[nlh]

I’ll echo what everyone else said - SUPER IMPRESSIVE and awe-inspiring work. Thanks for sharing it with the world.

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!

[ffwff]

You can checkout what I replied to jchw. But tldr, wanted to do DOS => got ambitious => made it multitasking => got more ambitious => added graphics and guis.

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 :^)