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BrandonThe Future of Viper
Viper is going to be a QB unitasking GUI with a package manager, and a early Mac OS look. Aimed at being able to run on as many machines as possible it will be a good contrast to Fun500 which will remain a FB multitasker.

Today I started on the basics to the SDK.		2010-08-278:56 PM
DickRe:The Future of Viper
I hope you keep the background		2010-08-2710:11 PM
BrandonRe:The Future of Viper
I'm not sure if that was sarcasm, but it made me laugh a little :P That background made things so slow. I actually made a checkered bg (I'm developing in Screen 11) but its not really fast. I plan to support Screens 11 and 12 and possibly even others. Viper is meant to have no compatibility issues with anything. Fun500 being 32bit won't run on my 286.
2010-08-288:25 AM
DickRe:The Future of Viper
SCREEN 11 is 640x480 with 2 colors.  Screen 12 is 640x480 with 16 colors.  Because VGA can support 640x480 with 16 colors I tried making 640x480 with 4 colors and 2 video pages.  Even tried 640x480 with 2 colors and 4 video pages.  Never had success.		2010-08-288:59 PM
BrandonRe:The Future of Viper
Could you do 640x480 with 2 colors and 2 pages?
2010-08-299:15 AM
DickRe:The Future of Viper
No, I've tried using the VGA hardware to do this.  Using the color plane enable register to enable and disable planes, where different pages could be stored.  From what I've seen, it's "supposed" to work, but didn't for me.   As for 2 pages in monochrome,  you could just store the second page in ram as opposed to VGA ram.  It wouldn't really be page-flipping, but it works.  I did something like this in my "fast" GUI demo with the background and 2 draggable windows.  Remember that one?		2010-08-305:34 PM
BrandonRe:The Future of Viper
I remember it, actually the other day when I worked on Viper I was thinking that if you work on a GUI that I'm a little afraid how GUI Awards would work out. I don't really think I need pages, being unitasking and all.
2010-08-306:00 PM
JasonRe:The Future of Viper
In the future library 640x480x8 gives me like 32 pages		2010-08-306:27 PM

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