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Re: Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris

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Post by harry8 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:32 AM UTC

nojs wrote: post #7

Koshkin wrote: post #3

TetrOS would be a better name.

“Tetris” clones often seem to get aggressively shut down on copyright grounds too, so this might be more robust.

Seems ironic since given the prominence of intellectual property theft from its creators in the Tetris story. :S

Re: Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris

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Post by charles_f » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:36 AM UTC

> Soundblaster 16 driver

This brings back memories for those wretched days when you needed floppy drivers for the most casual of peripherals. Life was simpler back then (and also much more complex)

Re: Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:38 AM UTC

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Re: Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris

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Post by userbinator » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:44 AM UTC

Koshkin wrote: post #3

TetrOS would be a better name.

Already taken: https://hackaday.com/2016/10/06/tetris-in-446-bytes/

Re: Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris

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Post by FredPret » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:46 AM UTC

harry8 wrote: post #11

nojs wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Tetris” clones often seem to get aggressively shut down on copyright grounds too, so this might be more robust.

Seems ironic since given the prominence of intellectual property theft from its creators in the Tetris story. :S

Maybe they learnt first-hand...

Re: Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris

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Post by aparsons » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:54 AM UTC

cconger wrote: post #2

Youtube video that goes over the developer's experience making it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaILnmUYS_U

In my retirement, watching programming streams has been a guilty pleasure (drives my SO crazy), and this is one of my favorite channels. I especially loved their other video on making Minecraft from scratch*

* - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O0_-1NaWnY

Re: Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris

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Post by loser777 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:55 AM UTC

How do we delineate "OS that does one thing" from "bare metal program?"

Re: Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris

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Post by Black101 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:59 AM UTC

Tetrinet next?

Re: Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris

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Post by lisper » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 2:01 AM UTC

This is cool, but I think it's misleading to call it an operating system. It's Tetris that runs without an operating system, which is to say, on bare metal, old school. Writing programs that run on bare metal is a cool and worthwhile thing to do, but calling any such program an "operating system" is confusing.

This probably sounds like I'm picking a nit, but I think it matters for the sake of newbies just starting to climb the learning curve and trying to understand what an "operating system" actually is. IMHO, the defining characteristic of an operating system is that it provides an environment in which to run other programs, ones that are not part of the operating system, and which may not even exist at the time that the operating system starts to run.

Re: Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris

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Post by tracker1 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 2:04 AM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #10

"Windows - Absolutely no idea." QEMU works on WSL and WSL2 now, that would be one way.

Getting X and PulseAudio working is less than fun though... hoping MS or someone comes up with an "easy" button for that one. Managed to get X11 working, but not PulseAudio then kind of gave up on the experiment.