Home-made Oss

[Ioncannon]

Any one like to try out differnet homemade operating systems? I knew two: Storm OS and a linux based os were you play doom to do stuff. Storm OS was a homemade os that looked really cool. It was in development and all it had, last time I check was the ability to open/close windows, drag windows, show bmp files in windows and a clock. It would boot off a gloppy. The other os was really funny: you spawn monsters to start programs. Then to kill the program you kill the monster LOL. Any way, any one know any other OSs?

I dreamed up one a long time ago. Game-OS, a os that is ment for games only. When a game is launched the operating system hibernates and puts as much recources as possible to the game. It would have database of profiles of games with updates, info and more. Another version would have been a Game-OS: DOS edition, were its ment for dos games including a sound emulator and the sorts.

[Kon-Tiki]

Oddly enough, I frequent a forum on which a part of it is an OS dev forum. Can give you a whole list of homemade OSes that're currently being developped if you want.

[Ioncannon]

sure I would love that

[Kon-Tiki]

Clicker (http://clicker.sourceforge.net/)
Minirighi OS (http://minirighi.sourceforge.net/)
Cimicis Server OS (http://therx.sourceforge.net/)
Flick (http://flick.sourceforge.net/)
BlueIllusion (http://www.distantvoices.org/html/os.html)
Viridis (http://www.codezen.org/viridis/)
DennisOS (http://dennisos.info/)
BCOS (http://bcos.hopto.org/index.html)
XOS (http://xos.freezee.org/)
Solar OS (http://www.hostileencounter.com/os_main.html)
Dex Extensible (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dex-os/)

That's far from a complete list. Just went through the profiles of the most active people and checked for a link there, but it's something, at least.

[Ioncannon]

whats the site with all these profiles?

[Kon-Tiki]

http://www.mega-tokyo.com/forum

[WolverineDK]

FreeDOS | The FreeDOS Project (http://www.freedos.org/)

is also an OS :)

[quatroking]

Where can i make a OS?

[Kon-Tiki]

's Not as much a question as to where, but more a question as to in which language. Most common for it is C/C++.

[quatroking]

:|... i can't C/C++
(and i don't wanna learn it)

[xoopx]

with windows xp when you play a game, anything that isnt being used is paged out to the swapfile.
obviously, if you're using multiplayer, then internet parts are being used. you wouldnt want winsock.dll to hibernate ;)
all the controls are handled by windows, so you wouldnt want you keyboard, mouse etc driver to hibernate. etc etc

[quatroking]

With windows xp, DOS is terminated.
(but its still there)

[xoopx]

Originally posted by quatroking@Feb 28 2005, 04:11 PM
With windows xp, DOS is terminated.
(but its still there)
its not real dos. its virtualized afaik

[Danny252]

well, it dosen't run my oldies so MEH.
FreeDOS? Interesting... clickclickDOWNLOAD
Warning:XP has detected another possible OS being downloaded. Code 00000001: Competiton
Windows will now shut down.
wow, they include this stuff against competition?

[madcrow]

check out AROS (a pc-based amigaOS clone) and Syllable, a cool UNIX-like that ditches lots of the stuff that make Linux so slow graphics-wise. It's like a multiuser BeOS.