About
Fun500 GUI is a GUI, or Graphical User Interface, for MS-DOS. It can be referred to as a BASIC GUI, QB GUI, QBASIC GUI, FreeBasic, GUI, DOS GUI, or DOS Shell. As of version 3.0 its not really useful for everyday task and is not very fast even on a P166.Fun500 GUI started out in 2005 when Brandon Cornell learned about GUIs and read a QB tutorial about graphics. Fun500 GUI 2005 was the first release and it had poor icons and a keyboard controled pixel "mouse". The only program was a calculator that used INPUT commands. A few days later came 2005 Bronze with added themes and a simple game. The last release of the 2005 Series came in May 2005 and was called 2005 Silver which added a screensaver and the ability to run two different external BAS file. The 2005 Series Code (Rewrite 0) has not had a release since even though a Classic edition is a possibility. After 2005 Silver Brandon got a mouse routine and basic SHELL command usage. Fun500 GUI 1.0 (or 1.00 as it was called at the time, lol) added a new sidebar and had all the common apps from the 2005 Series: 1 or 2,Directory Viewer, Text Editor, just a bunch of inputs, and Calculator. Then Fun500 GUI was ready to try to compete with X-GUI and Rush for best GUI ever so Brandon made many Powerful Demos but they never did anything other than show off. Then Almost Exacly 2 years after 2005, Fun500 GUI 2007 was realeased. It had a similar look to 1.00 but with "Skins" fancy themes to make it look like WinXP, or MacOS. It had a calculator with buttons, 1 or 2, and a Config app. And similar to the 2005 Series, after a few days another 2007 release hit shelfs, 2007 Gold. It added more themes, a text viewer with file selection dialog(faulty), and fixed a problem were 2007 wouldn't respond. On June 21, 2007, Fun500 GUI 2.0 came out with EZ Script 1.0 and the first first FunBob he is under 1kb! Then 2 days later on the 23rd 3.0 came out with many bugged fixed and skins.
2005-2007 Brandon Cornell