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jal wrote:

Uranium wrote:Omega: It is for a games console, not a proper operating system.

I'm not sure I'd call dexos "not a proper operating system" though...


JAL

By that I meant that it isn't designed to run on household computers etc...

If you actually read what I was replying to you would understand.

Uranium wrote:By that I meant that it isn't designed to run on household computers etc...
If you actually read what I was replying to you would understand.

It is not about understanding. It is about your misuse of the word 'proper'. In no definition if it does the word 'household' take part. And that is without starting another discussion, since I offer that consoles are more 'household' than ordinary PCs.


JAL

@Uranium, There is a belief in the none techie world, that there is only one OS (windows), they do not see there phones or video recorders etc as having a OS's.
You as a OS Dev should know that there are 100's of OS and they all are proper OS's, if they do the job that they were designed to do, maybe the other OS's are better OS's, because the point of a OS is that you should not know they are there.

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I see the biggest mistake new OS Dev make, is that they do not have a strong reason for making a OS, if you look at all the successful OS projects, they have strong goals (eg: MenuetOS32 to fit a 32-bit multi-tasking, high-res gui wrtten fully in asm onto a floppy).
I myself was into homebrew for the Xbox, not just games, but other app too, I loved the control i had and knowing that there was no other programs running, i also liked the way anyone that used the game console for the first time could find there way around without a problem, unlike some desktop OS.
But i want a free open source one, which i could not find, so i started coding one and others joined, now this is not a desktop or a replacement for one, but just look at the WII or the DS they are much more than games consoles, they help you cook or train your mind or keep you fit etc.
I have put the above because its the most important, thing to know, if you want your OS to succeed.
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Now if you fall into the trap, of only making a games console OS because you think its easy, than think again, it may not be as hard as a desktop OS, but remember even a Dos clone will take you a good 5 year's, just take a look at freedos , it still nowhere near finished and thats with the help of many coders.
So if it can be used for what it was designed for and does not crash all the time, then its a proper OS.

Back on topic, I just found this:VBE/AI (VESA Bios Extensions / Audio Interface).

MessiahAndrw wrote:Back on topic, I just found this:VBE/AI (VESA Bios Extensions / Audio Interface).

A few members have hinted at the existence of that specification, but, the consensus is it's irrelevant.. don't think anyone even implements it. (By anyone, I mean BIOS developers.).

Its probably more effective to write a wrapper around the alsa-drivers package...