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Hi.

I've been developing an OS project for quite some time now, and hope to get some feedback.
You can get the images here:
http://orbides.1gb.ru/ape090821.zip
Containing a floppy and bootable CD images.

What interests me is if it works on anything other than bochs, qemu and a one PC.
So, if you can and willing to test it on real hardware or an uncommon emulator, feedback and ideas are highly appreciated.

What to look for:
There are 2 modes - GUI mode is started by default, console mode is the second option in GRUB.
In console mode, i'm interested in mutex tests - mt and mt_asm commands.
They should output a column of A and B lines, no intersections, no exceptions.
Other commands are undifferentiating for now.

In GUI mode, first thing is if it works at all.
It should select a VESA 800x600x16 mode automatically. If it doesn't, nothing will happen.
There should be 4 tasks, last one may appear after some seconds on slow emulators.
The switching is in upper-left corner, whole screen per task.
If the mouse doesn't work (does it? another axial thing to test), the tasks are switched every 2 seconds.

I didn't decided yet what are bugs and what are features in the GUI, so testing anything but mouse working, button clicking, graphics showing is only useful for ideas and suggestions.

Thanks for the testing.


Screenshots:

Nice.

(You even use the method I do for keeping track of builds ^-^)

It's pretty fun to play around with but a couple of bugs:

Bochs 2.3.7:
1. Booting directly into VESA mode causes it to hang

2. In the console calling apic causes
"[APIC0] APIC register 0 not implemented"
"[APIC0] failed assertion "(addr & 0xf) == 0" at apic.cpp:542"
"[APIC0] APIC register 0 not implemented"
*Triple fault?*

3. Calling mt & mt_asm react weirdly, sometimes they loop continuously, or they crash at random points and at one point mt caused a sudden restart (triple fault?)

4. vbe does nothing?

5. if you don't type in a command and then press the up arrow you get an up arrow as a character and you can't backspace.


VPC 2007:
Hung the first time I booted into graphical mode.
When the VESA mode works it's SLOW. Looks like 5-10 FPS?
And mt/mt_asm still loop for no apparent reason.
The font also didn't change like it did in Boch (in console mode)
Don't know if that's a Boch bug or a VPC bug.


Was still pretty cool to play with. Good luck. ^-^

Thank you for testing and goodwish.

AUsername wrote:2. In the console calling apic causes
"[APIC0] APIC register 0 not implemented"
"[APIC0] failed assertion "(addr & 0xf) == 0" at apic.cpp:542"
"[APIC0] APIC register 0 not implemented"
*Triple fault?*

Relatively correct - it's does nothing useful so far.

AUsername wrote:3. Calling mt & mt_asm react weirdly, sometimes they loop continuously, or they crash at random points and at one point mt caused a sudden restart (triple fault?)

They are supposed to loop, giving out a column of A B lines.
Which exceptions was there? Anything coherent?

AUsername wrote:4. vbe does nothing?

Yes, it was an old way to start the GUI.

AUsername wrote:When the VESA mode works it's SLOW. Looks like 5-10 FPS?

Slow in every window, or specific ones?

AUsername wrote:The font also didn't change like it did in Boch (in console mode)
Don't know if that's a Boch bug or a VPC bug.

The font is supposed to change - init loads the russian console font.

not working for me at all.. I get the same error using both the regular boot option and the [console] boot option

I might write out a floppy and test it a bit later on a few machines.. I have a P2.. think it'll work with that? lol

earlz wrote:not working for me at all..
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I might write out a floppy and test it a bit later on a few machines.. I have a P2.. think it'll work with that? lol

Then, it's time for the next version.
http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=20771

It should work on P2.