I received a large bundle of CD images for use with my FM Towns from my friend while I was visiting the US. I burned an image of Towns OS 2.1 L51, which may be the most recent version compatible with my system. This gave me the opportunity to try out Towns OS more in-depth than I’d been able to before. Not having a hard drive is kind of limiting, but there is still much to do with it.
Unfortunately, my images are kind of blurry. Something about the way my phone and this screen jive together makes getting good shots difficult. I can either take blurry photos or photos with a lot of wavy lines. My other monitors tend to come out better.
Each screen has a brief explanation of what’s going on.
Boot screen logo Default screen after loading A drop-down menu from Towns Menu, which I gather to be the system shell. Control panel Color scheme changer Color chooser Command prompt, where I was able to change the date uhhh huhuhuhuh The CD player lets you play the CD in the background, but loading another app from the CD stops playback. Scheduler, all ready to sync to Google Calendar Finally found a place in the GUI to change the date. Compliant to 2079! Sidework makes me think there may be a way to switch between tasks, but I haven’t figured it out yet. Partition manager, but no hard drives.