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Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:27 pm
by Troy Martin
Yeah, sorry, you're too late, but real nifty OS, BrainFuck in a sector, not normally heard of!
Ew, vi, nasty!
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:55 pm
by Alboin
Troy Martin wrote:Yeah, sorry, you're too late, but real nifty OS, BrainFuck in a sector, not normally heard of!
He is right, you know. It's still not yet Jan. 6 at 'midnight'.
It's not his fault that 'midnight' is slightly ambiguous...
Troy Martin wrote:Ew, vi, nasty!
Do learn to use something before criticizing please. Thank you!
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:21 am
by quok
Alboin wrote:Troy Martin wrote:Yeah, sorry, you're too late, but real nifty OS, BrainFuck in a sector, not normally heard of!
He is right, you know. It's still not yet Jan. 6 at 'midnight'.
It's not his fault that 'midnight' is slightly ambiguous...
Troy Martin wrote:Ew, vi, nasty!
Do learn to use something before criticizing please. Thank you!
I think that a deadline of 12:01am makes a lot more sense than the rather ambiguous 'midnight'. Most people would assume "Jan 6th at midnight" to actually mean 12:00am Jan 7th, I guess... but 12:01am Jan 6th isn't as mistakable. If only because of this, I'd say accept the entry.
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:50 am
by 01000101
quok wrote:Alboin wrote:Troy Martin wrote:Yeah, sorry, you're too late, but real nifty OS, BrainFuck in a sector, not normally heard of!
He is right, you know. It's still not yet Jan. 6 at 'midnight'.
It's not his fault that 'midnight' is slightly ambiguous...
Troy Martin wrote:Ew, vi, nasty!
Do learn to use something before criticizing please. Thank you!
I think that a deadline of 12:01am makes a lot more sense than the rather ambiguous 'midnight'. Most people would assume "Jan 6th at midnight" to actually mean 12:00am Jan 7th, I guess... but 12:01am Jan 6th isn't as mistakable. If only because of this, I'd say accept the entry.
agreed 100%.
Also, it shouldn't be a big deal anyways. This isn't a 'for-profit' competition or something similar, it's just good fun, so I say "no harm, no foul".
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:39 am
by Troy Martin
Yeah, guess you're right, cippo's in. Congratz cippo, that's counted as a minor win xD
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:05 am
by cippo
Thanks Troy Martin, mighty nice of you!
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:32 pm
by Troy Martin
Not a problem, I was thinking that "deadline" wasn't really fairly described
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:41 am
by lcowles
can we do another 512-byte competition I can play starwars (well a few notes) with the PC speaker from boot-time, tested in qemu ready now (or should I just post-it)
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 4:18 pm
by Troy Martin
You missed the deadline for the latest one by a day. We'll probably do another this summer.
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 7:52 am
by df
pretty cool guys!
I come around so infrequently I miss such neat stuff
I must show up more often...
wait...
must.. not.. get dragged.. back into.. osdev...
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 8:32 am
by Troy Martin
HOLY CRAP! IT'S DF!
*drags df back in... we have cookies...!*
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 9:33 am
by Coty
df wrote:I come around so infrequently I miss such neat stuff
I must show up more often...
yes, I know what meen...
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:29 pm
by a427
Dohh.. Apparently I managed to miss the third 512 byte compo !!! grrr
Anyway congrats to all entries, especially Dex who won..
In case there's a fourth 512 byte sector compo, I've still got my entry ready and waiting...
(summary : requires 8088 or better; no BIOS access; debugger+mem dumper; can build as ROM extension or floppy sector; run in qemu+real hardware)
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:33 pm
by Coty
yes, I kinda missed it to, but it just gives me more time to improve it
Re: 512-byte OS Contest
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:02 am
by earlz
If I enter the next 512 competition, I'm going to attempt to write my OS in hex. The ability to know that opcodes are also numbers and to be able to do amazing self-code modifying tricks like adding 1 to an opcode to affect another register. I think it would be amazing if I could do that... and the size of the OS could be so small in theory..