I'm Back

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:27 pm

Hi everyone,

After a couple of months break from doing anything related to osdev and instead working on my game engine, I'm back and ready to do some more work on my OS.

Bit daunting at the moment reading through all the posts I missed

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AJ · Post by AJ » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:51 am

Hello again! See you in a few weeks when you come out from under the pile of unread posts

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:55 am

I'm very glad for the "Mark all posts unread" on the forum index page. I read all of the posts in general programming and general discussion but I gave up when i saw the amount of posts in the main 3 forums

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AJ · Post by AJ » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:58 am

Out of interest, when you went back to your OS project, have you managed to pick it up where you left off?

All too often in the past, I have come back to a project and thought "Why the hell did I do that?", with so much of the code, that I end up doing an almost complete rewrite.

Cheers,
Adam

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:03 am

I think I will be rewriting "Mattise" because I plugged paging and related memory management into the OS late and had a lot of hacked code to try to make it work with tasks. It'd be great to rewrite the system and write it from the outset with paging constructs and all that (so that I don't end up with lots of hacks).

Plus, it'll help clean up a lot of spare code left over from my mid-kernel design switch from a Monolithic to a Micro kernel.

JamesM · Post by **JamesM** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:06 am

If you're rewriting and fancy working with some other developers, you could give me a PM. Myself, Tyler and bluecode are currently in the design stage of a new OS (by design stage I mean it's 4 days old!!)

Basically I decided to rewrite, and asked if anyone else had plans to do so too. The design as it stands is an amalgamation of all our ideas + some logic.

Anywhoo, if you're interested, let one of use know