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Making an OS... Help pls

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2002 12:00 am
by Alek3k
Hi all, Ive been programming in Visual Basic
for 6 years and I am very comfortable with it.
How should I start making an OS in VB6? I want to
make an OS like windows xp, should I use forms
or something else? please help me!!

RE:Making an OS... Help pls

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2002 12:00 am
by Khumba
One thing first: You can't make a true OS in VB.
You could make a GUI, but it would still require
Windows to run. For the interface, you could use
forms, DirectDraw, or even write your own graphics
DLLs in assembly (the fastest). Anyways, good luck
with it!

>On 2002-02-23 06:10:11, Alek3k wrote:
>Hi all, Ive been programming in Visual Basic
>for 6 years and I am very comfortable with it.
>How should I start making an OS in VB6? I want to
>make an OS like windows xp, should I use forms
>or something else? please help me!!