Oh wow someone actually posted this! Thanks a lot for the comments and criticisms guys, really means lot to me. Before I go I'll answer some questions, so ask them away!
I have one question: While I can read and understand each individual line of code you wrote (go Crystal!) and what each method does, etc., I’m at a total loss for how you knew what and how to build - big picture wise. Can you share a bit about your process for building the mental model of this? How do you know where to start, what modules to build, what’s needed / what’s already there, etc? What roadmap (if any) are you using?
I’m just amazed at how something like this comes together and would love to learn a bit more about the process a single dev uses to build it.
Thanks in advance!
Currently it's pretty barren driver-wise, I currently have a FAT16 driver, a keyboard/mouse driver, some basic code to handle core architecture hardware and that's it. I really want to have CDROM support, a network driver (ne2k or e1000), an audio driver (sound blaster?) and an actual file system.
My roadmap is go with the flow. If I want a text editor, I'll focus on building a text editor. If I want to play doom I'll port doom (but I dont so I won't :^)
I very much look forward to reading through the code and learning more about it.
It's cleaner than a solid 90% of the code I've read over the years :)
- Any plan to release ISO for us to quickly run it in our local system?
The compiler also generates a null-terminated array of pointers pointing to the offsets of global variables.
No iso images yet, I haven't implemented iso9660 filesystem support, but it's coming soon?
2. Any other project ideas you are toying around with?
Kudos and cheers!