Could the CPC have included a mouse and a GUI based OS?

[dodogildo]

However, if I understand you correctly, you are missing a feature to conveniently manage your AMSDOS games/apps/files from in a nice Desktop environment. And there I definitely agree, I would also like something like that a lot that automatically starts when I turn on the CPC.

That, I stongly agree too. For instance, C64 has a great new GUI for such tasks (WebFritzi's GUI64). Lightweight and so. I wish we had such a nice GUI as well:

https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=85868

[Gryzor]

However, if I understand you correctly, you are missing a feature to conveniently manage your AMSDOS games/apps/files from in a nice Desktop environment. And there I definitely agree, I would also like something like that a lot that automatically starts when I turn on the CPC.

That, I stongly agree too. For instance, C64 has a great new GUI for such tasks (WebFritzi's GUI64). Lightweight and so. I wish we had such a nice GUI as well:

https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=85868

So that's like a file manager with some bells&whistles? Really nice.

[Prodatron]

http://www.symbos.de/mirrors/www.clips64.de/desktop.htm

As you mentioned Clips64 as well: These mockups were inspiring me a lot, when starting SymbOS, IMHO it's still the most beautiful GUI approach for the C64s' videohardware, so I decided to mirror the old website so that it won't be forgetten. Unfortunately these screenshots were probably only mockups, and the project has never made any progress, and later they "merged" with Wings. Anyway Clips64 and Wings both required a 20MHz 16bit SuperCPU with >1MB of RAM, which is an external computer using the C64 only as a dumb terminal.

Regarding your request for a nice starter of old programs:
That is not the approach of SymbOS at all, but you can select and start hundreds of SNA snapshot files in SymbOS and launch old games very fast and comfortable.
Currently the best way for starting old games quick and comfortable probably is @abalore s Amsteam project:
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/news-events/amsteam-wip-game-streaming-service-for-the-amstrad-cpc/

[d_kef]

However, if I understand you correctly, you are missing a feature to conveniently manage your AMSDOS games/apps/files from in a nice Desktop environment. And there I definitely agree, I would also like something like that a lot that automatically starts when I turn on the CPC.

That, I stongly agree too. For instance, C64 has a great new GUI for such tasks (WebFritzi's GUI64). Lightweight and so. I wish we had such a nice GUI as well:

https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=85868

Wasn't DES doing just that?
Or do I miss something here?

d_kef

[dodogildo]

Wasn't DES doing just that?

Yeah, it looks amazing. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. 

[GUNHED]

The topic of being able to run software for the native OS is of importance, as @ZorrO mentioned.

If I would start to develop FutureOS today I would take that in bigger account.

However, using the RSX command !FDESK you can start FutureOS in a way, that the native OS, programs and data are preserved. So you can use Firmware and FutureOS and switch between them im seconds.

Just found an video about it: