DrHaximus
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| 29 Apr 2013 05:46 PM |
Hi guys. Sorry I've been away, my data for the month ran out and my connection to the Internet has been severely disturbed.
I've spent about a month looking into how operating systems work, and how the hardware and the peripherals all communicate to the OS. I've put together a little, fun project that I've been working towards called 'Kiwi' (my national symbol, not the fruit.)
Here are a few screenshots:
imgur(dotcom)/dqFE2SR.png imgur(dotcom)/xuXwlye.png
I've got GCC on it, so it's self dependent. The next step is to install Lua on it so that Lua files can (hopefully) be interpreted as one of the native executable formats for the operating system.
As others have pointed out, this project is mostly useless, but if you like I can upload a ISO/floppy image later if you want to try it out. |
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dekkonot
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| 29 Apr 2013 05:47 PM |
When I hear or read the word kiwi I think of the bird and that cute little animation of one trying to fly.
Oh, and looks pretty awesome. =D
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DrHaximus
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| 29 Apr 2013 05:48 PM |
| I forgot to mention, the reason this looks a bit pre-mature, is that it took a long time to set up the behind the scenes stuff :) |
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Dr01d3k4
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| 29 Apr 2013 05:49 PM |
Awesomeee :D I've looked into making an OS before and was just like wuttt D:
Btw I think what you said about behind-the-scenes is called a black triangle. |
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DrHaximus
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| 29 Apr 2013 05:50 PM |
"Btw I think what you said about behind-the-scenes is called a black triangle."
I don't know what... A black triangle? I don't know what
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I couldn't express my "whatness" in this post. |
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1waffle1
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| 29 Apr 2013 05:52 PM |
"I couldn't express my "whatness" in this post."
To such an extent that it had to be spread to mine:
WHAT. |
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dekkonot
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| 29 Apr 2013 05:52 PM |
Wait...What?
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DrHaximus
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| 29 Apr 2013 05:53 PM |
No! Back to the topic, do not derail! Bad scripters! |
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Dr01d3k4
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| 29 Apr 2013 05:53 PM |
| I can't remember where I heard it. I think it's from a dev team on a PS1 game. They started working, then the publishers came to see what they had a few months in, and to the publishers it just looked like a black triangle on the screen, but to the devs, they knew that that triangle had to go through all the rendering and shader code that took a long time to set up, and then from there the full game was finished in less time than it took to make the black triangle. |
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Dr01d3k4
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| 29 Apr 2013 05:54 PM |
| Aha I googled it. I remembered it slightly wrong but yeah, it is a real thing :D. Google "black triangle programming" and it's the first result by rampantgames. |
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dekkonot
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| 29 Apr 2013 05:55 PM |
Anyway... PS1 games aside...
Any plans for things that you're going to add, and when will I get a release of it?
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DrHaximus
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| 29 Apr 2013 05:58 PM |
I don't know what I want from it. The next step is probably to get Ethernet working so that I can bridge the connection to my textbed (I use wireless) then walah! Implement a wget sort of thing, etc. |
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dekkonot
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| 29 Apr 2013 05:59 PM |
You might want to look at what Microsoft did wrong and make it not do that.
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TheMyrco
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| 29 Apr 2013 06:01 PM |
| Neat, I actually like the retro style. |
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DrHaximus
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| 29 Apr 2013 06:03 PM |
By the way, you can find the wiki over at... 122.59.14.234 on port 80
I'm hosting it on wireless, so it will probably be uber sloww
No download links yet, but there's an installation guide :D 122.59.14.234/index.php/Installation |
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Yafaray
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| 29 Apr 2013 06:03 PM |
| haha nice COSMOS trash kiddo |
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dekkonot
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| 29 Apr 2013 06:04 PM |
Same. You should make it primarily in the console...
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DrHaximus
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| 29 Apr 2013 06:04 PM |
@Yafaray
Are you referencing the magazine or...? |
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dekkonot
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| 29 Apr 2013 06:05 PM |
Just ignore the skiddy. He's just messing with you.
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Yafaray
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| 29 Apr 2013 06:07 PM |
kiddo I ain't no skid unlike you nerds using C++
if you were a real programmer you wouldn't use trash like that designed to make you dependent on non-free libraries
you could learn a thing or two from Stallman |
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dekkonot
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| 29 Apr 2013 06:09 PM |
Once again, I see no proof that you even know what you're talking about. All I see is someone who showed up on a thread about someone putting effort into something and telling him it's terrible.
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TheMyrco
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| 29 Apr 2013 06:10 PM |
| The name's Troll, Fail Troll. :) |
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Yafaray
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| 29 Apr 2013 06:10 PM |
oh please this is obviously either precompiled C# COSMOS trash or copied Assembly
neither of these are impressive and you shouldn't even bother since your operating system doesn't respect my freedoms |
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DrHaximus
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| 29 Apr 2013 06:11 PM |
@Yafary
"trash like that designed to make you dependent on non-free libraries"
Everything on it is made by be (except for GNU's GRUB bootloader) so yeah. |
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Yafaray
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| 29 Apr 2013 06:12 PM |
| read up on the glorious word of Richard Stallman and his teachings regarding trash languages like C++ and you might just switch to C |
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