x16-PRos (real mode OS)

[tardy flume]

haha wow! is this complete?

or mostly there?

I love a small little real-mode OS

[quartz cape]

I am updating it. For example, now it is version 0.4, but I am already working on version 0.5. It is already possible to use. I tested it on several computersона рабI am updating it. For example, now it is version 0.4, but I am already working on version 0.5. It is already usable. I tested it on several computers and it works

[tardy flume]

I think your website's image file might be corrupted or something

QEMU can't boot it

[quartz cape]

Maybe

Let me test it...

[tardy flume]

it fails both with -hda and -cdrom, might wanna check that out

[quartz cape]

That's strange

Try -fda

[tardy flume]

works fine 👍

might wanna update the command on the homepage 👍

[quartz cape]

Yay

[tardy flume]

do you plan to get some "userspace" support for program writing

maybe port/write a small assembler?

oh wait you have bf lol, nice

[quartz cape]

In the previous version 0.3 there was a BASIC support, but I remove it because the implementation was very poor.

[tardy flume]

I think your snake game has a bug

lol, I'm not trying to break your system, I think that little real-mode OS's like this are very charming and fun, but I just ran into an issue

nevermind it works fine now, huh

woah, these are pretty neat, definitely a "x86 real mode" moment

awesome project!!!! I'm excited to hear more from it!!!!!

[quartz cape]

Thank you so much!

[quartz cape]

Several of my subscribers have started doing libc for my OS

I recently started working with them.

Several modules are already completed. Now we are working on the stdio.h

[hexed bone]

@quartz cape why did you create a new thread instead of using the existing one?

[quartz cape]

Idk

We made printf. It supports all types of data including float and double.

[hushed rover]

cool !

[sudden spoke]

bro just use stdio.h

[quartz cape]

You can't just take someone else's implementation, since each OS has its own peculiarities. Its own API, its own memory management and etc.

[sudden spoke]

ik i was joking

[quartz cape]

Guys check it out - PS/2 mouse driver

[hushed rover]

cool

but wait

it's a true driver or you use bios interrupt ?

[quartz cape]

For now I use BIOS in this driver, but not everywhere

[hushed rover]

so it's not a driver the actual driver is in the bios

still cool tought

[gritty remnant]

how laggy is it

[quartz cape]

Small, almost imperceptible flickering

[gritty remnant]

damn

[blissful barn]

Is this in c?

[hushed rover]

nop it's in asm

[blissful barn]

X86?

[blissful barn]

Is it on github?

[hushed rover]

yes

[hushed rover]

yes

[blissful barn]

Noice

[quartz cape]

Paint program

[devout estuary]

this is nice, do like a good real mode os

[quartz cape]

I made BMP images rendering!

[devout estuary]

nice!

[quartz cape]

I improved the info menu by adding ASCII art and also improved the CPU info

[quartz cape]

Added display of remaining disk space and disk letter to the DIR command

[quartz cape]

Pong game

[quartz cape]

Hello everyone!

I recently completed the playback of IMF files in my OS.

IMF is a music file format, which is a set of instructions for the ADlib sound card, which was developed by id Software for use in games such as Doom and Wolfenstein 3D.

The format itself is super cool:

• Lightweight
• Cool sound quality

But there is no way to convert MP3 to IMF. The formats are too different. So either take music from old games, or write it ourselves using special programs.

I will try to implement support for WAW and MP3, but for now you can listen to the sound of that very IMF file.

I apologize in advance for the loud sound of the PC Speaker at startup. It can be turned off.

I also make the new help menu

All that remains is to fix the bugs in the system API and we can start working on the graphical interface

Although, we still need to make a custom font

Oh, I also need something like "autoexec.bin"

[mellow seal]

haha cool

[hushed rover]

oh yes

and script version too

[hushed rover]

very cool

[quartz cape]

Thanks!

New commands

GREP - search text in the file
HEAD - print first 10 lines of a txt file
TAIL - print last 10 lines of a txt file

[hushed rover]

add markdown support so you can view your docs :D

[quartz cape]

Oh, that's great idea!

[hushed rover]

does HEAD/tail support -n ?
and does grep support regex

[quartz cape]

No...

[hushed rover]

have you think of porting/creating an assembler

so you could dev the OS under itself !

modify kernel
assemble
replace KERNEL.BIN

[quartz cape]

I plan to port FASM

And I also want to make BASIC

[hushed rover]

cool

should be easy

[devout estuary]

tail -f support when?

[hushed rover]

what is that ?

[devout estuary]

continue to follow the end of the file until Ctrl c

[hushed rover]

oh cool

how usefull it is ?

• does it work on head ?

[devout estuary]

no because you don't append to the head

it's very useful for following logs as new lines get added

[hushed rover]

oh cool i'm gonna do that

[quartz cape]

I'm starting to work on directory support. Now the root directory won't be filled with a bunch of files.

Everything will be nicely laid out in folders:

• configs
• programs
• games
• images

I also make upscale for BMP images.

[hushed rover]

cool

[hushed rover]

what do i need to build the OS ?

oh nasm and mtools

is there a way i can just not use mtools and instead put file on a mounted fat32 partition ?

[digital nymph]

you should just get mtools its really not that big

[hushed rover]

where is the git repo ?

i can find it on google i guess

[hushed rover]

also i want to do a multiboot of this thing

so i need to use an already existant image

image which is already mounted

[digital nymph]

if you're using debian/ubuntu its sudo apt install mtools,
if you're using macOS it's brew install mtools,
if you're using arch linux it's sudo pacman -S mtools

[hushed rover]

no i want to build from source

i hope it won't be to complicated

[digital nymph]

...why though

[hushed rover]

i want to try building an OS from with in my OS

and this seem like a good candidate

[digital nymph]

oh...

[hushed rover]

i'm cooked

mtools is in python

wait

i'm on the wrong mtools

[digital nymph]

bahahahAHAHHAHHAH

[hushed rover]

the source cod is only 511kb with a bit of hope it can hapoend

nl_langinfo 😭 i") afraid

[hushed rover]

oh mtools compile

i'll try commpiling this os this evening

[quartz cape]

I make little icons for the terminal

And the program, to create these icons

x16-PRos (real mode OS)

[quartz cape]

In theory, this program can be ported to the OS itself

[digital nymph]

oh thats epix

[hushed rover]

do it !

[quartz cape]

There is only one problem: these sparkles are not displayed at the cursor position, but only at the specified coordinates, and I do not understand how to make them appear at the cursor location.

We need to solve this problem, and then start making a graphical interface.

[hushed rover]

why ?

[digital nymph]

gui in real mode seems like a bad idea

a TUI with tiling windows wouldnt be bad though

(floating windows are complicated, especially for real mode)

[short willow]

editing bitmaps in text mode?

[quartz cape]

Now when you start the OS, this logo will be displayed

[hushed rover]

cool

does it scale

[quartz cape]

Nah

[hushed rover]

sad

maybee you should made so it scale on big screen

[steel plank]

cant wait 0.5

[quartz cape]

I'll say this: the new version won't be released anytime soon.

[quartz cape]

PRos 0.5 is the biggest update of this OS

I making it about the 4 mounts

[steel plank]

and u done only 30%

that's will be insane...

[quartz cape]

Yah

[quartz cape]

PRos ricing

[steel plank]

insane

[quartz cape]

I need the new CFG file

THEME.CFG

Then the OS will become fully customizable in terms of color palette.

[quartz cape]

Finally fixed file system API

2 new commands have been added:

• THEME - Change the theme
• SETUP - Go through the system setup again

[short willow]

why would you go through setup a second time

no settings program?

[quartz cape]

Yes. It's easier to run the setup again than to write an entire, albeit simple, program.

[short willow]

questionable but ight

[quartz cape]

ISO image creation has been added to the build script, as not all computers can correctly work with an IMG image written to a flash drive.

[quartz cape]

Added AutoExec

[quartz cape]

You can suggest ideas for programs, utilities, or even OS improvements. Just don't suggest anything too complicated; I write everything in assembly, after all :]

By the way, I'm thinking about adding support for .COM programs

[devout estuary]

dblspace

[short willow]

add fork()

[devout estuary]

[short willow]

that fork as well

[short willow]

spear

[devout estuary]

zeroek

[quartz cape]

I am developing a new website for the project

For comparison, here's what it looked like before.

[short willow]

add actual UEFI support

cool tho

[quartz cape]

There is no way to add EFI support to a real-mode OS.

[short willow]

fair

[hushed rover]

well maybee it's possible

return to 16 real mode

and when you access hardware use actual driver in 32 bits mode

ghrn go back to 16 once finish

[quartz cape]

Neofetch-like program

[steel plank]

its more of an emulator

i think

[digital nymph]

how would you emulate? If you were to try and emulate it on x16-PRos you would need to store things in 16 bits, while uefi uses 64 and 32 bits

[steel plank]

idk

[quartz cape]

It would be nice to add memory usage here, but I don't know how to do that in real mode

[quartz cape]

SETUP is now a standalone program. Previously, it was part of the core.

Also now APM is used for shutdown and restart

[devout estuary]

APM? that still exists?

[quartz cape]

Here are the final system requirements for the OS

[devout estuary]

ohhh I dunno, 64k, too rich for my tastes, where do you get so much ram

[gritty remnant]

Why is the maximum a 486?

I have an i686 box that could probably run this

[thick wedge]

cant uefi emulate the bios?

[short willow]

no without csm it cant

[thick wedge]

i see

[hushed rover]

i think you could

you get back to real mofr

and make a protected mode wrapper

around uefi function

[short willow]

fair

[quartz cape]

Configuring the Command Line Prompt

Now, using the config, you can create your own command line prompt. Everything is stored in the PROMPT.CFG file.

Supported:

• Displaying simple ASCII characters
• Displaying pseudographics
• Displaying the username

Here's how to work with the config:

If you need something simple, for example, one ASCII character, the config will look like this:

>

If you need the username in the prompt, use this:

$username >

And if you need a pseudographic character that isn't on the keyboard, use this:

%FE %10

After %, write the ASCII code of the character.

[quartz cape]

I'll soon add a new config (THEME.CFG) and the terminal will become fully customizable.

[devout estuary]

you didn't go with just an env var like DOS?

looks flexible though

[quartz cape]

I like configs more

[quartz cape]

Finally have a working implementation of directories (folders). There are a couple of bugs, but I`ll fix them.

[quartz cape]

Real hardware testing

The OS is running from a flash drive

Everything works fine

[gritty remnant]

x16-PRos x86_64?

[quartz cape]

Yes

It's a small mistake, but who cares?

[devout estuary]

does this make it an 80 bit operating system?

64+16? lol

[gritty remnant]

use fpu registers as gprs

[devout estuary]

I'm curious, whats the meaning of the dog in the logo

[quartz cape]

This is just my dog. I decided to use it as the project logo.

[devout estuary]

cute dog

[quartz cape]

Thanks!

[quartz cape]

I made better IMF player

I also made new theme config file: you can change any color in the PRos using RGB

[steel plank]

класс

[quartz cape]

A couple more songs in PRos:

• SONIC.IMF from the Sonic game
• Hoopes & Dreams from Undertale

[eager burrow]

8086/8088 operating systems always HATE CD-ROM

also

HDA not working is something he needs to check

that means it won't really work on any hard drive (which is fine for 8086/8088 and is actually normal.. even MS/PC-DOS ended up not caring for other storage devices for a long time)

only diskettes (floppies)

FS & GS data segments do not exist on 8086/8088
-# I am sorry if I am being a pain or something..

also don't enable interrupts in the boot sector/record

interrupts like causing a nuclear fallout when using int 13h, which may lead to failed disk access (if writing / reading) / corrupted sectors that you attempted to access (if writing)

cool project

I like it

I like 8086/8088 stuff

[quartz cape]

I need to add Russian language support

[eager burrow]

No you dont

[quartz cape]

Send me some cool .mid music please

I will convert it to .imf and test it on my OS

[devout estuary]

i can send you some later

[short willow]

passport.mid

[quartz cape]

Somehow, the Windows 3.1 MIDI driver worked on my OS, so now I have a MIDI player. The MIDI driver is proprietary, though. I'll still need to write my own.

[short willow]

absolute rush e

👍

it sounds like the tetris theme remix for some reason

[quartz cape]

New version! 5 months later!

x16-PRos v0.5 is out. The changelog is enormous.

Some of the changes:

• More than 10 bugs fixed
• Added user system with password encryption
• Support for multimedia formats (IMF, BMP)
• New programs
• Added the ability to work with directories
• Fixes that make the OS work on almost all CSM-compatible computers
• Customization

Source code: https://github.com/PRoX2011/x16-PRos
Full changelog: https://github.com/PRoX2011/x16-PRos/blob/main/docs/changes/v0.5.txt

[short willow]

bee m pee

[eager burrow]

WOAH

BMP

BEE M PEE

[dense holly]

The logo was made by me, btw

[quartz cape]

Yes, that`s true

[quartz cape]

Created a Telegram channel and chat for communication, news and suggestions

https://t.me/PRoXChannelEN

[thick wedge]

you should make a discord server

in my opinion

(if you dont already have one)

[short willow]

prox

[quartz cape]

yes?

[short willow]

idk

https://tenor.com/view/drunk-tipsy-slip-gif-13181667

telegram is based tho

[eager burrow]

Telegram is not based

it no sigma

[short willow]

https://tenor.com/view/die-spongebob-meme-gif-754776035690869996

[eager burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/blox-fruits-blue-lock-meme-tuff-mango-gif-18047942390642216707

[quartz cape]

Video review. It's in Russian. Use subtitles.

https://youtu.be/EZqW3T1RKGw?si=4ejtTuRKquEqva1M

[short willow]

i dont need any subtitles

[eager burrow]

This OS will die on the 8086 or 8088

And 80186

Works for the 80286,80386, and above

[quartz cape]

Hello everyone!

x16-PRos has received a major website update.

The biggest change is the documentation. I've tried to describe everything: how to run it (on an emulator and real hardware), how to use the API, and the available terminal commands. I've added the first program examples (I'll be gradually adding more) and updated the visuals to make the site more user-friendly.

Website link: http://x16-pros.prosdev.org/ (temporarily http, coming soon to https)

Advertising space is now available on the site at reasonable prices. Perfect for various IT projects and public groups. For any questions, please contact me via PM

[still saffron]

yo
jump into protected mode :D
it gives you 4GB available RAM, and 32-bit registers!!
if you need, i have a script which goes into said protected mode (x32)

but... if you're not testing this in QEMU then it might just not work lol

[quartz cape]

I created a new configuration file. It allows you to:

• Mute the startup sound,
• Choose a custom image for the startup screensaver,
• Stretch the image to full screen (if its resolution is smaller than the screen resolution)

[short willow]

fire

[quartz cape]

Okay, now root looks neater:

/BIN - programs
/CONF - configs
/MUSIC - IMF music
/DOCS - tips, documentation

Programs are now executed from the BIN directory in the context of the current directory.

[quartz cape]

FINALY!!!!

[quartz cape]

Nice!

Pacman Gameplay

[still saffron]

i made this myself, do u agree OP?

[steel plank]

+1 byte

[thick wedge]

and +perfs

[quartz cape]

Hehe

[quartz cape]

I'm fed up with this. A new release is coming soon. There will be a lot of interesting stuff, but the most important thing is support for COM programs. And I understand that I'll be the only one working on the kernel. People sometimes create their own programs, and that's really cool, but basically all the development is my responsibility. There's interest in the project (1900 subscribers on YouTube, over 200 stars on GitHub), but only three of them contribute, and even then, it's not serious—not a single really important or interesting feature. They create issues on GitHub like, "My program doesn't work, please fix it." You write in the CONTRIBUTING section that it's ONLY ENGLISH IN ISSUES, but no, they still write whatever they want, without even sticking to the template.

Maybe the problem is with the OS itself? What's wrong with it? MikeOS works pretty much the same as mine, but people have contributed there, creating cool software and games.

Overall, if the situation doesn't change after the new version is released, I'll either take up developing a new OS or leave this field of activity altogether for a while.

[dense holly]

i think, i know the reason

go DM

[quartz cape]

x16-PRos v0.6-dev

I pushed a new version 0.6 into the DEV branch. The list of changes is long, but briefly:

• Improved organization of files on disk
• Added test support for COM programs
• Fixed bugs in string api and file system

https://github.com/PRoX2011/x16-PRos/tree/dev

[thick wedge]

that's probably because your os is written in assembly, and most people do prefer higher level languages like c

and yeah, nobody respects issue templates lol

[thick wedge]

also, they might not see much interest in an os for the 8086 cpu

since they would never use it on their own machine

[quartz cape]

Why?

[thick wedge]

idk ¯_(ツ)_/¯

only serious contributors do so

[quartz cape]

It's more convenient for the developer to solve the problem

[thick wedge]

yes it is

and the world would be better if everyone respected that

anyway, i have to go

[quartz cape]

I have a simple template:

• OS version
• What was expected
• What happened
• What was the OS running on

[quartz cape]

x16-PRos v0.6.1

The new version has been released! The list of changes can be read in docs/changes
In the release version, CAT was improved, and the documentation built into the system was completely updated and rewritten (DOCS/)

[short willow]

cat improvement update

[short willow]

it took me a moment to recognize that this isn't super mario world somehow

[quartz cape]

I made a wav player

[steel plank]

оно кстати работает/this works btw

[short willow]

туториал про яваскрипт (js tutorial)
работает (works)

[steel plank]

оно реально работает но это не ява скрипт там на простом ассемблере легче

кайф

[thick wedge]

what

[hexed bone]

English please!

[quartz cape]

More music! Wavplay has been added to the x16-PRos repo

[short willow]

pc speaker or what

[quartz cape]

Sound Blaster

[quartz cape]

working on multiple disks support

[quartz cape]

Yeah, well done

[quartz cape]

I've implemented a way to write system logs to a file. The version has been published to the dev branch. You can try out all the latest features.

[quartz cape]

I made a better HEXEDIT and WRITER

[thick wedge]

unfortunately i cant run it on my test machine

since i dont have csm

or im too stupid to find it

[gritty remnant]

i like the nano-like editor lol

[agile tangle]

Wow, this OS is a lot of hard work

i like it very

btw, i wanted to ask, how you load programs from a sector of the disk. because when i simply jump to a specific adress in memory to load my program and then jump back to my kernel adress, i cant load the programs again. because it shows a disk error. that is pretty annoying because you always have to restart the vm

[quartz cape]

I made a simple TUI program launcher. Works fine even in the real hardware

[quartz cape]

The first of all, I had a file system in my OS. In your situation you maybe should save registers and kernel segment state before runing program.

[agile tangle]

is it difficult to make or implement a filesystem?

[thick wedge]

it depends on the fs

[agile tangle]

I dont have the stack defined, maybe this is the problem? But I dont know how to do that.

I defined it in the bootloader as sp = 0x7c00 but this is for the kernel, right? So that doesnt matter i guess.

[hushed rover]

most of the time the kernel them setup it's own stack

[thick wedge]

the kernel should reload its segments and stack

[agile tangle]

how do i do that?

every time i try, the OS crashes after executing a program

[thick wedge]

sam as you do in the bootloader

(we should move to #programming or #1474418546225320121 i think)

[agile tangle]

okay

[quartz cape]

x16-PRos now has support of different timezones

[thick wedge]

cool

[quartz cape]

thx

[quartz cape]

Check out the dev branch if u want

[quartz cape]

It took me three days, but what a result! Full support for cp866 and .FNT fonts for this encoding system-wide. By default, the image includes four fonts, but you can add your own 8x16 fonts from old DOS, for example. Plus, there's a TUI program and configuration file for configuration.

[hexed bone]

nice!

[quartz cape]

Thanks!

[quartz cape]

Pushed all the new features to the dev branch. Added support for sub-directories and a new terminal theme.

[thick wedge]

bro is cooking that 16-bit sh*t

[agile tangle]

im reading the disk.asm file of MikeOS and it is exactly the same as your fs.asm file

[thick wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/is-there-an-issue-laura-noury-always-jane-do-you-have-a-problem-something-wrong-with-that-gif-23769481

[quartz cape]

You r wrong, lol. Similar function names, but completely different code

I am going to do a 0.8 release soon

So

Check the dev branch, I need your feedback

New OS project for raspberry pi 3 btw

[quartz cape]

MikeOS don't even have a directory support

And it haven't multiple disks support

Look closely to the source code

[quartz cape]

Say hello to the 0.8!

The new version 0.8 has been released after almost a month of development!

The changes affected both developers and users.

There's a long story here about the changes, so please read the changelog and release notes.

I'll be waiting for your feedback :]

https://github.com/PRoX2011/x16-PRos/releases/tag/v0.8

[agile tangle]

no its exactly the same. and string.asm is copied too

[agile tangle]

yeah i know, you added your own functions, but there is a lot copied

im not saying it is bad, do it if you want, because mikeOS is opensource

[frozen atlas]

in fairness I followed a guide for writing a bootloader once that was nearly identical to the mikeOS bootloader and the x16 bootloader (iirc), it's probably just a common way of doing things

[quartz cape]

So these are default functions that are more or less the same in all operating systems.

[thick wedge]

light mode

[agile tangle]

thats the default of github

i changed it to dark mode

[devout estuary]

light mode github, the way it was meant to be viewed

😄

[quartz cape]

Wow, I didn't think the code from the assembler forum had this origin.

I wish I could find a link to the code I borrowed from the forum. That was almost a year ago.

[agile tangle]

what assembly forum?

[quartz cape]

I don't remember, I told you it was a long time ago. By the way, I looked closely and the code is still different. The author of the code on the forum changed the cmp to test

Website update

A new news tab has been added to the project's website. I'll be posting about new features there from now on.

http://x16-pros.prosdev.org/

And now you can download old version of x16-PRos

[quartz cape]

Hi everyone!

Well, I have some very interesting news.

Starting with version 0.9, x16-PRos will support *.EXE(MZ) executable files. These are the very programs and games from MS-DOS.

At the moment, I've written several functions for the compatibility layer that allow running programs and games up to 450kib in size. Now I'm thinking about how to expand these limits, and from there it's not far to DOOM.

In the screenshots I'm running some games, namely:

• Alley Cat
• Bruce Lee
• Road Fighter

And hello world, what else.

[agile tangle]

if you do the command hello and then give it a argument the whole OS would restart and then stop here:

thats a little bug

btw this happens if you type in a wrong command and then give it an argument

i tested your OS a little bit

[quartz cape]

I know about this, fixing this rn

[quartz cape]

This feature was pushed into the dev branch. And there is new syscall for writing big files.

Now I need to optimize the kernel size a little bit

[stark mountain]

Прокс англичанин

теперь

[stark mountain]

Офигеть ты игры добавил

Так красочно

А как это все рендерится?

[hexed bone]

English, pelase!

[quartz cape]

Это режим MS-DOS совместимости

This is MS-DOS compatibility mode.

Игры можно скачать из интернета (например с old DOS), а уже потом в системе запустить. По умолчанию их нету в образе.

Games can be downloaded from the internet (for example, from old DOS), and then run on the system. By default, they are not included in the disk image.

[quartz cape]

Есть такое

I am sorry for non-English guys

[stark mountain]

Nu tipa coroche imba

[hexed bone]

@stark mountain @quartz cape please speak English!

This is an English-speaking server.

If you wanna speak Russian, take it to a Russian-speaking server or to DMs.

[quartz cape]

Fine.

[quartz cape]

I made 7 new themes for the terminal

[dense holly]

The purple one is a bit quirky

[thick wedge]

first one looks like ubuntu 😭

[quartz cape]

I have a specific Ubuntu theme for the terminal since 0.5 btw)

Old photo, but anyway, you can check it yourself

[stable kelp]

cool!

[hexed bone]

nice!

@quartz cape Btw, how much of this is taken from or inspired by MikeOS? I noticed some similarities, but no attribution.

[hexed bone]

On an unrelated note, I notice you do mov sp, 0xFFFF.

[quartz cape]

I looked how the loading of programs and the file system were implemented there. Just because I was not too experienced in OS development. I didn't like everything else. I ended up writing the file system myself (to support directories), and the program loading logic also changed.

Now, The level of inspiration from this system is simply as minimal as possible. As I said, The string manipulation functions were taken from a forum and I recently learned about the origin of these functions.. But yeah, I need to leave a link to the original in the file.

[quartz cape]

So, the inspiration is present, but practically no code was taken. Only a couple of functions from the forum.

[quartz cape]

Is there a problem?

[hexed bone]

Yes, this stack is misaligned. You should do mov sp, 0, as push decrements sp before writing to the stack.

[quartz cape]

I got it, thank you, will be fixed

[hexed bone]

Out of curiosity, which forum did you take it from?

[quartz cape]

It was about 1 year ago, I don't remember

10 months actually

[hexed bone]

I've looked into the source code more closely, and quite a lot of code seems to be taken. This is especially apparent in version 0.4, the one to introduce file system support. Not only is the directory structure and memory layout very similar to MikeOS (tho the latter could be coincidence, I haven't looked too closely), the fs.asm from version 0.4 definitely took substantial portions of code from MikeOS disk.asm.

you can also tell that the portions you added have comments

while the portions taken from disk.asm have comments stripped

etc ...

[quartz cape]

Yes, a lot of code was taken from disk.asm at that time. Obviously, it was wrong of me, but I ended up reimplementing most of the borrowed functions in newer versions. At that time I simply had no experience in this, so I looked at other people’s things.

So I ask you to accept my apology for all of this.

[hexed bone]

It's fine to look at other people's things, and borrow code, as long as you do proper attribution and don't violate copyright.

[quartz cape]

Now I've improved and I do it completely myself. I gained experience, so this hasn't happened at all since then.

[hexed bone]

While the current version of fs.asm is substantially rewritten, there's still a lot of traces of the original.

So at the very least give some attribution and comply with the license terms of the Mike OS license.

Which I believe is a BSD3 license

[quartz cape]

I don't want other people's licenses in my project at all, this is one of the reasons why I rewrote my FS implementation

[hexed bone]

Well, I'm sorry, but as it stands now, your project is probably violating MikeOS copyright.

[quartz cape]

Then I will completely change the code from 0.4

[hexed bone]

It's not 0.4, but also the current version.

While it is rewritten, it's probably still a derivative work.

There's still some similarities visible even now.

[quartz cape]

What I'm saying is that these similarities are coming to the new versions from 0.4, the new code is mine, but it grows around the old one.

[hexed bone]

Yeah, then we are in agreement that all versions since 0.4 that currently exist need to attribute MikeOS and comply with the terms of their license.

Look, the BSD license is very permissive, it's not hard to comply with it.

[quartz cape]

I wouldn't call it a complete dependence, since initially only a small amount was taken.

[hexed bone]

doesn't matter

idk what you call small

[quartz cape]

Okay, fine

I'll move my thread to the "no AI" channel for now.

[hexed bone]

Very convenient timing ...