Re: ProDOS...

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

It sounds interesting... it might be fun to play with

Roy

Arkain wrote:

> Well, I could revive my old AEOS(Apple Extended OS)project and GPL it.
>
> Note: This is one of the few cases where I consider the GPL appropriate.
>
> AEOS was an idea to have a keyboard or mouse driven DHGR GUI interface with
> what amounted to cooperative multitasking. The cooperation was virtually
> ensured by requests to draw to the screen and key fetches. Screen draw
> requests were required since the running program may actually be in aux
> page2+. The only problem with this OS was that it required a 256K enhanced
> IIe or better. That memory requirement was too steep for most of the users
> that I knew so I dropped the project.
>
> Specs:
>
> GUI Design
> Cooperative multitasking
> Virtual(Swap) Memory
> ProDOS File System
> Loadable Drivers
>
> Requires-
>     IIe enhanced (or equivalent)
>     256KB RAM
>     10MB HDD
>
> Recommended-
>     1MB RAM
>     Mouse
>     20+MB HDD
>     Zip (or other) Accellerator
>     Clock card
>
> Should I revive the project? Unfortuntely I lost the original source code to
> the almost completed OS 12 years ago, but I still remember it's design quite
> well. Let me know.
>
> Arkain
>
> "Phoenyx" <quazar@dcnet2000.com> wrote in message
> 39CD94A4.2555B331@dcnet2000.com">news:39CD94A4.2555B331@dcnet2000.com...
> > As David Empson pointed out, there are a lot of problems involved with a
> > project such as this. IMHO, the best you could expect would be an OS which
> > is compatible with ProDos at the disk/file system level. Something similar
> > to Geos.
> >
> > I would enjoy working on such a system as a GPL project. I would also like
> > to see it take advantage of some features like monochrome DHR and 128k
> > memory environment, mouse etc. Possibly incorporating some limited
> > multitasking for simple features like background printing. Well, I guess
> > this sounds a lot like a GPL version of Geos after all. In this case
> > though, I think some sort of native programming system should be it's
> > first priority. Basic would be ok as long as it isn't some patches to
> > Applesoft. I feel this is one reason Geos didn't catch on as well in the
> > Apple II world. We are a bunch of hackers and a system without some means
> > of programming it, no matter how cool it is, does not generate the same
> > interests for most Apple II folks.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Thank you for your time and interest. I hope it was helpful
> > or at least interesting.
> >
> > Phoenyx,
> >
> > Apple2 user since March 1984
> >
> > Links to Phoenyx's pages:
> > preferred..... http://zip.to/Phoenyx_A2
> > alternate..... http://www.tinyangeldesigns.com/Apple2