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  1. If there would be CX77 support via mouse (like in Atari800 with the "-mouse touch" option) I likely will be tempted to buy one... (or more as presents...) (That would mean you could use a mouse as paddle controller too...)
  2. Could someone try this on "THE400 Mini" and post the results here?
  3. My experiences with (at least) transparent PLA are not that convincing to get a really "clear" part. Just a small proposal: Design the frame/top edges for print with the ability to glue in the top covering, made of a matching piece of acrylic glass...
  4. Nah - we need a killer app like "xphoon"...
  5. It's not only about performance but also development time. Products like NVDI only had a chance, while the original VDI was already slow. But it was good enough to ship a product. Putting a further burden on the processor with proportional fonts while increasing the development time (coping with them in the applications (resource editors, desk, tools)) made no sense from the management standpoint. It also explains the price tag difference between the Macs and Ataris. Having a usable graphical user interface already made a difference big enough to tickle the desire to upgrade to those machines. PCs are even a different story while they offer very fast hardware text modes (contrary to the Atari 16/32 bit line)... ...and there were quite many window libraries/interfaces for applications for those modes. Users wanted those interfaces but not necessarily proportional fonts.
  6. Benefits are often seen only in regard to ease of implementation, CPU friendliness , same indentation, ASCII-art - so for most developers the usability aspect is surprising.
  7. Interestingly there are not many screens shots in the web. (And I won't fire up anything here to make own ones.) Most things are configurable. While the system support dropped, I even had the impression that one of the main tasks for the users was to tweak the appearance of the desk/GUI as there was a lot of offerings - contrary to productivity applications... 😉
  8. And just a side note: From the usability stand point, equidistant fonts can be beneficial for the usage. Humans can fetch words then better as a "picture" and operate with them faster while e.g. selecting an entry out of a menu. Regarding monochrome GUIs with limited area, I find many of the "Palm Pilot" applications quite usable while looking neat:
  9. Not sure about "MiNT", but the multi tasking OS "MagiC" supported proportional fonts for all GUI elements: File mangers like "Jinnee" offered a lot of options for the display/arrangement of files. (...like some file selector, e.g. "Freedom", where I was part of the development. 😁)
  10. Yes, that sounds feasible. Using SDL you could even go later for support of the graphics commands or sound...
  11. @dmsc once had this plan, with "Fast Basic" as outcome.
  12. If you like to have a challenge, what about natively executing (Turbo-)Basic in a console window? Of course supporting all hardware bells and whistles is likely unsupported (and USR/6502 emulation too), but it would be nice to have for e.g. data transformation tools or prototypes the possibility to just run the BASIC tokens natively (without emulation) very fast in a standard shell...
  13. ...so no need to grab those words out of the language bag?
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