[Coco] The Beta Test release of MShell

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@ Bill Noble
Bill, I got to thinking... yeah, I know.... that's dangerous. But you're running MShell in Mess. I don't know about Mess on mac, but in windows, it's a little sluggish on screen display unless you overclock it slightly.
Vcc is just the opposite as it's a little faster than a real Coco. It was the very reason I quit using Mess after Vcc 1.4.2 was released. I hated the keyboard response and the screen refresh. I was always ahead of it. I eventually figured out how to overclock it, but by then I was satisfied with Vcc and never went back. Bot have their pros and cons, but to me Vcc is just a better emulator for my uses. I wish there was a mac version... 

The reason I mention this is that I've been sittiing here working on Robert's problem, running and rerunning MShell on the real Coco 3 (6809) and to me, it's refreshes are faster than it is when running "Ed 3.1" full screen text editor (my editor of choice), which also uses the 640x192 hi-res screen and MShell definitely beats it on refresh speed.

Yes, the cursor movement line to line has a slight delay. Part of that is the keyboard debounce, delay & keyboard getting ahead of the actual display of the keystroke as the whole reverse cursor thing takes a little bit of processing time in the loop. Chalk that up to the "type ahead" buffer in OS9. I see this happening in anything with a scrolling cursor. Setting your keyboard repeat delay can help it some. Shorter delay (or no delay/no repeat) would make the cursor more responsive. I might add that to the options... to set keyboard debounce and delay. I had it in my DW4Man program (MShell's predecessor), but didn't add it to the MShell interface. I know it helped DW4Man and Sound Chaser manage the cursor a little better.

Just random thoughts....

 

Bill Pierce
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