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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
I wonder why the choice of SB16
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…
How do we delineate "OS that does one thing" from "bare metal program?"
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…
So if you could write programs with the tetris blocks, it'd be an OS? Sign me up!
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…
For example, you can have a Smalltalk-based OS, written in Smalltalk. The OS components are simply Smalltalk classes and methods. Your programs/utilities/applications would also be Smalltalk classes and methods. There needn't be any clear boundary between the classes/methods that belong to the OS and those that belong to programs/applications/utilities.
If you look at library operating systems, the operating system is just a library which you link into your application. Such an operating system can only run one program, and you have to rebuild the operating system whenever you want to change the single program it runs. Still, I think library operating systems count as operating systems. This Tetris implementation isn't using a library operating system, but you could refactor the code into two parts – the Tetris game, and generic OS services, and the later would constitute a library operating system. If you look at its source files, only about seven of them (main.c, music.[ch], sound.[ch], speaker.[ch]) actually implement the game. The other 23 source files are generic OS services. So I'd say that, even if this isn't an operating system as a whole, it contains an OS within itself.
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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
Wonderful! Mine has been chess streams. GMHikaru,IM Rosen, St. Louis Chess Club ... What else have you discovered?
I haven’t watched chess in a while, but your comment certainly sparked something. I may give it another go.
For a less nerd-y class of content, I have also enjoyed boxing videos - especially those focused on coaches illustrating technique.
[*] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCguWV1bZg1QiWbY32vGnOLw