Phoebus Dokos writes: <> > No the idea of "colour drivers" does not exist in freeQDOS in the sense > that it exists on SMSQ/e or QDOS... freeQDOS is only an OS; the screen > driver is "pluggable" to it (so in theory it could use SMSQ/e drivers) and > there's no PE (although it will be able to use the stand-alone PE). > Colours, graphics etc in the current incarnation are handled much like > UN*X by a graphics "server" of sorts on which you plug any GUI on top... > freeQDOS is in essence (currently that is) a Minerva core with a lot of > stuff removed and even more added... currently it aims at running on Qx0 > machines, the Amiga, the Atari and the SGC (and possibly on ColdFire > processors... just got the PortASM/68K for free thanks to Dave that showed > me a link that Nasta showed him :-) ) taking advantage of all the extra > facilities on these processors with a full cli (sash currently). It > currently has support for FP commands (ergo it is extremely fast on FPU > systems) and uses a lot of code originally developed for QDOS Classic... > and the whole package is created and maintained using entirely free > software Milestone edition 0.001a has just been reached (ie it booted > under the Q40) but not much else except complete conversion of the core > over to gwass from Q-Mac. Due to the lack of time it has progressed slowly > over the last year but work on it continues... the reason why I do not > talk about it is simply because it isn't ready... and for all purposes it > is now still vapourware... so consider it non-existent :-) <>
It seems to me that we need Yet Another Version Of Qdos [YAVOQ] like we need an eighth hole in the head! What is the thinking behind it? Or is it just an expression of pure tribalism? Per _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
