As a long-time "iGO fan," I always find it curious and often quite amusing to read along with these discussions. 😏
Take the "SYS editor," for instance, a tool that has never actually been necessary; any standard text editor works just fine, provided you know which variables and values ​​actually need to be in there.
Whether it’s just 5 lines or as was the case back in the iGO 8.x days more than 30 lines, the key factors for the iGO startup process (up until the first user input) have always been the device itself, specifically its CPU, ROM, and storage medium, which dictate the initialization time. I’ve been working with iGO since the very early days and have tested it on a wide variety of devices.
P.S. I’ve long considered the "SYS editor" to be nonsense; it’s been entirely unnecessary ever since iGO Primo packages started coming with a `SYS.txt` file, a file that, in most cases, I’ve ended up significantly trimming down...