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  1. Project: Dreamcast Linux

    14 August 2009 - 09:44 AM

    Hello,

    I'm sure some of you were interested in my old-computing-for-two-weeks project, which was finished a few days ago. I've been rather bored as of late, the weather's atrocious, TV is as shit-filled as usual, and I've had issues with my server/development PC which I'm gonig to deal with later.

    Anyway, I decided to what what I usually do in this sort of situation: transfer some money into my PayPal account and look on eBay.

    I transferred £32 (about 50 dollars for you yanks) and had a look. I decided to buy a Dreamcast keyboard and VGA adapter, which are on their way here.

    Why these two items? The answer is as clear as day: I was wanting to try out Dreamcast Linux again.

    I had grabbed a Live CD for the Dreamcast in 2001 but I didn't have a keyboard nor a VGA adapter for decent graphics, so I forgot about it. It just so happened today I was clearing out some old, unnecessary stuff (mainly cables) when I stumbled upon my Dreamcast. I knew I had to put it to use.

    I believe Dreamcast support is in the Linux 2.6 mainline kernel, which will help. Gentoo has a prebuilt stage3 for SH4 at releases/sh/current-stage3/ which I hope to use to create a Live CD. Failing that, I'll simply compile a kernel and bung on a basic filesystem. I'm hoping to get a basic setup working with X11 and using TWM as a WM.

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    Ordered everything, and downloading the Gentoo stage3 as of now.
  2. OnyxOS

    15 September 2008 - 03:28 PM

    This isn't a genesis related project, however, some people may consider making an OS some form of hacking, so I'll post it here anyway.

    OnyxOS is my newest project. As the name suggests, it's an operating system, based on a modular hybrid kernel also coded by me and under development for x86 and x86_64. It's UNIX-like, so Linux users should recognize a lot of how it works very quickly, the filesystem layout is similiar to the standard for UNIX-like OSs but with only virtual directories (/dev, /proc, /mnt) in the root, the main filesystem is mounted at /system. I hope to get a release made by the end of the year, hopefully by then the issues with my HDD driver (inability to read files properly) will be fixed. I have a screenshot, too:
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    For anyone who doesn't know, QEMU is an x86 PC emulator.

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