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VolantOS - An operating system made with Volant (Check the jam section)

Okay, so I'm sure you have all seen ReplOS a while back. I decided to give OS Dev another shot, except this time I'm using a jam language (Volant)!
I'm not part of the team of Volant but it seems like a neat low level language.

What this is

This isn't one of those fake operating systems you see that simply chain a bunch of if statements together, this is a real functioning operating system you can compile and run on a physical computer!
~~I installed QEMU(x86 emulator) on the repl so you can simply press run and see how limited it is right now.~~ ~~NO LONGER WORKS ON REPL, REPL BROKE QEMU~~
Fixed it yay they work again!

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Always nice to see more OSDev!

SILENCE DOOKU!!

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Yeah I like OS Dev. (proceeds to hide piles of raspberry pies for programming)

yeah its always interesting! proceeds to hide failed repls

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that was funny

ok

(akward silence intensifies)

Why don't things like this get more attention?

I'm starting to think people are more likely to upvote familiar faces versus impressive repls.

This is the second time I've upvoted him; C sharp never directly tells anyone to upvote his post, but I know the difference between quality and not (no offense to you by any means)

I can barely tolerate reading repl talk just because someone that makes a cycles celebration gets like 40+ upvotes free for doing almost nothing at all.

I spend so much time making decently sized repls and they never get that many upvotes.

Meanwhile everyone else just steady churns out easy and fast projects everyone's already seen before and get tons of upvotes every time.

Honestly, at the rate of this post, it might hit trending

Agreed! Sometimes you see some cool projects where it's apparent lots of work have gone into them (i.e, this, the Sliders game a little while ago) but a lot of the time it's just simple projects made by someone who already has tons of cycles. And because of that, everyone upvotes.

, I don't think you should care about cycles that much though... Also, would you consider me someone who churns cycles?

The ReplDB client looks nice. But like when cycle celebrations paired with some art generated by code or something gets more upvotes than something that took an entire day of constant debugging it is hard not to care about cycles.

, i see, i understand, thanks for the feedback!

thanks and...you are maybe right i worked on that project for 2 hours..
but that doesn't mean that all of my posts just get 40 upvote just like that
some posts that i spend weeks working on got literally no upvotes but others that i made in hours get a hundred it is just luck you should not be very obsessed by upvotes because (by experience) you are going to be very demotivated very fast ;)

its fate's choice who gets the 40 upvotes, but someone will 👀

lol no it's luck :)
and some cycles

That is true, it seems like you just have to have the right post at the right time (i.e, when lots of people are checking) to get cycles. Once you get on the hot board, it's a snowball effect — getting the cycles puts you on the hot board, which gives you more cycles, which keeps you on the hot board...

TRUE but i thing i start understanding how to get a lot of upvotes..

fancy titles
share it when everyone is not sleeping aka the afternoon
and be kind in the comments because sometimes people upvote just because you are nice with them and they can unupvote just because you are not kind with them

@fuzzyastrocat

Oh no, is that last bullet point directed at me... whoops sorry

oh no i don't mean anyone with the last one lol

Oh ok sorry lol

:D

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Heres some more tips lol https://repl.it/talk/learn/How-to-get-a-million-upvotes-python/29511/121164

Wdym

@behavingEffort

seems about right

not working stuck at Booting

Still boots faster than a Windows.

Should I even try to get python running on one of these?

It would be pretty hard, but it would be really cool! Even if it's just a sort of proto-python, it would still be worth it in my opinion.

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makes bootable usb stick with ISO

volant is <3

Heya, How would I full screen?

Error:
qemu-system-i386: error while loading shared libraries: libbrlapi.so.0.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
exit status 127

For some reason repl recently started refusing to run qemu and everything I've tried hasn't fixed it.

I fixed it! LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:. in main.sh

Me: Let's try some OS dev..
Me: Finds this
Me: Ok.. lets look at the code
Me: AAAAAA.. drowns in awe

Hi! Seems the BIOS is having a hard time booting the ROM

please fix as it looks really cool

You, my friend, could be on to something big.

This is too late, but what language do you use to make an operating system? (Except Volant)

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C & asm

@prestondev1repl

kewl

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?

@prestondev1repl

kewl === cool

DungeonMaster00

hint: if you are using ubuntu moving the mouse in the os screen will be much cleaner

i know because i recently made a bootable usb stick

For a second I thought you made Volant, and you were self advertising. So glad you didn't.

Hi! Quick question... Can I download and run this on my computer? I'm on Windows 10.

I think bochs has a windows download, vmware might work

DungeonMaster00

i really need to make one of these someday

Hey this looks awesome, and I can't understand half the code but just wanted to let you know, I got this error

should be fixed now

I am back and I have started to work on my own OS. I used your repl OS as a template and I am making good work on the python inteprator too. For your repl os template, how would I be able to run other C files? I want to make it so you can type in the shell: RUN myprog.c; Thank you if you can help.

If you mean in the OS itself, unless you feel like writing your own C compiler or even a C interpreter you wont be able to do that. The closest you can get is calling a function when its used with certain hardwired parameters.

ok. Then how will I be able to run another compiled file. For example in kernal the user will do something and because of that action it will run another compiled script(kernal1)

Compile it as a flat binary and find some way of loading it into memory, or give it their own unique main functions and compile it with the kernel

Hey here's a new challenge for you- make the CPython interpreter into an OS

Can you get an OS to run python. That would be a life saver if someone figured that out. My language runs of python

Python has no way of addressing memory on its own, and it's interpreted.

I know that. I was just wondering if someone could put C on the O.S. and then put python on top of that because python was made on C. I would do it myself but it has been so long since I worked with assembly.

You would have to write a whole new interpreter that used 0 standard libraries.

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SoƧ

This is CRAZY! Absolutely amazing.

You think we could work together and make one in C?
I have attempted before but gave up, I would love to try it again!!

@targetfanttthat

Yeah

Correction, it doesn't have to be in C, it can be in a language you're comfortable with as well!
And just let me know when you want to start, I am real interested into this type of stuff and I am pretty much available all week, so just let me know when you're ready and I'll be ready to learn/do some OSDev!

@targetfanttthat

I'm ready whenever you're ready, I don't really have anything else to do rn

Oh alrighty then. Lets do it right now then..quick question, what language are we doing it in?

@targetfanttthat

What are you best at?

I write C 99% of the time, but I came to you so whatever you prefer!

@targetfanttthat

C it is