Stefan Franke wrote:
> > > To be honest, if you REALLY want graphics in
> > > ELKS, you might want to consider a model like
> > > pre-Windows/386 had.
I always like Windows/286 2.1. I liked it so much I
wrote a (text-mode; used a cool smooth mouse pointer
by playing with bit plane 2 though) cute clone of it,
that even used the same memory management concepts
(of course, my implementation had some serious bugs!).
> > Actually the change to overlapping windows came
> > with Windows 2.0
But Windows 1.0 ran in 320K mem. This is relevant to me
as I have an IBM PC with 320K mem and two double-sided
disks and I can run Windows 1.0 on it. (Along with my
lovely bus mouse!) You can actually use Write or Paint
and my Epson MX-80+GRAFTRAX-80 to print pretty
pictures.
> > > In this world, windows did not overlap,
> > > the screen was divided up equally
> > > between non-minimized applications
Applications *could* be minimised in Windows 1.0; they
just couldn't overlap.
/me is suddenly inspired with nolwm, a non-overlapping
window manager
> Today the sources of GEM/3 v3.13 for IBM PC were released
> under GPL and available for download, see
> http://www.devili.iki.fi/cpm/gemworld.html
This is just too cool.
> The Graphics Environment Manager was a simple,
> but nice GUI for PC ( with 2 floppies
> and 512 KB RAM at least ) and for the Atari ST.
> Wouldn�t it be a good idea to do a port to elks ?
> To have the same GUI for DOS, ELKS and the Atari ST
> would be a plus.
I liked Gem, but found it too expensive (Windows was free
for me <grin>).
Hopefully I'll have some free time soon to play with it
(just read the code; it's like all my childhood dreams are
coming true: Gem released, CP/M released...)
