Hey

So are you getting tired of me posting about my OS?

Been having fun again with it, and actually feel like I'm making some
progress.

I'm working on minix filesystems now.. I've got the OS loading from a
minix partition and can open files and execute programs fine. Copying
sort of works, in that the file is copied and the destination file
appears to be intact, however if you reboot the system the filesystem is trashed.

I probably should have done ext2 rather than minix, but I already had
minix code in the tree so i thought i'd fix that vs starting over with a
new FS.

Theres a few other serious bugs to sort out, like if you force reset QEMU instead of Force off and turn on again, it just gives a black screen. (I suspect I'm not initializing something somewhere, and that's probably the reason I just get a black screen on my test computer).

Another thing is to do with the gui, it's a bit flakey, and if you move
the system console while it's starting up, you get a black screen (with a
mouse pointer).

If you want to see an (oldish) screenshot, there's one on my
happylandbbs.com site.

I might make a VM download at some point. Except the e1000 driver is a
bit flakey with Virtual Box (it works fine in QEMU) - but so does
HelenOS's e1000 driver, so I wonder if there's something wrong with
VirtualBox.

Andrew

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On 2021-12-04 02:28 apam said...

So are you getting tired of me posting about my OS?

I'm not, it is the first time I've heard about it. :)

If you want to see an (oldish) screenshot, there's one on my happylandbbs.com site.

Looks interesting.

I might make a VM download at some point. Except the e1000 driver is a

I hope you will write about it if/when you do, I'd like to try it out. :)

Best regards
//beardy

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I'm not, it is the first time I've heard about it. :)

:) Well at least I'm not just talking to my self :D

I hope you will write about it if/when you do, I'd like to try it out.
:)

I put up a .ova file on that web page today, it should open in virtual
box, but may also open in other Virtual Machine programs.

It's bound to have a lot of bugs. I put a few extra programs in it,
martin's dungeon bash which is a rogue like game, my basic (a basic interpreter) and qfrotz which is a very very basic port of frotz (along
with hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy zmachine file)

There are also programs like qirc which is a irc client, telnet which is
for bbses, it's really a raw net app, doesn't support telnet codes at all.

there is no editor yet, the networking code is still pretty flakey (the
ether net driver works ok, but the tcp/ip stack is pretty bad)

anyway, have fun playing :)

Andrew
ps, the link is https://happylandbbs.com/pages/Quinn_OS so you don't have
to go searching back through messages :P

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