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| Brandon | Fun500 6.2Yeah that's right, it's been under a week! Included are SVGA graphics, a QML Browser, and just for Horvat: a calculator with bigger buttons.
NOTE: QML uses WGET for DOS, you need a packet driver. 6.2 | 2010-07-10 | 5:55 PM |
| HorvatM | Re:Fun500 6.2I demand that you change my credits to "Font additions and optimizations" or a shortened version of it because Fun500 has more bugs with each release and thus saying that I helped with debugging is giving me a bad image. | 2010-07-11 | 5:51 AM |
| Brandon | Re:Fun500 6.2How about I remove you from credits altogether?
* Drive switching in FM still doesn't work for me. I need more details, on every machine config I've tried it works fine. * When you have a QML window open, or more of them, the windows redraw very slowly when you move or close them. Surely at least the ones that take a long time to redraw could be saved into memory, or to disk? Of course on today's machines everything is lightning fast, but Fun500 appears to be aimed at older machines too.Open pages are cached to the disk, but ASCII art takes time to render, but the speed isn't really an issue, on my 486 it was faster than most any WIn3.1 app. * There doesn't appear to be any advantage to using 8-bit or 16-bit color, because QML pages are 4-bit color, the Config app is 4-bit color, and the F5I icon format is 4-bit color. How is it a con that I support more screen modes?? Anyhow, I enabled support now so that it can be tested before I add in things that need it. * The splash screen still forces you to press a key, but let's forget that for a minute. It always displays in 640*480 (probably in 4-bit color as well), so the display will change resolutions twice, even if your resolution is 640*480. As always, you can disable it. It isn't 4bit, look at the code, but its 640x480 so I can use the same boot screen that you keep complaining about, because you complain about it. * The SVGA modes did not work for me outside DOSBox, but even inside DOSBox, the 1280*1024 mode didn't work - it crashed DOSBox to text mode. I'm sure it's just my configuration, however Fun500 apparently does not even check whether the video mode is supported on the hardware before it switches to it. This meant that I had to edit the SYS\PREFS.INI file manually. On one occasion, that file was trashed completely, so I had to rewrite it from scratch! If the source code wasn't included, I'd have to reinstall Fun500. RESET.BAT is there for a reason. | 2010-07-11 | 8:08 AM |
| HorvatM | Re:Fun500 6.2Remember, you're not doing it for me. | 2010-07-11 | 9:58 AM |
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