New Planned z80 OS

Brazucs · Post by **Brazucs** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 2:21 am

After this seemingly unattainable goal was revived by a certain Scavenger in a nearby community, the fire was lit up inside all of out hearts when an idea that could work was put forth.

There has been over 130 posts on this nearby community working out the details of what such OS could be like.

To maintain order and organization, a wiki has been created:

http://brazucs.unitedti.org/vera/

I invite you to join us in the development; it will be a community-wide project.

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Here's the basics of it:

- Much like Mozilla Firefox, the OS itself will be very basic and contain perhaps only three things: basic stuff that is needed for a calc, support for plugins, and perhaps support for coding libraries.
- Documentation on how to make plugins to enhance the OS will be published along with the OS.
- Community makes plugins.

There are many more details on this OS at the wiki (which, in case you have forgotten, can be found here).
Please join us in discussion about this at the wiki

-- Brazucs, Scavenger, Radical Pi, among many others who will contribute.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 2:25 am

I have seen this at UTI, and looked like you guys are really going to do it (I hope if stays that way).

Brazucs · Post by **Brazucs** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 2:26 am

"You guys" include you... we hope hope everybody will contribute some code.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 2:27 am

Well I am not really into asm atm...so unless you want some basic

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threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 2:50 am

That url looks like it says unnamedOS sucks...

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 2:56 am

rofl nice one I didnt noticed it at first ^^

sry I doubt i would be able to help much as I only know BASIC and am not programming for calcs much anymore

Brazucs · Post by **Brazucs** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 4:04 am

lol, yeah I mentioned that...
http://unnamedOS.tk/

I don't like TK, though.

KermMartian · Post by **KermMartian** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 1:59 pm

Yeah, I noticed that the unnamed OS "sucx..."

Brazucs · Post by **Brazucs** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 2:00 pm

...which is why we'll name it later

Thanks for your ideas on the wiki, Timendus.

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 2:59 pm

Your dev wiki seems a bit difficult to navigate...

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 4:54 pm

Brazucs wrote:Thanks for your ideas on the wiki, Timendus.

Well, I added only two lines, then I got lost in the wiki, and started reading the thread at UTI

But you're welcome

Brazucs · Post by **Brazucs** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 5:07 pm

Yes, the wiki is hard to navigate... what could be done to make it better?

pacHa · Post by **pacHa** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 5:13 pm

it is quite hard to navigate indeed :)
anyway, I've contributed to a page...

and if I could give an advice : first, the design of the OS is _very_ important imo, more than its implementation (= the code), and enough doc should be clearly written before writing the first line of code

KermMartian · Post by **KermMartian** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 5:16 pm

I definitely agree with pacHa on that.

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Wed 01 Feb, 2006 6:46 pm

Yes, I very much agree. I know you are intending on a lightweight OS, but I like the idea of plugins. Perhaps you could use Apps as these plugins, but within the OS allow Apps to integrate with the OS to a far greater degree than the TI-OS. This way you can have a lightweight base (think the linux base kernel) but be able to add on as extra features and functionality as you want (think mainstream linux distros). So say you start out with nothing more than a file browser, BASIC program executor, executor for nostub assembly programs, and the basic math functions. But then you could add in plugins for a BASIC editor, advanced math suites, office suites, a package of extra BASIC commands, the assembly API, Ion/Mirage compatibility, assembly dev suites, etc.