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LOS feature ideas?

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andrew:
Assuming LOS development ever gets to a place where new features can be added, it would be interesting to think about useful improvements that could be made to the Office System. We have a thread for potential Lisa hardware projects, so this seems logical.

Now if there's actually a way to do this aside from copying the files from the original disks, I suppose I'll look like an idiot for starting the thread this way, but...

One of my biggest gripes is tools ought to have the ability to generate fresh, "default" stationery pads in case you delete all of yours. The desktop manager should likewise have the ability to generate an empty folders pad. The ability to create new directories shouldn't be a deletable feature, and if you want to remove the ability to make a certain type of file, that should be resolved by removing the tool, not the pad.

The simplest way to do this might be from a menu command in each tool file? And one in the desktop manager?

stepleton:
Just for grins, I'd like a version of LOS 3 that can run on the Lisa 1. There seem to be Twiggy drivers in the source tree, so it might be possible?

AlexTheCat123:

--- Quote from: stepleton on July 05, 2025, 05:11:35 am ---Just for grins, I'd like a version of LOS 3 that can run on the Lisa 1. There seem to be Twiggy drivers in the source tree, so it might be possible?

--- End quote ---

I didn't look into this much because I don't have a Lisa 1, but I think we're just one file short. We've got everything to build the Twiggy bootloader (system.bt_Twig) and build the OS itself (SYSTEM.OS) with Twiggy support, but we're missing what I believe is supposed to be an assembly source file for the Twiggy driver (system.cd_Twiggy).

pl212:
Since there are DB-25 LocalTalk connector kits available (including one from Apple itself for use on the XL), I wonder how hard it would it would be to create a de minimus AppleTalk stack? Just putting out a node name, nothing complicated like printing...

sigma7:
Seeing no obvious way to terminate a Workshop Exec script via Command-. or mouse down or some such thing, I speculate there would be some utility (also for LOS) to having a privileged driver that can do things like Peek and Poke upon request.

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