Re: Simple Menu Program ?

["Payton Byrd" <plbyrd@bellsouth.no.spam.net>]

"Steve ][" <sc-ii@hotmail.com> wrote in message 1sdq03trcf07m4u1qi775v2b0cp86g8at5@4ax.com">news:1sdq03trcf07m4u1qi775v2b0cp86g8at5@4ax.com...
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> My IIGS boots from a CF drive into GS/OS 6. Instead of the Finder, I'd
> like to boot into a quick-n-dirty menu program. Something with large
> (tiled?) icons and text descriptions, the icons/buttons could be
> mouse-clicked or keyboard-selected. The IIGS display is currently a
> 27" TV connected via a VOC, so easy readibility and use is a must. I
> vaugely remember something like this, (maybe from Econ Technologies?),
> and I'd like to implement it so my kids can get into the paint
> programs and educational stuff - some apps are executable and some are
> 800k disk images.
> 
> Thanks for any thoughts. I'm not against writing something if I have
> to...
>

Interesting that you would ask this.  I'm in the same boat with my //e and have been giving serious thought to writing a generic menu program in C using CC65 and porting it to C128, C64, C= Plus/4 and Atari 800 since the interesting bits (I/O, Graphics) are done in drivers for each platform.  I've actually been thinking of opening a project on Source Forge for this and if others are willing to participate then I'll get the ball rolling.