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| Brandon | Radical Design ConceptThe 5 year aniversary of the releasion of Fun500 2005 (the first version) is comming up in about a month. I would like to release a new version of Fun500 at that time, soI'm really brainstorming as to how it will work. My current thought is a GUI that has all the applications compiled in, so it can go fast, with a titled window system, to free up a lot of ram and system resources. The UI itself will probably have 3 colors and support scaling to any QB screen that has at least 3 colors. I'd write it in QB to limit myself, and to make it compatible with 286s. I also think that keyboard shortcuts would be nice. What do you think? | 2010-03-22 | 11:16 AM |
| Todd | Re:Radical Design ConceptI really like the design. It's better looking than the first beta and more informative (e.g. GUI screenshots on the front page).
Is this forum one you made by the way? It looks better than FlatForum and seems more like the JacobPalm one.
I'll also keep a look out for any bugs I find and let you know so you can fix them. So far it looks good and solid. | 2010-03-22 | 12:56 PM |
| Brandon | Re:Radical Design ConceptLOL, your post was on the web-site :P My post was on the next version of Fun500 :P Anyways, the forum is the one I made. | 2010-03-22 | 1:32 PM |
| HorvatM | Re:Radical Design ConceptWhy would packing everything into the EXE free up memory? If anything, it'll use more memory because all of the apps will be loaded at all times.
But if you choose to use that design, please still allow for a way for others to write applications. (Not that anyone besides me does it, heh :) | 2010-03-22 | 2:31 PM |
| Brandon | Re:Radical Design ConceptI planned on making an SDK available. I didn't say that packing apps into an EXE will free memory. I said it will go fast, and compared to other ways of multitasking, I think it will be quite fast.
| 2010-03-22 | 3:45 PM |
| HorvatM | Re:Radical Design Concept"to free up a lot of ram and system resources."
"I didn't say that packing apps into an EXE will free memory."
Whatever. | 2010-03-22 | 4:18 PM |
| Brandon | Re:Radical Design Concept"with a titled window system, to free up a lot of ram and system resources." You are misreading, the titled windowing system is what will free up system resources.
| 2010-03-22 | 4:44 PM |
| Todd | Re:Radical Design ConceptD'oh! I was reading this quickly at lunch and thought it was for the website. lol | 2010-03-22 | 5:10 PM |
| Dick | Re:Radical Design ConceptWhat exactly is a 'titled window system' ? Perhaps you meant 'tiled' ?
| 2010-03-22 | 11:05 PM |
| Brandon | Re:Radical Design ConceptYeah, I meant tiled, basically windows will not be able to overlap, that way I won't have to store any graphically data in RAM as it will all be on the screen. | 2010-03-23 | 10:41 AM |
| Dick | Re:Radical Design ConceptWindows 3 was tiled I think. Is this going to be your 8kb gui entry? | 2010-03-23 | 9:15 PM |
| TheWalrus | Re:Radical Design ConceptThe first version of Windows was limited to tiled windows, due to Microsoft being afraid of a lawsuit from Apple for stealing their interface (which Apple themselves had stolen from Xerox).
From Windows 2.0 and onwards overlapping windows have been supported. | 2010-03-24 | 2:41 AM |
| Brandon | Re:Radical Design ConceptI'm thinking that I may be able to customize it and release it as my 8kb GUI, I really need to sit down and write up the rules to get that contest started. | 2010-03-24 | 6:50 AM |
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