CyclonePC and OS

[Black Phoenix]

Okay, I figured writing the whole thing in assembly would be next to impossible so I need a C compiler first.
Should I ask someone to rebuild ZC or make my own? Or I could also try to retarget small-C compiler. So Black Phoenix, how did you do it?

I retargeted Small-C. I can give you sourcecode for ZC32 if you ask me.

There are GS ES LS KS FS you can use, and DS CS SS you shouldn't really use.

[Nikita]

Yes please. I'm going to try and retarget it for my instruction set.

[Black Phoenix]

zc32dev.rar - FileSmelt File and Image Hosting
That should be all you need (it compiles itself, just poke around bat files to find the one that compiles it).

[brandonb21]

is your name lost alpha by any chance cause i think your on my msn

[Nikita]

Umm, no. I was hanging around Deus Ex clan "alpha" few years back but that's not me.
Oh and I just moved to England and became a student yay waiting for my credit card and then I'll be waiting for a computer I'm ordering. Progress will then commence.

[cakeguy]

leme get this, you are ordering a computer to make a computer? lol....

[Tasuit]

Any progress on this? Im eager to see results

[Nikita]

The project is on hold for the most random reason, I have no computer.
I'm ordering one online through paypal and my bank doesn't give me transcripts for confirmation. I'll pay them a visit on monday for that, and for my pin, which they still don't give me too. And then I'll just have to wait for some mail.
Buying a laptop, asus G51-X2A which is not for our UK market so it takes some time.

That's all because I'm just starting college life already got some flu and other nasty things and still learning how to keep my apartment clean all the time. So there is no saying on how much might I work on it... Enough probably.

[ryland]

This looks cool, and also im not alone, im making an OS in E2 also. yay.

Have you made any progress.

[Nikita]

No. :P

Well my PC should ship just tomorrow (I hope) and I'm getting an upgrade to 50mb/s from my ancient 256kb/s internet

So you won't have to wait that much longer.
Edit:
Mmmmm, well, got a nice pc, so get yourself comfortable and wait maybe half a year or so

Currently doing: Top-down development of OS source in C. This shouldn't take long.

PS: apparently, most functions take a ridiculous number of steps when converted from C to assembler. 50 lines could easily become a thousand machine words.

What I've done:
RAM loader: load, unload, page, unpage, defrag.

What has to be done:
Scheduler.
Messanger.
Thread pool (I.e. a structure containing info on programs, threads and memory.)
Drivers: 1) basic 2D graphic language.
Filesystem (file/folder functions.)
Shell. (it comes before everything else, doesn't it?)
Desktop. (Like in Windows, the explorer or alike.)

Programs:
1)Explorer, Shell, Task manager, Control Panel.
2)Paint, Calculator, Notepad.
3)Assembler, C compiler.

Think of it as a progress report.
No need for words for in the dark, all words have long since lost their meaning...