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by ry755
Thu Feb 23, 2023 7:48 am
Forum: Games & Demos
Topic: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox
Replies: 31
Views: 2628

Re: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox

I was mostly thinking about going the bitmap route because it offers more flexibility. Windows could be drawn at any location, not just at 8x8 pixel boundaries. No need to worry about staying under the 256 tile limit, just draw pixels straight to the screen and forget about it. My current thought is...
by ry755
Thu Feb 23, 2023 3:40 am
Forum: Games & Demos
Topic: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox
Replies: 31
Views: 2628

Re: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox

CunningFellow wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2023 11:13 am On problem with using the SPI RAM this way is that updating the screen is going to be crazy slow compared to internal RAM.
Hmm yeah.. maybe I should just stick with using the internal RAM and then modify video mode 8 to be 1 bpp, which would half the amount of RAM it takes up.
by ry755
Wed Feb 22, 2023 8:28 am
Forum: Games & Demos
Topic: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox
Replies: 31
Views: 2628

Re: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox

Ideally I'd like something like video mode 8 (the 2bpp bitmap mode), but with some sacrifices (i.e. no color, 1bpp) to hopefully squeeze out a bit higher resolution. Oh yikes, I just made a little video mode 8 test program and the RAM consumption is higher than I expected, at 3581 bytes (~87% full)...
by ry755
Tue Feb 21, 2023 11:59 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: SD Card Best Practices
Replies: 2
Views: 1824

Re: SD Card Best Practices

danboid wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 12:52 pm I hope Jubatian is OK. Has anyone heard from him at all in the last year or so? He did so much for the Uzebox community.
He posted an update on his website at the end of 2022, so I assume he's just taking a break from everything.

https://jubatian.com/articles/2022-we-wont-miss-you/
by ry755
Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:18 am
Forum: Games & Demos
Topic: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox
Replies: 31
Views: 2628

Re: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox

danboid wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:12 am That's why it fails to load on my Uzebox then as I don't have the Uzenet adapter installed yet.
Oh you mean it doesn't show an error message about not having the SPI RAM installed? It's supposed to, I guess maybe that got broken at some point without me realizing it :P
by ry755
Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:02 am
Forum: Games & Demos
Topic: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox
Replies: 31
Views: 2628

Re: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox

Yeah I plan on continuing to work on this, I just haven't touched it in 3 years. Honestly I kinda want to just start from scratch. I've learned a lot over those 3 years and I think I would do things differently now. I was thinking about D3thAdd3r's comments from a long time ago about making a GUI f...
by ry755
Tue Feb 21, 2023 8:36 am
Forum: Games & Demos
Topic: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox
Replies: 31
Views: 2628

Re: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox

Using SPI RAM would slow things down appreciably (2 cycles vs 64 for ramdom access) so I would probably would not use it for main memory. Oh it already does use the SPI RAM as the VM's memory. Each VM is allowed to use up to 3KB. With up to 10 VMs allowed to exist at once, that means 30KB of the SP...
by ry755
Tue Feb 21, 2023 5:08 am
Forum: Games & Demos
Topic: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox
Replies: 31
Views: 2628

Re: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox

Yeah I plan on continuing to work on this, I just haven't touched it in 3 years. Another thing is stability on real hardware, iirc it would lock up/reset after a little while and the Apps menu would show garbage characters.
by ry755
Tue Feb 21, 2023 1:01 am
Forum: Programming & Software
Topic: Weber's Rants (tutorials)
Replies: 271
Views: 176078

Re: Weber's Rants (tutorials)

Oh my god this is amazing :lol: Never thought I'd see an actual game made for UzeboxUI, I figured it was far too clunky and slow for that. But I guess this is the perfect type of game for it!!
by ry755
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:59 am
Forum: Games & Demos
Topic: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox
Replies: 31
Views: 2628

Re: UzeboxUI - a GUI demo for Uzebox

Awesome!! :D