[Coco] CoCo OS-9, a short simple explanation

[Randy Weaver]

I heard about mshell on the cococrew podcast... they weren't sure if it was a replacement for Multiview or an enhancement of it... 

I want to try it... I have an old coco mouse with one button (not the deluxe)... do you make uses of the right click?  If so... I have an rs232 pak... perhaps I should hook up a serial mouse with 2 buttons?

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Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo OS-9, a short simple explanation

Frank, MShell is GUI based and by no means, hampered by the speed of the 6809 :-) MShell uses a 640x192 2 color (16k) graphics screen and is completely mouse and menu driven. The only reason I chose to use text listings instead of icons, is that was the major downfall of MultiVue. You not only had to "make" your own icons for evey file, you also had to create an "Aif" file to set the window environment. 90% of the people who tried it, had no clue how to do it and RS incuded no utilities to do so.
And since MShell can also read your RSDOS & PC's Dirs (via DW4) as well as your OS9 dirs, icons would have to be made for eveything. Text was easier. I could also get more listings on the screen in text than with icons.
Mshell runs in NitrOS9 on any 512k Coco 3, Vcc, Mess, and CocoFPGA. Drivewire4 optional.

Here is a (quite long) preview of MShell. It's old and MANY features have been added since I made the video:

https://youtu.be/MoOP03Fchw8

This is not running overclocked. It is running at 1.78mhz in Vcc.

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Francis Swygert <farna at att.net>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, May 17, 2016 6:47 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo OS-9, a short simple explanation

The reason some people think of it as a programming language instead of an OS is because it's command line driven. Yes, Linux can still be used from a command line -- but it typically isn't except for programming and making modifications. You can use a graphical user interface (GUI) like DeskMate with OS-9, but the 6809 really doesn't have the power for a GUI. There are some text based menu interfaces like the new M-Shell (I think that's it... and I think it's text based, haven't tried it) that work very well to make things easier though, and don't take a lot of processor power like a graphics screen does. Frank Swygert Fix-It-Frank Handyman Service 803-604-6548-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco

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