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I have taken a fascination in operating systems and making one. But I don't know what tools besides bochs to use. Right now all that I plan to do is making a basic os without a GUI.

Well, I mean you can use notepad for writing code. Although I would recommend Visual Studio or eh CodeBlocks which is I believe cross platform. For the compiler no doubt use gcc(g++), linker ld, and assembly, well I'd go with NASM, honestly GAS makes no sense for me.
For the rest look on the wiki.

Thanks do you know if they support windows 8? And also I tried to find stuff on the wiki about the tools but couldn't find it what section is it in

Nvm just found some of that stuff. I could use code blocks to make some of the os?

Yeah sure

Would nasm, Gcc and ld be a good setup?

Yes, that would be the standard setup.

Ok thanks for the help

Hi,

Getting Started on the wiki should be a good place to start your background reading. I use the tools you mentioned on Cygwin in Windows 7 and don't see why there should be any problem doing the same with Windows 8. From your posts it is not clear whether you have any experience with programming at all. If not, it would be a better idea to do some applications programming and get to know your toolchain first.

Cheers,
Adam

Thanks I have done a couple of apps and know some c++