512-byte OS contest -POLL-

[inflater]

Holy crap Dex! You seem young, are you 13 or less? I feel old...

On topic: Only 6 days left to vote, Dex is at first place. Will Zenith beat him?

[Troy Martin]

Hey, I'm thirteen, dammit!

[offtopic]Downloading the Windows 7 beta, posting to ASR, will copy and paste to a topic here.[/offtopic]

[Dex]

Holy crap Dex! You seem young, are you 13 or less? I feel old...

On topic: Only 6 days left to vote, Dex is at first place. Will Zenith beat him?

Ten , but thats not me, just my little helper.
This is me

[JohnnyTheDon]

And here I though I was one of the younger ones on the forum...

[eddyb]

13 years, me
on: i'm really bad in asm cause i could see only some atapi sector loading, and you do nothing with it. is some bios trick? or do you just make the cd drive to play it(some hidden ports)?

[Dex]

13 years, me
on: i'm really bad in asm cause i could see only some atapi sector loading, and you do nothing with it. is some bios trick? or do you just make the cd drive to play it(some hidden ports)?

You write 12byte command to certain ports, depending on what these 12byte are it will responed, eg: play cd, stop playing cd, open draw, close draw.
This is just the start, the same basic function is what makes up a full ATAPI driver.
But the code to write to these ports need to do many things, like finding the right port, wait ready, check error etc.
So it no BIOS trick (it does not use BIOS), its the basic of any driver, as in you read/write to ports at a certain address, and depnding on weather a certain bit is written as a 1 or 0 or it is read as a 1 or 0 it does differant things.
More info here: http://wiki.osdev.org/ATAPI

[eddyb]

so you command to the cd drive to play the cd, you don't read the audio traks and you play them by using a audio driver.

[Dex]

so you command to the cd drive to play the cd, you don't read the audio traks and you play them by using a audio driver.

I would need drivers for every sound card, in 512byte thats stretching it a bit.

[Zenith]

This contest has ended!

Good job, everybody! Damn, I got third , but still, congrats to everyone who participated, and especially to E and Dex! Lots of creative ideas in making these OSes.

But, straight to the point: I'd like to claim my invisible tokens now, please.

[Alboin]

Here ya go.

<Alboin magically transfers five invisible tokens to Zenith.>

[Troy Martin]

Congratz everyone and winners, can't wait for the next contest!

[Dex]

Cool compo .
For the next one, i will donate a prize of a book token for amazon, so i will not be able to take part.
Congratz to everyone that took part.

[yemista]

no post here

[Coty]

Who would do it again?

[AJ]

Suggestion: You've done "how much can you fit in x bytes...", how about a "Who can perform function x in the smallest space..." comp?

I probably wouldn't enter, but it'd be interesting to see the results.

Cheers,
Adam