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#1 2010-12-17 19:01:22

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SkipVM 2 is (finally) here!

SkipVM 1, released in September, was a huge addition to the Skip programming arsenal. Running the powerful and fast Skip 2.0, it was a big success....and a big hit.

But now, in December 17, after months of research, programming, and debugging, SkipVM 2 is finally publicly released. (only 2 weeks after it's estimated release date  tongue ) Running Skip 2.5 assembly code, it's amazingly fast compared to it's predecessor.

What's new
-Skip 2.5 is an assembler, so it doesn't have built in graphics and audio commands, but it is also much faster.
-SkipVM 2 supports images! This means that an image can be stored in a VDisk, and they can be read and put on the screen.
-Skip 2.5 has a new "jump" command. In old versinos of Skip, the "goto" command was used sparingly because it wasn't exactly user-friendly. With new "jump tags" jumping and jumping to sub-routines is very easy.
-SkipVM has a grahics processor, and audio processor, and a disk manager. These display graphics, play audio, and retrieve files from disks.
-SkipVM and Skip 2.5 share memory, so SkipVM can now accept virtual hardware

It's not going to make sense to a lot of people, because it doesn't seem to do much, even though it does a lot and is extremely complicated, but a good explanation is included in the ABOUT sprite.

I hope you like it, because it took me months to make.

Here it is!  big_smile


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#2 2010-12-17 20:25:16

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Re: SkipVM 2 is (finally) here!

Why us it that no one ever replies to my Show and Tell threads?  sad


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#3 2010-12-18 07:04:50

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Re: SkipVM 2 is (finally) here!

ScratchReallyROCKS wrote:

Why us it that no one ever replies to my Show and Tell threads?  sad

See what I mean? It's been all night.


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#4 2010-12-18 07:19:02

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Re: SkipVM 2 is (finally) here!

I'll check it out!

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#5 2010-12-18 07:26:47

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Re: SkipVM 2 is (finally) here!

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

I'll check it out!

Thanks  tongue


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#6 2010-12-18 07:28:51

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Re: SkipVM 2 is (finally) here!

I don't really get it

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#7 2010-12-18 07:39:33

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Re: SkipVM 2 is (finally) here!

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

I don't really get it

I thought that would happen. Did you look in the ABOUT sprite?


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#8 2010-12-18 07:43:14

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Re: SkipVM 2 is (finally) here!

no

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#9 2010-12-18 07:43:53

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Re: SkipVM 2 is (finally) here!

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

no

Then look. I wrote a whole paragraph on it.


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#10 2010-12-18 17:14:42

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Re: SkipVM 2 is (finally) here!

bump


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