SaturnOS / News: Recent posts

Yes, we're getting a kernel, so SaturnOS will become truly independent of DOS. If you can program Assembler, PLEASE HELP!!!!! The specifications are on the project homepage - see the Home Page link above.

Recently we acquired a new toy: Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, which Microsoft has recently made free (as in beer).

We have installed FreeDOS on a virtual machine with 16mB of RAM and a 150mB hard drive so we have some space to breathe.

The first 'full' release of SaturnOS will use an installer similar to that of FreeDOS.

We are contemplating using Curses to program GooBox in C++. More news as it comes.

A major rewrite of the source code is taking place - this will help to streamline the code, trying to separate the source into more manageable components, and organising code into zipped source files. SaturnOS 0.2.0.0 (codenamed Iapetus) will be ready soon...

We've now got interactivity working properly, and will upload the first 'useful' (ha!) version of SaturnOS shortly.

Well, we've got interactivity (after a fashion) in the SaturnOS prompt.

It's not exactly good - no commands work and it loops back to "Bad command or file name". This will be fixed before I release again. At the moment to exit you have to hit Control+C.

0.1.0.1 has a prompt, but no interactivity. The halt() function is called after the user enters anything.

The files uploaded are Win32 exes and a C++ file.

The first files have been uploaded - a binary (not compatible with DOS but works under Win32) and the C++ source file. I suggest you compile this with TurboC++.

The reason xpr has been added to the file names is that it has no prompt (X=no PRompt). The prompts are coming soon...

Well, the boot sequence is working... after a fashion. All it does is ring the system bell and check the processor's integrity.

Now work will begin on the command prompt and several in-built commands - like bomatic (to launch the file manager) halt (shuts down the system) and tardis (change the system time - as soon as I work out the time functions...)

The newly-compiled CBase (no command prompt yet) will be uploaded for you to download and play with shortly.

Yay! The Sourceforge site is FINALLY up. Here we will provide binaries and source for SaturnOS. The first alpha code will appear shortly.