Rainbow-OS: The Second App Was Almost Free
Last time, Space Invaders became the first Rainbow-OS program to live outside the kernel. Getting it there was real work: […]
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Rainbow-OS: Moving a Game Out of the Kernel
For most of its life, every „app“ in Rainbow-OS — the editor, the BASIC interpreter, the C compiler, the games
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Rainbow-OS: An In-OS Debugger
Once Rainbow-OS could compile C and run it in Ring 3, the obvious next question was: how do you watch
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Rainbow-OS: A Userland/Kernel Boundary (Ring 3 + Syscalls)
Until recently, every program Rainbow-OS ran shared one address space with the kernel, at full privilege. A program compiled with
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Rainbow-OS: A Space Invaders Game
After Asteroids, Rainbow-OS gets its second arcade classic: a full Space Invaders, launched with the invaders shell command and running
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Rainbow-OS: An Asteroids Game (and the Timer It Needed)
With a 256-color graphical console in place, Rainbow-OS was finally ready for the obligatory rite of passage for any hobby
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Rainbow-OS: From VGA Text Mode to an 800×600 Graphical Console
Rainbow-OS has spent its whole life talking to the screen through the PC’s oldest trick: VGA text mode, an 80×25
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Rainbow-OS: Tab Autocomplete in the Shell
A small but disproportionately satisfying upgrade to the Rainbow-OS shell: the Tab key now does something useful. Type edit hel,
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Rainbow OS Update: Vim Editor, BASIC Interpreter, Persistent Storage & C Compiler
Five days, four milestones. Since the last update, Rainbow OS has gained a full-screen text editor, a BASIC interpreter, persistent
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Rainbow-OS: Building a 32-Bit Operating System from Scratch
What if you built a complete operating system from scratch — no libraries, no existing kernel, no abstraction layers? That’s