MikeOS 2.0 released

[M-Saunders]

Hi everyone,

I've released version 2.0 of MikeOS with these new features:

# FAT12 file writing support (me)
# A new mouse driver (Tomasz Gorol)
# A new C library (Takayoshi Sasano)

Plus there are lots of new system calls and other changes as described in doc/CHANGES.txt in the downloads. As before, MikeOS is designed primarily as a teaching tool for those who want to learn basic OS design and x86 assembler, hence why it uses real mode and BIOS drivers. The MikeOS Handbook serves as a complete, all-in-one documentation source for running the OS and enhancing it. It also includes a section on getting started with simple OS development.

Website: http://mikeos.berlios.de

Cheers,
Mike

[PatrickV]

Well done mate.
I've been always a supporter of MikeOS. I cann't wait to try out this new version which i am downloading down my dail-up line right now. I think you put a mouse driver which i would like try and use and click on things. Keep up the good work

Patrick V

[Troy Martin]

Congratz, Mike!

[xyjamepa]

good work...

I've released version 2.0 of MikeOS with these new features:

# FAT12 file writing support (me)
# A new mouse driver (Tomasz Gorol)
# A new C library (Takayoshi Sasano)

but may I ask ,why you didn't provide a command in the CLI to make a new folder
or a new text file?

[M-Saunders]

but may I ask ,why you didn't provide a command in the CLI to make a new folder
or a new text file?

The MikeOS FAT12 implementation doesn't yet support folders, and we don't have a text editor (although I'll write a line-based editor when I get some spare time), so there's no need for those features right now.

But MikeOS is designed to be easy to understand and enhance if you know assembly fairly well, so you're welcome to try adding those features!

M

[PatrickV]

Hey man.

I finally got around testing your operating system.
Few bugs i might add

1) your mouse program didn't work on my virtual machine 2007. I would their might be a problem with your mouse driver. Not my mouse is not used.

That's what i only can find at this stage

[ApolloOS]

Are you using a touchpad or USB mouse? The latter should work (as it's treated as PS/2 by MikeOS) but touchpad/trackpads seem to be having trouble with mouse.asm at the moment. It's a known problem, and may be something that gets sorted in later versions!

[ScorchOS]

Oops! Old account!

(To explain: I forgot I had the previous account (which is why I created this one) and a version of Firefox on an old PC logged me into the old one automatically! - Once I've worked out how to remove that account this should be the one that remains...!)

[PatrickV]

no not touch pad or usb. it is a standard ps2 mouse. Could it the virtual machine not interperting as if it was real hardware? Not sure. All i now i am not using anything usb

[ScorchOS]

Ok - I'll try posting your bug on the MikeOS mailing list. I think it's the one package we haven't used (we tend to use Innotek Virtualbox, qemu or VMware for testing).

You could try burning it down to an actual floppy (you can use the dd command to do this if you're using Linux - see the MikeOS documentation for more details on this). It shouldn't have any problems with your real hardware.