Hi Ed,
Nice to see that someone's still interested in using PicoGUI. If you do
move it to github give me a shout, and I'll update the web site with a
prominent link.
As for why I gave up on it... life happens. It was fun to work on for a few
years, then I needed to move on. The project might have lived on if there
was more interest in it, but it never had enough momentum to continue on
without me :(
—beth
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Edward Robbins
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all,
> I guess that now, 10 years later, this list is pretty dead (like the
> website). I know picogui from my psion days, and I decided to use picogui
> for some development work because it's still much faster than anything else
> out there, and when you need a gui that can run multiple apps on a 150MHz
> ARM9 machine with 32MB RAM you need something faster than X windows, and
> something that doesn't need any real graphics capabilities. Being able to
> run multiple SDL programs, and already having a terminal app, are also big
> wins. Looking around, picogui is still really the only thing that fits the
> bill for this without investing serious amounts of time... why did you give
> up on it!?
>
> Anyway, I spent most of yesterday hacking, and managed to get the 0.46
> build system and code updated to the extent that it now builds on a modern
> OS. Unfortunately there are 64-bit compatibility issues with themec, which
> I still need to look into, and I think that maybe the linux framebuffer has
> changed since picogui's heyday (when I run the framebuffer servers I get
> random looking text all over the screen - I'd be interested if anyone knows
> anything about fixing this). But the x11 driver seems to work just fine.
>
> I'm going to put the updated code onto github soon, and then look into the
> x64 issues, then the framebuffer, then hopefully I can start writing the
> apps I want, and getting it to build with an ARM cross compiler. I don't
> think I'll actually be improving the code unless I run into bugs, but
> thought someone out there might be interested anyway.
>
> Cheers,
> Ed
>
>
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