Submitted by A new release of Visopsys.
This release consists of hardware support updates and bugfixes, with particular focus on USB. Support for USB 2 controllers and devices has been added.
More details in the changelog.
A new release of Visopsys.
This release consists of hardware support updates and bugfixes, with particular focus on USB. Support for USB 2 controllers and devices has been added.
More details in the changelog.
You must shoot the moon on GPU support and other hardware with drivers too.
Shooting the moon comes from a card game. In the game, if you get all the bad cards you get a huge bonus. If you don’t get ALL of the cards, you lose big.
I stick to just 640×480 16 colors. This is the maximum you can do for a 60fps game with no GPU.
Mine is 64-bit and I wrote a compiler.
That guy seems to be doing to zombie-monkey walk — completely what you’d guess someone to do, fighting the last war.
BEOS had a file system idea. I have ideas. I cheaper Linux is worthless. Nobody cares about the price of Windows, even. An inferior Windows is worthless. Be radically different.
I decided to be real. Use my IN ADDITION to Windows. I am relieved of obligation to do anything you can already do with Windows.
http://www.templeos.org
I try to have as few file systems and as few drivers as possible. It’s much better not having redundancies.
Edited 2013-08-27 23:34 UTC
I’ve used Visopsys, and it’s a very good and interesting operating system. Furthermore, the Visopsys developer never spams OS News stories with off-topic rants promoting his OS, so I like him better as a person.
You suck and so does your operating system.
It’s too difficult to argue.
If that’s the best you can do it just means that you’re no good.
Maybe you should be more, I dunno, open-minded about other projects?
This is about Visopsys, not your OS.
They have higher than 640×480, but it’s no good without the speed of a GPU. They’re never going to have all GPUs. I am a realist and stuck to 640×480 because God said and because you can do 60fps with no GPU. Theirs is nonviable. They probably get 4fps.
A neat thing happens with a fixed size for everybody. It is joyfully simple.
Trust me. There’s a reason there are not 100 Windows rivals. Everybody does what visopsys does and it’s nonviable.
Edited 2013-08-28 08:58 UTC
TempleOS is the resident clown?
Brain damage is no laughing matter
I would say :
Everybody does what TempleOS does, even 1000 times better, and it’s nonviable.
Live in the 21st century, boy, we’re dealing with portable ARM based FullHD capable devices.
You were paid for the development of LoseThos/TempleOS in the 90’s, you decided to breach your contract, fork the sources and continue on your own. But without access to NDA datasheets anymore, God told you to stay stuck to 640×480 to not looks too shameful with your hobby OS. Find every excuses possible out of your Bible by putting words in God’s mouth, you won’t never ever fool us.
Kochise
Don’t encourage him, please…
Did I miss something, or did ParadoxUncreated finally create his Holy Operating System and change his nick to TempleOS?
That’s the same thought I voiced the last time this guy was around. The style is the same, the incoherence of thought is the same, the incapability of being able to follow conversation is the same. And frankly, I believe he never created his OS himself, he likely just lifted the code from somewhere else and tries to pose it as his own creation, considering all the utterly stupid things he has said and the complete misunderstanding of even the most basic operating system features.
I mean, just look at how he’s all so proud and magnificent by claiming to be able to run something at 640×480 at 60fps on an 8-core system; there were games doing the same thing on a 1-core system OVER A GOD DAMN DECADE ago! Little Big Adventure 2, for example, was released in ’97 and that’s 16 years ago. This guy has absolutely no grasp in reality whatsoever.
Now, what to do with him? I, personally, find him somewhat amusing. I know, I know, making fun of someone with clear delusions and mental issues is kind of a bad thing in general, but I don’t specifically seek him out for my amusement, it’s him that always initiates this kind of interaction. Perhaps he should be banned so as to reduce the amount of spam we get here, but I don’t quite like the idea of outright banning people. Perhaps limit the amount of posts he can make in a day, though, and just set them all to start at -1 so the curious ones can peek at them and the people who don’t care don’t have to see them even at a glance?
Edited 2013-08-28 11:32 UTC
Similar mental issues and meds…
That would also mean he has changed his religion and I find that rather unlikely.
USB is really difficult — so many controllers and , actually, it requires adapting to different keyboards and mice. There’s a boot-mode for keyboards and mice.
Yuck. I could not shoot the moon. There is really not much gained by USB instead of PS/2 legacy. Memory cards would be really really nice, however.
I have some priceless wisdom to share: Let’s say you make a game. You make it require a 3-button mouse. It’s awesome. Unfortunately, not every mouse is 3-button. Well, this sucks! Moral of the story? It’s insanity to have support for different hardware because nobody can write programs that count on it.
Yeah spam. You know you want it. I have priceless wisdom, if you’d shut yer trap.
Edited 2013-08-27 23:57 UTC
I may be being naive here, but isn’t it:
– OHCI
– UHCI
– EHCI (USB 2)
– XHCI (USB 3)
Once you have the PCI id matched to the controller interface type, the registers are laid out for you by the USB standard.
If I was doing an OS from scratch, USB is the first place I’d start.
It would have been nice if the article had provided a brief overview of what viopsys actually is.
The bulk of Visopsys is a fully multitasking, 100% protected mode, virtual-memory, massively-monolithic-style kernel. Added to this is a bare-bones C library and a minimal suite of applications ^aEUR” together comprising a small but reasonably functional operating system which can operate natively in either graphical or text modes. Though it’s been in continuous development for a number of years, realistically the target audience remains limited to operating system enthusiasts, students, and assorted other sensation seekers.
I think that’s a good idea for all OSAlert stories. What is it, and what is the news?
Of course, it’s also true that Visopsys has been around for over ten years, and OSAlert has featured Visopsys stories over twenty times. I would guess that most regular readers know what it is already. In fact we had this exact same discussion at the 0.7 Release.
http://www.osnews.com/comments/24444
Just like the last version, this new release crashes the entire system when attempting to run it in VirtualBox. I recall the previous version also not booting correctly on bare hardware; I’m guessing that hasn’t changed either.
I just downloaded the ISO image and ran Visopsys from a CD. The entire process worked well, the operating system booted fast, and I was able to perform basic functions like play Snake and change the desktop background.
The only thing that didn’t work like it should, I was unable to view Jpegs using the Viewer. The photo files happened to be on a USB flash drive; Visopsys correctly identified the drive and the files, but just wouldn’t open them.
This operating system is sleep walking, fighting the last war. I find nothing redeaming in a Window or Linux wannabe. If it is not radically different like BEOS from Windows or Linux, it’s retarded.
“Fighting the last war” is when one side assumes it can use the same tactics of Windows or Linux. Ford said, “If I asked people, they’d say they wanted a faster horse.”
An operating system includes a compiler. GNU/Linux. You should do UTF on everything.
Mine’s been 64-bit since 2007.
Edited 2013-08-28 08:10 UTC
Man, this dude has got serious mental issues, can he please be banned for persistent trolling?
I logged in this morning just so I could vote down his comment but they still keep coming. Jesus!
I concur.
You know what’s weird? There are people who cannot imagine anything but Windows or Linux, even simpler things. The C64 and Apple II had operating systems. DOS was an operating system. I can’t stand narrow-minded brainwashing. Our minds were meant to fly! Think of something new!
How about a MATLAB operating system or Wolfram Alpha?
TempleOS is not that awesome, but cool. Graphics in source code. Graphics on the command-line.
Edited 2013-08-28 08:19 UTC
Lack of GPU support is what kills the 100 people who have tried. There’s a reason there aren’t 100 viable Windows rivals.
This guy hasn’t supported even one GPU.
If it were possible, India , Russia, China, Germany and Brazil would all have operating systems.
Mine is viable because it is 640×480 and doesn’t need GPU. I can get 60fps on games with 8 cores. They can only get 4fps.
Edited 2013-08-28 10:05 UTC
He says it is no performant with no GPU support.
This is from the Visupsys site.
You know Picard with the 3 or 4 lights thing? Why is everyone on the Internet a psy-op reeducation staff member? Damn, nothing but brainwashing — everywhere. Liars.
Edited 2013-08-28 12:20 UTC
There are 4 lights…