Changes

The User Interface (UI) of FutureOS presents the user with three fixed sections: an icon section (upper half of screen), a file-name display and selection section window (lower half of screen) and a message line (bottom). It appears directly after booting starting FutureOS, but can also be used from by applications. The user can browse through directories of discs and hard-disc partitions. The size of the text window is fixed, so 64 different file names can be displayed at once (this equals one complete directory of a data of system formatted disc f.e.) . Instead of scrolling, you browse page by page throught the used directories. A cursor arrow mouse pointer is used to select devices, functions or files; this cursor arrow pointer can be controlled with nearly all of the pointer based HID devices (joystick, mouse, trackball, light-pen, grafpad) available for the CPC.

Applications do can call the UI as a subroutine, and the user can return to the application via the OK button. The icons are fixed, so the layout remains stable throughout its useand on every CPC using FutureOS.

Files can be viewed on-screen (scroll up and down) or printed. File headers can also be viewed. When typing a text file it is possible to set the number of columns and lines of the window the text is displayed in. File headers can also be viewed. FutureOS uses expanded but compatible file-headers, that allow a file to be up to 16 MB in length. The file-header can additionally specify the target RAM of a file. Further it can contain a file icon or a short file description.