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p8os_early

by wallgraffiti

Cart #p8os_early-1 | 2021-03-13 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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It really isn't much just yet, but here's a few lists for those who like them.

Existing features:

• Mouse and keyboard reading(really not much to brag about)
• Removed v0.2: A system clock on the menu bar
• A basic menu bar
• A (yet nonfunctional) app menu you can toggle with Z(closest to the Windows button)
• A very clever way of storing program names
• v0.2: An (also nonfunctional) task menu you can toggle with X(next to the app button)
• v0.2: Hover-enabled user and clock buttons

Planned Features:

• Custom VM with bytecode transfered through sprites
• A framework for said VM with access to writing files and stuff like that
• A code editor for the VM in the OS. So... a VM inside a VM with an editor for that VM inside an operating system built in an editor on an operating system.

I want to make it so that you can paste in programs you made for the VM from the clipboard since that would be cool and I like cool.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy doing nothing interesting in this glorified button pressing simulator. Give ideas if you can!

P.S. Please do check out my very clever way of storing program names. I'm too proud of it for you not to notice ;_;
P.P.S. I'm planning on making the program icons/names even clever-er since every icon is essentially a 1-bit image, meaning I can pack four icon pixels into a single actual pixel. Haven't done that yet, but it's planned.

Wonderful! I'd love to see what happens with this OS next!

I'm very interested to see how this turns out!
(incidentally, I was inspired by this post to create my own version-- which at the moment is not much more than a glorified button presser)
At the moment, it doesn't do... well, anything, except for changing the color of the taskbar when you press start (there are also two options in the menu for changing some things; there are also a few options in the code that can be changed. Though it's a bit messy now, I'm trying to build a stable platform to make a much larger project in.)

pico_desktop

by Einstein2

Cart #pico_desktop-1 | 2021-05-07 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

2

@Einstein2 Cool! I notice that the clock doesn't pad the digits with zero. You can do that pretty easily by creating a function which converts the number to a string, checks the length of that, and if it's 1 it returns "0"..n.
I recommend you check out my code so you can see what sort of shenanigans I've put in there. Have fun, and don't get lost in the mess ._.

@wallgraffiti
Thanks for the tip!
I looked at your code, there are a lot of small optimizations I can think of, if you'd like to take a look:

function bn(b)
    return b and 1 or 0
end

function nb(b)
    return({[0]=false,1})[b%2]
end

    return(not n) and d or nb((d&2^n)>>n)

    if k then return p==k else return p end

function pad(s)
    return #(""..s)==1 and "0"..s or s 
end

Wow, that's a lot of things I wouldn't have thought of myself! About the _draw and _update60, I am aware of these functions. It's just that the OS started with me messing around with mouse and keyboard, so I used repeat .. until __ since it's quicker. I think I would prefer to stay with that, since the OS isn't meant to be quick per-se, but just a fun thing.
Still, thanks for doing all of this optimisation for me! I'll add it in ASAP.