MC

Norton Commander clone for the MSX

Description

This is a new Norton Commander clone for the MSX.

Well in fact it's a GNU Midnight Commander clone, which is itself a NC clone too.

Features

  • Developed 100% in assembly
  • Rich colorful text mode interface
  • Object-oriented interface with pull-down menus, windows, dialogs, buttons and text-boxes
  • Mouse support for point and click
  • IBM PC-like cursor emulation
  • Mapper usage. There is no limit on the number of files per folder
  • Double buffered screen, no artifacts when refreshing
  • Integrated shell with fork/join process up to 124 characters of command line
  • MSX standard

Requirements

  • MSX2
  • MSXDOS2
  • 256K Mapper (it needs 64K of free RAM on top of 64K of DOS)
  • Mouse (optional)

Current available features

  • Basic navigation
  • Prompt shell
  • Execute programs with ENTER or double click
  • Multiple selection (SELECT, +, - *)
  • Recursive delete with progression bar (*)
  • User Menu (MC.MNU) for custom commands

(*) Progression bars are visible only in multiple selection only. It counts the number of selected items instead of number of files inside each folder.

Some instructions

  • To access the pull-down menu from keyboard press F9
  • Swap panes: TAB
  • Page Up/Down: Ctrl + Up / Down key
  • To select: SELECT
  • Select all: +
  • Unselect all: -
  • Invert selection: *
  • To execute: press enter over one item or double click
  • For the prompt shell: just type the command and press enter. you can edit the command line using cursor keys or mouse click

Don't forget to set alias in your autoexec.bat for file extensions like:

ALIAS .BAS = "BASIC " ALIAS .ROM = "ROMLOAD

In this way you can run those files with just the enter or mouse click.

The current version has been patched by KdL to fix detection of NEXTOR version 2.0 and higher.

Files
Package
Individual files
Default install directory
A:\MC
Build files
Build script
mkdir -p package/
unzip mc.zip
mv MC.COM package/
mv MC.HLP package/
mv MC.MNU package/
mv MC.TXT package/
  • 1.1.05-1 2020-04-17
    • First release
Details
Category
Files
Author
Retro Canada (and patched by KdL)
Packager
Carles Amigó (fr3nd)
License
 Unknown
Url
 https://sites.google.com/site/msxengine/the-msx-commander
Install instructions
hub install MC