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BrandonFun500 Progress
Today I took the latest code, added the sidebar back, added a new log-in system, cut RAM usage by 2/3rds, and changed the no-skin look! I have a lot of work left though.		2008-07-216:30 PM
rCXRe:Fun500 Progress
I'm just curious, but why did you choose the name Fun500 for you gui?		2008-07-2312:05 AM
ToddRe:Fun500 Progress
Yeah I'm curious too.		2008-07-2312:22 AM
BrandonRe:Fun500 Progress
Well obviously I suck at choosing names. I used this free host called expage and it was simple. All the good names where taken and I was surprised when "Fun500" wich to me seemed easy to remember wasn't taken! I took it. Then when I needed a name for my GUI I couldn't think of anything so Fun500 it was.		2008-07-238:00 AM
ToddRe:Fun500 Progress
Oh yeah I remember you telling me about your Expage site one time.		2008-07-2311:27 AM
BrandonRe:Fun500 Progress
DAMN GOOD NEWS!!! Okay so I made a simple FB app to tell me the free RAM on my computer. It says 254. My system has 256, so 2MB is used by the DMPI and other FreeBASIC/DOS stuff. Then I added that code to the Fun500 task manager. I ran it in dos and I get 250. That means that Fun500 Hawkeye in pure MS-DOS uses 6MB At boot with one app! I opened 20 scripts (the current max (Its a constant, so I could easily change it, but I figure 20 is good)), and The ram is only upto 8MB!!! I have a AMD 486DX2 66MHz with 12MB RAM that I plan to run Fun500 on, all thats left now is to add speed.		2008-07-2311:31 AM
ToddRe:Fun500 Progress
Are the apps simple or complex? The more complex you get, the more RAM you need. Just don't pull a Vista. ;)		2008-07-2311:33 AM
BrandonRe:Fun500 Progress
lol dude unforuanatly I suffer from the qb PROB were you have a lot of wasted ram space. Although the window size is dynamic(part of my space savings, in 3 all windows had 1000x1000 buffers) so with a large text editor the ram would suffer. Anyways these tests are on my development laptop that likes the resolution 1024x786 and lower ones look crappy. I tested at 640x480 and saved another MB!! So thats 5MB with one app! With 8MB you are loaded!		2008-07-2311:50 AM
ToddRe:Fun500 Progress
That really sucks. I thought FB would've had better memory management modules. There's a way to kinda cheat the system with unused RAM. It's this thing I used in M-OS called "SHROOM". It stands for "SHell ROOM" (not the actual shroom). It makes a considerable difference and it will stop memory errors.		2008-07-2312:00 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 Progress
How do you use it?		2008-07-2312:03 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 Progress
You run the command, "SHROOM -R FILENAME.EXE" and it'll run the "FILENAME.EXE".		2008-07-2312:09 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 Progress
It don't seem to help me		2008-07-2312:34 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 Progress
If you run tons of apps, it'll help then. At least it should. I noticed the difference.		2008-07-2312:37 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 Progress
Its probably cus I use FB and cus I use a scripter not many EXEs.		2008-07-2312:50 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 Progress
Yeah that's probably the case.		2008-07-231:05 PM

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