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Love4Boobies wrote:You've done some nice work.

Love4Boobies wrote:I didn't get the chance to test it extensively but here's a bit of negative feedback (I'm assuming this is what you're looking for, I'm not trying to bash - great work overall):

Love4Boobies wrote:You might want the arrow keys to work properly in the console instead of printing digits.

Love4Boobies wrote:Closing the GUI and re-running it will show a buggy loading screen, except for the loading bar (a bunch of random characters in QEMU, everything white in VirtualBox, didn't try it on real HW yet)

Love4Boobies wrote:Not really related to the OS but the tetris game has a red character in the middle of the box - not sure what its purpose is

Love4Boobies wrote:Something tells me that you're clearing the screen by writing black to black for the console. That makes your cursor not show unless you write something and delete it (where you will probably end up having grey on black).

Love4Boobies wrote:I'm not sure how to kill a process (e.g., tetris).

Love4Boobies wrote:For some reason, the arrow keys don't work for tetris under QEMU.

Love4Boobies wrote:Pressing Ctrl+1 under the GUI seems like a bad idea. Try it and see what happens.

Love4Boobies wrote:Is this system multitasking? If yes, shouldn't the console have an option not to wait until a process is finished or something like that?

Love4Boobies wrote:Oh, I forgot to ask - are you running any video drivers when making screenshots? I thought there would perhaps be a VESA driver but I couldn't get the GUI working with anything other than 16 greys. The options in the dialog box are disabled.

WhiteSpirit wrote:It fails to load bga.elf, so I try to load it manually but it still doesn't work, It gives me a "bga not found" message ;

WhiteSpirit wrote:( by the way, i can't use the "shift" key, i think vmware "crashed" it with probably a broken keymap )

WhiteSpirit wrote:I've also tried to load vga.elf instead but I get "application exited with 65280" .

Creature wrote:Is it me or is the "BGA not found" message obvious if you're on VMWare? BGA stands for Bochs Graphics Adapter, and it's AFAIK only supported on Bochs itself (when the appropriate settings are used) or QEMU (with -std-vga I believe). This also means any BGA code won't work and set up a graphics mode on real hardware, but just in Bochs. I see it as something useful to create or test graphics or GUI stuff in when you don't have any way of changing video modes (through the BIOS, VM86, ...) yet.

clange wrote:

Love4Boobies wrote:You might want the arrow keys to work properly in the console instead of printing digits.

I can't reproduce this. Which emulator(s) did it occur in? What keyboard do you use?

cyr1x wrote:Very cool stuff you got there .

cyr1x wrote:On the laptop it fails completely -> assertion fails at the pagecount ...

mem block (multiboot): 0x00000000 - 0x0009c000, 0x0009c000; type = 1
mem block (multiboot): 0x0009c000 - 0x000a0000, 0x00004000; type = 2
mem block (multiboot): 0x000e0000 - 0x00100000, 0x00020000; type = 2
mem block (multiboot): 0x00100000 - 0x7ffd8740, 0x7fed8740; type = 1
mem block (multiboot): 0x7ffe0000 - 0x80000000, 0x00020000; type = 2
mem block (multiboot): 0x7ffd8740 - 0x7ffe0000, 0x000078c0; type = 3
mem block (multiboot): 0xfec00000 - 0x00000000, 0x01400000; type = 2

cyr1x wrote:On my pc the keyboard(USB) doesn't work unless I switch loglevel to 2.

cyr1x wrote:And I can't start programms with the builtin shell commands, I have to change to the bin directory to start them (most of them aren't available).

cyr1x wrote:One more thing to add: if I change the keyboard language, nothing happens(US layout remains).

Love4Boobies wrote: I'll get back to you.

AUsername wrote:Once it says the shell has loaded and to use ctrl+<num> to navigate it doesn't respond.

The timer keeps going so it's not hanging but the keyboard doesn't seem to respond.

AUsername wrote:(Tested on real hardware and Boch)