI (text user interface) and I plan to completely 
rewrite it using all the "mad coding skillz" I have acquired over the 
past 10 years.

MultiBoot's menu, which ran from the RS-DOS side, was not configurable 
as far as I know, BUT it would be easy to add (since it already changed 
the screen colors to white on black).  I don't recall if Terry (who 
wrote the RS-DOS side of things) switched it into a 40 column screen, 
or if that was just the 32 column screen with colors changed.  If it 
WAS already made to be 40 cols, then altering to 80 should be easy.

I certainly would like to bring all the old Sub-Etha stuff up to date, 
as much as I can.  You know, things like adding the "missing" right 
file browsing panel to Towel (it was planned to have one but I never 
added it) so you could copy back and forth easier without typing in 
path names and such.

We shall see!

     -- Allen




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