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 publically released. (only 2 weeks after it's estimated release date :P) Running Skip 2.5 assembly code, it's amazingly fast compared to SkipVM 1. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To learn more about this, download it and look in the "ABOUT" sprite. I'm hoping for DevOS to be out by Christmas, but I'm not completely sure. -updates- 12/19/10: bug fixes 12/18/10: Added registers
