Re: What would you want in GS/OS 7.0?

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

 dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:

>If Apple or someone were to release a GS/OS 7.0, which would be a total
>rewrite of 6, but still maintained compatibility, what would you have it
>include?

    I think seeing a System 6.1 update is more realistic than System 7.0,
considering all the work involved (not impossible mind you, years after
the Apple III had been abandoned by Apple, its users commissioned 
an independent programmer to write a new OS and they got one).

Some basic things I'd like to see...

- Finished MS-DOS FST (support for writing)
- Sticky pull-down and contextual menus (i.e. one mouse click)
- Auto-scrolling windows (i.e. selecting icons with elastic tool)
- Built-in screen saver
- Built-in menu clock
- Drag & drop launching (i.e. drag document onto application)
- View GIF, JPEG, BMP (thumb-nail only) within Finder
- Hear MIDI, WAV, AIFF, MIDIsynth within Finder
- Open SHK compressed documents within Finder

Well, rather than go on, basically lots of little things involving the 
GUI that have been present in Windows and MacOS for years.

What I'd love to see, probably more than an OS update, is 
someone release a new video game or demo on the same
level as Rastan or Mega Demo. :) It's been at least a decade
since I've seen anything new....yet people still code for other
orphaned machines to this day. Seems wasteful not seeing 
the same for the IIGS...

Mitchell Spector