QBasic New Zealand

[oracle]

Thanks nath!

[LooseCaboose]

Are you studying OSes at canty, loosecaboose?

Yeah, Im actually still an undergrad (last year), but Im doing the OS porting project for my university and already have a supervisor who has agreed to help with postgrad studies focusing on operating systems.

[Zack]

oracle, Web1000 sucks. Big time.

Let's see...What would you want (Other than money) that I could give you for some hosting...

[oracle]

Let's see...What would you want (Other than money) that I could give you for some hosting...

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Kill Hex :rotfl:

Seriously, I have just discovered that freewebs considers any site younger that 7 days old a "provisional" site, thus has preventing me from uploading anything larger than 750K, and has prevented me from uploading executables. However, I can upload zip files and they download fine, if you want to move there.

To get hosted where I am (if you want to know the name pm me and do not reveal it unless I do) I would probably have to do some serious ass kissing... So you would probably have to advertise my site as the qbasic site.

Loose: Have you produced any working (even alpha) versions of QBasic OSes? Do you want to submit them to my site? Perhaps if you are developing an os a project page?

[Hexadecimal Disaster]

Obviously you aren't aware that some people knows me as the Stealth Assasin.

[oracle]

I'm not dead yet. And I know you aren't yet, but now you will have to live in eternal fear :wink:

C'mon everyone, I haven't seen any source code yet! Don't you want to be famous??? :wink:

[LooseCaboose]

Have you produced any working (even alpha) versions of QBasic OSes?

Err no, there is no such thing as an operating system written in Qbasic. Neither the language nor the compiler tools have what it takes to be able to produce a real operating system. Remember an OS is not a GUI that allows you to that lets you run a few scripted programs together (which is what most "QB OSes" on the web do.

In fact the closest an operating system (by itself) comes to providing any interaction with the user is by providing the read and write system calls, which are used by the shell (or at a higher level by the GUI) to provide an interactive environment. C's printf function makes the write system call with stdout as the file descriptor for example.

Most of what a real operating system does is hardware and resource management (which QB doesnt do very well at all) and providing layers of abstraction, such as system calls for common functions.

You could make some simulations of operating system components with QB, such as a scheduler or message passer, but it would be kind of pointless really, cause if you really want to learn about operating systems, you need to learn C and assembler (And lots about the architecture you are working with).

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Well I like NZ and QB.

So I can't imagine a better combination.

[oracle]

Well I like NZ and QB.

So I can't imagine a better combination.

Cool!

Loose: you should look at GIMI, then you'll know what I mean. Just search "Qbasic OS" and go to some page that has GIMI (most QB OS sites will have this). but I'll take it that you haven't bothered making an OS for QB. Have you got any QBasic source you would like to see hosted on a New Zealand website (not that that's much of a benefit on the web but I can stick a 'made in New Zealand' sticker over your work :wink: )

Any source? From anyone? At all?

[red_Marvin]

well AFAIK GIMI is just a "dos shell" (dos shell=often described as
a program that takes dos commands and wrapps it in nice
graphical stuff)