What does your OS look like? (Screen Shots..)

[Octacone]

After 18 hours of work, after 1746 lines of code, my BIOS font is finally finished. I ported everything I needed, also modified some symbols to make them look better. Now I have a nice and solid font base to build my high resolution graphical terminal on top of.

Here it is (sorry for posting high resolution photos, but wanted to show how big my terminal actually is):

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[BrightLight]

After 18 hours of work, after 1746 lines of code, my BIOS font is finally finished.

I should've seen this earlier; I have the entire BIOS font in bitmap format.
What do you mean your BIOS font is finished? Don't you save the bitmap font stored in the VGA and then write a bitmap parser?

[Octacone]

After 18 hours of work, after 1746 lines of code, my BIOS font is finally finished.

I should've seen this earlier; I have the entire BIOS font in bitmap format.
What do you mean your BIOS font is finished? Don't you save the bitmap font stored in the VGA and then write a bitmap parser?

Okay yeah. I made a function that displays bitmap arrays. Every single character is a different array filled with zeros and ones. I made an array for each single character I needed. The font I am using is just a standard BIOS font I made into arrays with some minor symbol modifications. I think it looks good, now I just need to write an advanced terminal that will use those characters I ported. My shell is going to be anywhere from 1360x768x32 to 1920x1080x32 and will have many features.

[DeezRamChips]

You know I implemented fonts (multiple one, just change a variable) in an houre and +- 20 lines of code xD

[DeezRamChips]

You should Have used bitmap fonts as I did, because they are way more versatile. You can have multiple ones, multiple sizes...

[DeezRamChips]

Here you go ^_^:

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void drawMonoBitmap(int x, int y, int w, int h, char bitmap[]){
	int i = 0;
	for (int yy = 0; yy < h; yy++){
		for (int xx = 0; xx < w; xx++){
			unsigned where = (x + xx)*(fb_width/fb_xres) + (y + yy)*fb_width;
			vram[where + 0] = bitmap[i];     // BLUE
			vram[where + 1] = bitmap[i];     // GREEN
			vram[where + 2] = bitmap[i];     // RED
			i++;
		}
	}
}

void putCar(int x, int y, char caracter, char font[],char r,char g,char b){
	int location = caracter * 8;
	for (int yy = 0; yy < 8; yy++){
		for (int xx = 0; xx < 8; xx++){
			char pixel = font[location + (yy * 2048) + xx];
			unsigned where = (x + xx)*(fb_width/fb_xres) + (y + yy)*fb_width;
			if (pixel == 0){
				// No pixel !
			}
			else{
				vram[where + 0] = b;     // BLUE
				vram[where + 1] = g;     // GREEN
				vram[where + 2] = r;     // RED
			}
		}
	}
}

void drawString(int x, int y, string caracters, char font[],char r,char g,char b){
	int lng = strlen(caracters);
	for (int i = 0; i < lng; i++){
		putCar(x + (i * 8), y, caracters[i],font,r,g,b);
	}
}
void drawStringCenterd(int y, string caracters, char font[],char r,char g,char b){
	int lng = strlen(caracters);
	int x = (fb_xres / 2) - (lng * 8) / 2;
	for (int i = 0; i < lng; i++){
		putCar(x + (i * 8), y, caracters[i],font,r,g,b);
	}
}

[DeezRamChips]

it even support gray scale (and will support transparency in the future ^^)

[Octacone]

@DeezRamChips
Please read my post entirely. I do have a system for drawing bitmaps. See my screenshot.

[DeezRamChips]

Oh, I though you ment Bitmap images xD

[Octacone]

Oh, I though you ment Bitmap images xD

lol

[Alexis211]

This thread has gone off-topic a bit, here is another screenshot:

Love your work!! Any thoughts about releasing the source code?

[BrightLight]

My shell is going to be anywhere from 1360x768x32 to 1920x1080x32 and will have many features.

Your shell should be resolution independent, and someday, you'd like to use EDID to use the preferred video mode by the monitor. For example, my two test PCs are optimized for 1024x768, while my laptop is optimized for 1366x768, and a small netbook I have is optimized for 1024x600.
If you want to stick to one specific resolution that should be present everywhere, your real choices are only 640x480 and 800x600, which are quite little for 2016.

[Octacone]

My shell is going to be anywhere from 1360x768x32 to 1920x1080x32 and will have many features.

Your shell should be resolution independent, and someday, you'd like to use EDID to use the preferred video mode by the monitor. For example, my two test PCs are optimized for 1024x768, while my laptop is optimized for 1366x768, and a small netbook I have is optimized for 1024x600.
If you want to stick to one specific resolution that should be present everywhere, your real choices are only 640x480 and 800x600, which are quite little for 2016.

Well my goal it to make my master console as high resolution as possible. There are two modes: windowed/compositing mode and full screen mode. For my full screen mode I don't care about supported hardware or anything like that. I am going to make it 16:9 only, no other aspect ratios supported. I am not going to support any old hardware. I want my OS to be as futuristic as possible, getting rid of every non 2016 stuff. Resolutions are getting bigger and bigger: HD, Full HD, 2K, 4K, 8K. My OS is meant for newer hardware with some decent specs. If you have a 2002 laptop then this OS is not for you. I think that people over here should make their operating systems with 2016 standards in mind.

[BrightLight]

Well my goal it to make my master console as high resolution as possible. There are two modes: windowed/compositing mode and full screen mode. For my full screen mode I don't care about supported hardware or anything like that. I am going to make it 16:9 only, no other aspect ratios supported. I am not going to support any old hardware. I want my OS to be as futuristic as possible, getting rid of every non 2016 stuff. Resolutions are getting bigger and bigger: HD, Full HD, 2K, 4K, 8K. My OS is meant for newer hardware with some decent specs. If you have a 2002 laptop then this OS is not for you. I think that people over here should make their operating systems with 2016 standards in mind.

Then why don't you use 64-bit long mode? SSE? AVX? SMP? Hyperthreading? HPET? AHCI? NVMe?
Goals should always start small; otherwise you will always be disappointed.

[Roman]

Have to agree with Omar.

> as futuristic as possible
> using BIOS