Survey posted 2009-07-15 04:31 by Astrid.

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Survey idea courtesy of Jaeil (see link above).

I had to use some discretion to keep the list small, so feel free to use the "moron" option if I made a mistake and left something out that I should have included.

ZShell? ;-)

Really, though, I don't actively use Z80 calculators anymore, unfortunately. The last one I used was the TI-86. I've never owned any of the TI-83/83+/84+ series since the 68K calcs suited my needs better.

Although I don't use my 83 very often, I have to say that, from a programmer's standpoint, Venus is the best "shell" (for a sufficiently loose definition of the word) for any of the Z80 calculators.

Venus is fast, it's small, and it doesn't get in your way. Unlike most shells for the 73/82/83/83+, Venus relocates programs without corrupting the variable structure - so Venus programs can safely use all the functions of the OS. It's a shame that more shells weren't designed this way - not to mention the 83 and 83+ OSes themselves! Unfortunately, we're now more-or-less stuck with the existing conventions.

Voted that I do not use the kind of calculators; never bought one, not sure if I ever will.

Your profile shows that you own an 83+, and you have made a bunch of programs for it, yet you have never owned or used one?

More accurately: I never installed any of those operating systems on my calculator.
I still have (and use) my 83+; I have installed only the TI released operating systems on my calculator.

All of the above are shells, not operating systems (although some of the authors chose to append "OS" to the shell name).

No big surprise which one I voted for. :D

I figured you would have voted for MirageOS. LOL

I have a TI-86, & the closest thing to a shell I ever had on it was a TI-BASIC program I wrote. (My TI-83+ has MirageOS on it, but I never used it much, & now the link port is nearly broken.)

I choose none of the above (I picked the "left out option" option). I find using a "shell" my calculator annoying. I have Mirage OS, but only because most assembly games here require it.

Oops, typo: thats "using a 'shell' ON my calculator"

It's really too bad that I never finished CrunchyOS.

MirageOS forever!

I used Ion way back when but switched to MirageOS pretty early on.

I voted for CrunchyOS. But then the site wanted account verification, so I'm not sure if it counted. I had too many RAM clears with Mirage to like it enough.

Sorry for double post. I forgot to say that whenever I try to install Ion, it doesn't work. Incompatibility or something like that.

Since version 1.2, I don't believe I've ever seen a crash where Mirage was at fault. Your difficulty was almost certainly a buggy program, which would probably crash, or at least cause memory corruption, regardless of the shell you used.

You can try voting again—if it already counted, you'll simply get an error message saying so.

You left out TSE!

I'M SORRY.

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