Software Agreement Introduction What's New Documentation Notes Authors - Credits Bugs Keys Special Features Plugins Future of Future O.S.

Software Agreement: We, the makers of Future O.S. do not take responsibility for any loss of data, damage, natural disasters, or anything else that may occur while or because of using Future O.S., by using Future O.S. you are then legally bound to these terms. If you do not agree to these terms, you are not permitted to use Future O.S. Introduction: Future O.S. v1.4.7 beta is an "Enhanced" version of Andreas Ess Cool Shell. Future Design has been working on this project since the begining of January 1999, Since then, the Most Powerful O.S. for the Ti-85 has come a long way! We are posting Future O.S. 1.4.7 & newer on the Internet for release to the general public, the previous 57 versions were never publically released! What's New: What's new in Future OS v1.5.2? (*)Fixed very Nasty namechanging bug. (*)integrated the about page into the shell string saved 200bytes. You can now delete xfosabot off your calc. (*)New plugin, Rom Viewer 135 bytes. What's new in Future OS v1.5.1? (*)Message appears asking which folder to move to. (*)A few minor bug fixes. (*)You can MPD with [ALPHA] in any menu. (*)APD now works in every menu. (*)Any assembly program named "xstart" will run upon execution of Future OS before the Password Protection. (Please note xstart is case sensitive.) What's new in Future OS v1.5.0? (*)Future OS can move programs to different folders by itself. (*)The Enter your name screen is now Cleaned off. (*)Plugin Menu removed (*)Any assembly program named "xstart" will run upon execution of Future OS before the Password Protection. (Please note xstart is case sensitive.) (*)Future OS now 119 bytes smaller making it a total of 2996 bytes on calc! Documentation Notes: New for this version our documentation for Future O.S. has been changed to the HTML format, and will remain in HTML format in the future. All previous versions with documentation were in plain text. All Future O.S. documentation is updated and maintained by Jon Johnson (President of Future Design). Authors - Credits: The original source was derived from Cool Shell by Andreas Ess. Our best programmer, Jon Johnson with permission took that source and worked it into the powerful interface that you may now download! We must credit Kouri who helped with a task Jon couldn't figure out. Bugs: There no known bugs at this time, if you find any please send a detail description of the bug, & how to access it to Jon Johnson, and we will start debugging immediately! Keys: Main Menu Key: Feature: [EXIT] Exit to Ti-O.S. [+] Increase Contrast 1-Step [-] Descrease Contrast 1-Step [*] QView [F1] Turn off calc, and Password Protect [F3] About Future O.S. (Credits) [Alpha] Quick Shutdown [2nd] Execute Highlighted Program [Enter] Execute Highlighted Program [PRGM] Pop-up Folder Menu [Custom] Pop-up Options Menu [STO>] Pop-up Move Program Menu   Folder Menu Key: Feature: [F1] Games Folder (12) [F2] Utils Folder (44) [F3] Other Folder (76) [F4] Stuff Folder (108) [F5] TweAk Folder (18) [EE] Hidden Folder (20) [Alpha] Quick Shutdown [M] Quick Launch Mem30 if on ti85   Option Menu Key: Feature: [F1] Change Your Name [F2] Change Your Password [F3] Turn Startup Protection ON [F4] Turn Startup Protection OFF [Alpha] Quick Shutdown   Move Program Menu Key: Feature: [F1] Move to Games folder [F2] Move to Utils folder [F3] Move to Other folder [F4] Move to Plugs folder [F5] Move to TweAk folder [EE] Move to Hidden folder [Alpha] Quick Shutdown Special Features: You may notice that Future O.S. tells you what Rom version your Ti-85 has of the following: 2.0, 3.0A, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0, 9.0, or 10.0 I have also modified the routine which tells you what type of program you have selected, instead of giving some unknown number it now gives you one of the following: "Zsh 4" = ZShell 4.0 Program, "U 1.0" = Usgard 1.0 Program, "U 1.1" = Usgard 1.1 Program, "U 1.5" = Usgard 1.5 Program, "B/W i" = 128 x 64 B/W image, "GR4 i" = 128 x 64 GR4 image, "GR8 i" = 128 x 64 GR8 image, "ZCP i" = ZCP image (screenwide) "GCP i" = GCP image (screenwide) "F Lib" = Fake Library New: I recently added the level of you battery power, this has been updated to an actual percentage of power remaining. New: The name of you current folder will now be displayed in the top, right corner of the title bar. Plugins: We have starting developing Plug-ins for Future O.S. these are simply additional programs that you can have on your ti-85 but require Future O.S. & a Standard installation of Usgard to run. Our goal with these plugins, is to give the enduser powerful utils that they can have the option of using with Future O.S. Also all plug-ins have hotkeys from Future O.S. to run from. we currently have 4 plug-ins available: xfosabot, which displays the credits screen. xfosbatt, which show the percentage of power remaing in your batteries inside the Future OS shell. xfosmem, which plugs the memory menu from being accessed. xfosstsr, which shows a list of all Terminate & Stay Resident programs installed, also allows you to uninstall all of these. Future of Future O.S.: We are by no means near the completion of this shell, we are constantly adding new features, enhancing existing ones, and optimising the way Future O.S. runs. The Next Major version should include in-shell linking. We have improved our security with a "backdoor" incase of emergency from shell lockout, this was added for your convienience, we hope to improve the security soon, with some sort of random routine that picks your Master password when Future O.S. is installed, and then it would show you the password which would be different then anyone else's. This is just a theory so don't expect it anytime soon! For those of you who fall in this trap of forgetting your password the current master password is: "FOS1.5.0" enjoy, but don't mess with others property! ©1999-2000 Future Design Documented by Jon Johnson (Pres. Future Design)