[Coco] The Beta Test release of MShell

Bill Pierce ooogalapasooo at aol.com
Sun May 15 18:36:07 EDT 2016


David, sorry, I didn't notice the "software hires" in his question. I was half asleep when I read it.
Personally, I think it would be fairly easy to make a version of joydrv for the software hires code. I've looked at the original joydrv and Nick's (actually Robert's) hires code and I feel it could be implemented.
I would give it a shot, but I have too much going on right now and don't have much time for Coco stuff. All my projects are on hold for a bit until things get back to normal (if there is such a thing).
As for MShell supporting it, in MShell, it would be automatic if that's the driver you were using. That's the beauty of OS9. But in reallity, There's no benifit in MShell for any hires mouse, software or hardware, as MShell's mouse is just selecting 8x8 blocks at the least (text character areas) and not pixel by pixel. If I ever get time to work on the graphics editor module again, the hires code would be useful.

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, May 15, 2016 2:20 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] The Beta Test release of MShell

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>wrote:> I'm not sure how Gary implemented the joystick routines. If he emulated> the coco joysticks so that RSDOS games can be played unmodified, then the> OS9 mouse/Joystick should "Just Work". If it takes modification for RSDOS> games as well, then the OS9 driver would also have to be modified (which> should not be too big of a task).>​The thing is Travis was asking about the Hi-Res code that was released toeveryone not long ago that does not require the Hi-Res joystick adapter toget the Hi-Res positioning.That was the reason I stated that code would have to be put into its ownversion of Joydrv for NitrOS-9.​> As a sidenote, MShell if fully functional straight out of the box with> keyboard only as well. All the keycodes (and directions) are in the> included text file when you download MShell. MShell has been tested on the> CocoFPGA at 25mhz and was reported to work fine. I hope to (maybe) get a> CocoFPGA soon, and when I do, I will be glad to help get the drivers and> all straightened out.>>>>>>> Bill Pierce> "Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way to> slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull>>>> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page> Global Moderator for TRS-80/Tandy Color Computer Forums> http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/>> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----> From: David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>> Sent: Sat, May 14, 2016 10:02 pm> Subject: Re: [Coco] The Beta Test release of MShell>> On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Travis Poppe <travispoppe at gmail.com>> wrote:> Curious if the new software hi-res joystick code might ever be>> incorporated with MShell, or OS-9 in general? Maybe this is something> that> could be turned into a module that introduces software hi-res for> all> existing NitrOS-9 applications or something?>​Travis, a new NitrOS-9 module> would need to be used with the updated codeto do this.  MShell should be> using normal OS-9 calls for it'smouse/joystick input routines.​>> I have no> idea what the technical details are like, but that would be> pretty neat.>>> Best regards,> --> Travis Poppe> IRC: tlp on irc.freenode.net>> --> Coco> mailing list> Coco at maltedmedia.com>> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>-- Coco mailing listCoco> @maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>> --> Coco mailing list> Coco at maltedmedia.com> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco


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