Soso
Infrastructure
operating system
SHOW HN2019
233points
42comments
#152of 2,195 in 2019
Top 7%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
9 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.58.
Execution: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Running Doom as a test case is fun and impressive
From 2 comments
Love the test case "but can you run Doom on it?" Great work! Personally I'd like to see a homebrew OS that attempts some kind of compatibility with 16-bit Windows, with some…
mysterydip on HNNice job ozkl! Cool to see another OS being built in Qt Creator :) Your generic DOOM looks really easy-to-port, gonna try it ASAP: https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric
akling on HN
Clean, readable code
From 2 comments
That's really nice, I enjoyed reading the code.
wmu on HNThis looks like awesome work. Will be studying the source to learn about how it works. Serious code envy for people who take the time and effort to build OS'es like this. Could…
zoom6628 on HN
Requests
Explain the naming scheme inconsistency
From 1 comment
Nice work! But one question, what’s up with the naming scheme? Some functions are camel case, other are not. It seems like variables are camel case, but not all of them. And…
mruts on HN
Questions
Why 32-bit instead of 64-bit
From 1 comment
Nice. Why 32bit, not 64bit? I don't program much assembler - but after seeing how much simpler (sane) 64bit is (amd64), I'd have to be really motivated to do a hobby project in…
e12e on HN
How long it took and prior low-level knowledge
From 1 comment
This is awesome. How long did it take you and how familiar were you with the low-level details before you started?
tinktank on HN
Resources or books used
From 1 comment
Any books or other resources you used for guidance?
eterps on HN
Alternatives named
DOSBox and Wine for running 16-bit Windows
From 2 comments
Doesn't dosbox do this?
cbluth on HNAFAIK you can run 16 bit Windows programs in Wine.
jacobush on HN
winevdm 16-bit Windows emulator
From 1 comment
https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
ryacko on HN