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Nice work. How do you access disks? Do you use vm86 mode, real mode or do you program the ATA controller?Roflo wrote:Yeah, now my little OS can read HardDisks and Partitions
VM8086 mode should work well actually..Roflo wrote:I program the controller, the other ways wont work properly in a multitasking environment.
It is not portable. Even not in x86-64!.omarrx024 wrote: VM8086 mode should work well actually..
How do you know what's real?Brynet-Inc wrote:It's always nice when people take pictures instead of exclusively testing in emulators. Real hardware is important.
Why not pictures of emulators hosted on the OS running the boot-code of the OS?Brynet-Inc wrote:It's always nice when people take pictures instead of exclusively testing in emulators. Real hardware is important.
Inspired by Brynet's comment, I took some time to get my netbook updated with my newest builds. It's been quite a while since I last had a bootable system on it. Turns out, I had some problems in my ATA drivers that prevented device detection from functioning on the sloooow PATA controller, so after quite a bit of debugging I finally got that figured out and...Brynet-Inc wrote:It's always nice when people take pictures instead of exclusively testing in emulators. Real hardware is important.
Really, your OS is looking as real as a Linux distro. I wonder, why your OS is not famous as it should be?klange wrote:Inspired by Brynet's comment, I took some time to get my netbook updated with my newest builds. It's been quite a while since I last had a bootable system on it. Turns out, I had some problems in my ATA drivers that prevented device detection from functioning on the sloooow PATA controller, so after quite a bit of debugging I finally got that figured out and...Brynet-Inc wrote:It's always nice when people take pictures instead of exclusively testing in emulators. Real hardware is important.
Both Linux and ToAru have one problem - hardware support. And why do you think it's not famous? For example, it's (and PonyOS) well known on one of the most popular russian Linux forums - linux.org.ru.muazzam wrote:Really, your OS is looking as real as a Linux distro. I wonder, why your OS is not famous as it should be?klange wrote:Inspired by Brynet's comment, I took some time to get my netbook updated with my newest builds. It's been quite a while since I last had a bootable system on it. Turns out, I had some problems in my ATA drivers that prevented device detection from functioning on the sloooow PATA controller, so after quite a bit of debugging I finally got that figured out and...Brynet-Inc wrote:It's always nice when people take pictures instead of exclusively testing in emulators. Real hardware is important.
Popularity at one website is not popularity. It is not even in wikipedia, osnews etc and it is even less popular than kolibri OS or menuet OS. I think, one reason of not being famous is that it is not available to download from its website and its "strange" name.Roman wrote: And why do you think it's not famous? For example, it's (and PonyOS) well known on one of the most popular russian Linux forums - linux.org.ru.
Again, it definitely cannot compete with Windows (you know why), it can compete with Linux, if it will get community, but Linux already has got it.muazzam wrote:Popularity at one website is not popularity. It is not even in wikipedia, osnews etc and it is even less popular than kolibri OS or menuet OS. I think, one reason of not being famous is that it is not available to download from its website and its "strange" name.Roman wrote: And why do you think it's not famous? For example, it's (and PonyOS) well known on one of the most popular russian Linux forums - linux.org.ru.
), but if had an OS that was actually usable, I would probably like using it sometimes myself and writing about it here and on Lowlevel, but I certainly wouldn't be interested in doing any sort of marketing or even just supporting other users.
Yes, old... 3x4GHz ...omarrx024 wrote:It's nice to have old computers to test your OS on.
This PC has only 512 MB of RAM. I didn't mean very old, it's just older than my nice laptop (Intel Core i3)Roflo wrote:Yes, old... 3x4GHz ...omarrx024 wrote:It's nice to have old computers to test your OS on.
