Platypus OS version 0.06

[DamieFC]

Well, this has a lot of stuff, so lets get to it! For one, the OS went through a total rewrite, so everything got moved around. So, there's a keyboard driver, a bootloader, interrupts, IO functions (like for ports, not text, I don't think), and a VGA driver. 0.07 will be coming up soon in the next couple of weeks hopefully.

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This discussion was created from the release Platypus OS version 0.06.

[PQCraft]

@DamieFC Do you think you could add some stuff from here?: https://github.com/PQCraft/PhosphorOS I have a keyboard driver that supports almost all the keys (will add more until every key has a char) and a vga driver with some nice capabilities (when its done booting use F1-F8 to change the color from 0-7 and Shift+F1-F8 for 8-15, Ctrl+L clears the screen (with a random fancy effect (there are 3)). The code for this is in src/lib/util.c, src/lib/common.h (keymaps), src/drivers/ps2/keyboard.c, src/drivers/video/video.c, and src/drivers/video/text-mode/text-mode.c

[kushagra765]

@PQCraft, @DamieFC

I think we should implement all the things instead of adding from PhosphorOS because -

Writing an OS is a hard task that can't be achieved by copying and pasting random snippets of code. One has to know what does he do and how everything works together. In short, Duct is not the appropriate archetype for an OS developer.

We can see the implementation in PhosphorOS and implement it in our own way.

[DamieFC]

Yeah, I like that idea. Thanks @PQCraft and @kushagra765! I actually when I first wanted to develop an OS I was totally Duct von Tape, as you can see here. 90% of the code is not mine.