[Coco] The Beta Test release of MShell

[Bob Devries]

I can't understand why the hi-res code was REMOVED from Nitros9. It 
always worked well before?

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia


On 2016-05-16 4:20 AM, David Ladd wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
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>> I'm not sure how Gary implemented the joystick routines. If he emulated
>> the coco joysticks so that RSDOS games can be played unmodified, then the
>> OS9 mouse/Joystick should "Just Work". If it takes modification for RSDOS
>> games as well, then the OS9 driver would also have to be modified (which
>> should not be too big of a task).
>>
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> ​The thing is Travis was asking about the Hi-Res code that was released to
> everyone not long ago that does not require the Hi-Res joystick adapter to
> get the Hi-Res positioning.
>
> That was the reason I stated that code would have to be put into its own
> version of Joydrv for NitrOS-9.​
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>> As a sidenote, MShell if fully functional straight out of the box with
>> keyboard only as well. All the keycodes (and directions) are in the
>> included text file when you download MShell. MShell has been tested on the
>> CocoFPGA at 25mhz and was reported to work fine. I hope to (maybe) get a
>> CocoFPGA soon, and when I do, I will be glad to help get the drivers and
>> all straightened out.
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>> Bill Pierce
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com>
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Sat, May 14, 2016 10:02 pm
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] The Beta Test release of MShell
>>
>> On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Travis Poppe <travispoppe at gmail.com>
>> wrote:> Curious if the new software hi-res joystick code might ever be>
>> incorporated with MShell, or OS-9 in general? Maybe this is something> that
>> could be turned into a module that introduces software hi-res for> all
>> existing NitrOS-9 applications or something?>​Travis, a new NitrOS-9 module
>> would need to be used with the updated codeto do this.  MShell should be
>> using normal OS-9 calls for it'smouse/joystick input routines.​>> I have no
>> idea what the technical details are like, but that would be> pretty neat.>>
>> Best regards,> --> Travis Poppe> IRC: tlp on irc.freenode.net>> --> Coco
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