Commander X16

Hi Folks,

Just received a dev board for helping out with the project a while back. Just had a quick 5 minutes with it and its looking great so far.

two quick noob questions I'm sure.

1) is there a menu / navigator program to make moving through the folders and things quick and easy?
2) the space bar on the keyboard for me has to be pressed in the centre, if you are off,it just leans over. is this normal operation or is there a trick / fix you folks have figured out already?

Hi.

I don't believe there is file manager at the moment. I know that David suggested that one should be made for the CX16 and I am in very early stages of starting development of a Commander X16 File Navigator.
I have no experience with the keyboard so I can not help with any insights.

Commander Commander!

I don't have the keyboard, but just based on how keyboards work in general, it sounds like the stabilizer bar in the space bar has come loose.

To fix it, you would need to carefully pull the space bar off and as you put it back on, you'd need to clip the stabilizer bar back into place.

...but I don't know what the key caps and the switches are like, so I can't provide any specific help, unfortunately.

Yeah, my first thought too. however the space bar was loose in the box and there doesnt seem to be a stabilizer bar or springs for it. checked in the box and poly bag in case they'd escaped but nothing. Not a deal breaker obviously, just wanted to check if others had seen this or had a fix. I'm sure I can come up with something to help its travel.

prefim wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 10:52 am Hi Folks,

Just received a dev board for helping out with the project a while back. Just had a quick 5 minutes with it and its looking great so far.

two quick noob questions I'm sure.

1) is there a menu / navigator program to make moving through the folders and things quick and easy?
2) the space bar on the keyboard for me has to be pressed in the centre, if you are off,it just leans over. is this normal operation or is there a trick / fix you folks have figured out already?

Heh. Yeah, I think pretty much everyone is working on a "menu / navigator" program of some flavor in their "spare time..." The clunkiness of CBM DOS pretty much forces that reality all by itself.

My take on the subject is to have a "command shell" that uses unix like commands (ls, cd, etc.) that exist as small programs separate from the shell itself (So new ones could be added easily, without modifying the original program.) There are other ways to solve this, but that's my strategy.

We'll see over time what gets released, is used, and drives the future.