oh, and I assume that left right alpha on clears the ram?

It's 2ND, not ALPHA, but yes it does.

Anyway... back to the topic... no shell suggestions?

My main “shell” that I've been using for the last several years is mainly just a combination of kbdprgms and a fairly simple TI-BASIC pop-up menu system that uses dialog boxes to configure the commands (TI-BASIC on the 68K has a function that can run strings containing TI-BASIC code in text form, which makes pure-BASIC shells on this platform a bit more useful than the ones on the Z80 calcs where the programs have to be manually edited). The drawback is that I have to add programs to the list manually, but I personally don't add new programs to my calc that often so it works fine for me.

If you don't mind using the Home Screen, another idea might be to use Complete, which adds auto-completion with pop-up menus, which makes typing out commands and folder/program names less tedious.

Quote from: qazz42 on September 12, 2010, 12:03:52 am

I still want to know what "line 1111 emulator" meant...

It's a common assembly error- I don't know what it actually means, though.

I think it's named after the 68K opcodes that start with the bits 1111. I've read that these were designed to be opcodes for a math coprocessor, but the 68K had a feature where, if no coprocessor was installed, the opcodes could instead automatically call OS functions that emulated the coprocessor in software. AMS doesn't use them for this purpose, so I think its handler simply triggers this error when such an opcode executes. (Incidentally, TIGCC/GCC4TI has an option that allows programs to use these so-called “F-line emulator” opcodes as a way to call subroutines and ROM calls using very small code, but at a sacrifice of some speed.)

Command Post Plus also has crash protection/recovery, though it's actually intended to be a development tool (it has a hex editor and some nice features that occasionally come in handy for C/ASM development).

yeah, I tried some shells out

I recommend preOS

Some were released a month or two ago, but I don't know if they do that. It would be awesome if someone wrote one. I personally disliked that. ANother thing I dislike is how slow selecting stuff is. When holding down the down arrow, for example, it takes 2-3 seconds for quick key repeat to go under effect, versus 0.4 seconds on other calcs.

Relating to scroll rate (and other things), there is AMS Extender
Maybe that has what you want?

KerNO also speeds up scroll rate (one reason why I like it), but if you're using a kernel that's obviously not an option.