Re: Year 1 OS - Community Blog
Well its already coded in Assembly,
y1os-tutorial-series-1.tar.gz, is the assembly source code... which its simple enought to double as somebody's first Assembly project... but I understand people just don't like assembly these days...
at the moment I am working on a C compiler to compile Y1OS kernels and Y1OS programs to go along with... if it took me a couple months to finish the Y1OS... I'm thinking it might take me that much to do the compiler... its a question of how often I am able to sit in front of a PC with a clear mind and willing to code for an hour or so...
when I finish the compiler, anybody is going to be able to do the Y1OS kernel his/her own way...
making the Y1OS work on a thumb drive is attractive because I think its neat to see your own OS boot the new mini-notebooks that are comming out... Thats probably what I'll be doing after the compiler... that along with going protected mode, simple memory management, simple multitasking, video driver stuff, sound driver stuff,... that stuff is not fun but I need to go there... such stuff is a question of digesting information and how can I delegate that? I don't know...
I do have fun stuff planned for the Y1OS demo images... In an attempt to try to get people to see what I see... one of the Y1OS demo images will be something that will look like the UI interface of an MP4 player ... it won't play mp3s or videos, instead it will play simple midi/FM/mod music and some demos from Hornet.org, and have simple games and PIM apps... I am hopin that will get people excited enought and attract some talent this way...