02-07-2023, 09:39 PM
(02-07-2023, 02:57 AM)TerryRitchie Wrote: Oh I know, Windows 8.1 through 11 will run beautifully on my i7-6700K especially since I have 32GB of RAM in the machine too.
The reason I stopped at the 6th generation of CPU is because of the artificial barrier put in place for Windows 7 to work on 7th generation and greater CPUs.
ROFL at the comment near the bottom of the screen in the last screenshot! But I had to facepalm more than once... wanted to put a giant emoticon borrowed from some other site about it... with "Ask about genuine M$ software", like really?
"Artificial barrier" might have been M$'s limitations knowing about today's technology, although they would never admit it. Could have been the way applications were designed and written, before Windows8 release, because the majority of them were still 32-bit. Some of them needed "bit-bridging" technology in a 64-bit-only OS. It wasn't until 2017 or maybe earlier that there were enough 64-bit options. It's only a matter of time before everything online is forced into paid subscription mode, it's already happening in the music industry. Yes all that is debatable but... I don't want any problems.
Sort of back on topic: I remember picking up at least one alternative editor for QB64 while QB64 was still related to SDL. One of them was even slower than the original IDE and had this shadow cursor which was driving me crazy. None of my attempts worked to fix it so I had to stop using it. Instead I was supposed to fix the "fruity magenta" foreground color that was dominating the screen. I think that one was by "oldoslover" or another of the heavy-hitters in the first QB64 forum.