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im wondering if its possible to build an os that would run inside windows just like an os but without rebooting or any emulater..
i already designed a sample one made in javascript,html and css and made it full screen threw a HTA but i was wondering if there was any other way...

I hate to break it to you, but your HTML/JavaScript "OS" is hardly that. Once of the main criteria for an OS is that it shouldn't need to be hosted in an environment such as Windows/Linux/OSX/etc...

With that said, if you would like to make an interface that gives the "looks" of a new OS, go ahead, but don't call an apple an orange.

Um, wtf would be the point of this in the first place, it couldn't really be called an OS in the first place? Or are you just trying for a general system design without any device specifics?

yeah i know its not an "os" but that was the easiest name to call it... the main point for me is to design my own again "s" or program to run inside windows as a program with a nice gui and the ability to have programs or mini programs to run inside that

just like with the html one it has the ability to browse the web with a few javascript commands INSIDE an hta whitch therefore is an application or html program

so what im getting at is lawless gui and the ability to run apps inside apps
any help

Like anything else, it's possible, just would be a pain in the arse and totally pointless..

not pointless to me i would enjoy it im looking torwards the idea of instead of RESOURCE files i use HTML files so html resources are there any langauges suported to that...

This is the wrong forum for that sort of thing. Look for an web development forum. What you are planning is far removed from real OS development, as the others have said.

That being said, your best bet would be flash. It would be relatively simple to create a "OS" in flash that was able to load other flash applications. You could also use some kind of API so that the applications could talk to your OS so they could do things like window management. I'm not sure what it would accomplish though...

And bumping after less than an hour is stupider than this thread. If it's at least somewhere near the top, people might read it. "BUMP" just makes us want to read it less.

idc if bumping it makes you not want to read it lol i want it to be an EXE file almost like the games i was wondering if you could "refer" me to any langauges and this would be considered an "os" to me because it has the ability to run applications inside of it and speak to the computer through another os almost like an emulater

Then program it in C,C++,Java, etc.

You might also want to learn how to use periods if you are making an OS.

brokenbylaw wrote:i want it to be an EXE file almost like the games

What are "the games"? Are you seriously referring to video games, yet you want to write an OS?

yeah i know its not an "os" but that was the easiest name to call it... the main point for me is to design my own again "s" or program to run inside windows as a program with a nice gui and the ability to have programs or mini programs to run inside that

Sounds more like an Operating Environment rather then an Operating System, so I would call it that.

When people say Operating Environment I think Windows 1.0 - 3.11

Troy Martin wrote:When people say Operating Environment I think Windows 1.0 - 3.11

Me too That is kind of what the OP wants though; software that creates a new environment running on top of another OS...like Windows 1.0-3.11.

From what I can interpret, what the OP wants is to mimic (and re-implement the functions of) an OS in HTML and Javascript. Yippee-ka-yay!