03-13-2006, 05:20 PM
hey guys,
in recent days I'v got interested in an "OS" programming and decided to give it a go and thus FBOS ( FreeBasicOperatingShell ) project is born. And in just few days i'v gotten suprisingly far. The system runs in DOS and is written using FreeBASIC and C (djgpp) compilers.
At the moment I have pre-emptieve threading and dynamic program loading. But there's alot of work ahead and I'm searching for some people who would be interested in helping out with such a project. The first "proof of concept" version is released on FreeBasic forum in this thread: http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3285
it's really not much -just two very simple programs ( both written and compiled in freebasic -so there's no scripting or any of that sort. It's real programs ) And they both run in theyr own thread.
I want to extend this project into more usuable DOS shell that can run programs and stuff.
all comments and ideas are welcome.
in recent days I'v got interested in an "OS" programming and decided to give it a go and thus FBOS ( FreeBasicOperatingShell ) project is born. And in just few days i'v gotten suprisingly far. The system runs in DOS and is written using FreeBASIC and C (djgpp) compilers.
At the moment I have pre-emptieve threading and dynamic program loading. But there's alot of work ahead and I'm searching for some people who would be interested in helping out with such a project. The first "proof of concept" version is released on FreeBasic forum in this thread: http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3285
it's really not much -just two very simple programs ( both written and compiled in freebasic -so there's no scripting or any of that sort. It's real programs ) And they both run in theyr own thread.
I want to extend this project into more usuable DOS shell that can run programs and stuff.
all comments and ideas are welcome.
Reminds me of waay back when when CGI Joe wrote a multi-tasking "print a/b" demo in qb with an ASM pmode routine.