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Re: AaronOS

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Post by BusyLurker3K »

AaronAdams wrote: post #16
luciusdomitius wrote: post #11

Absolutely love it when people who don't know the difference between OS, DE and a shell start writing "OS"s :D Otherwise it is quite impressive given the circumstances.

Haha, I experimented with a rebranding to aDE instead of aOS, but felt that it could get confused with actual Linux desktop environments. As time passes the "System" part of "OS" is beginning to feel more valid, at the least. 3rd-party app support, interconnected systems, etc. You're right though, certainly not an actual OS by any measure.

Excellent reply to an obvious troll.

Re: AaronOS

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Post by ashleyn »

pkhodiyar wrote: post #3

I love 'web-desktops' so made a comprehensive github repo listing 171 such webDesktops that people made. AaronOS is a part of it wit proper attribution to original creator. Please have a look here, you will love it : https://github.com/zriyans/awesome-OS

Novice/young programmers seem to love making OS mockups as a first exercise. This phenomenon even predates web apps: I remember an entire scene consisting of MS-DOS GUIs made with QuickBasic. Hundreds of them - many clones of Windows 95 or Mac OS. There's a site that hosts a bunch of them still: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/

Re: AaronOS

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Post by AaronAdams »

ashleyn wrote: post #22
pkhodiyar wrote: post #3

I love 'web-desktops' so made a comprehensive github repo listing 171 such webDesktops that people made. AaronOS is a part of it wit proper attribution to original creator. Please have a look here, you will love it : https://github.com/zriyans/awesome-OS

Novice/young programmers seem to love making OS mockups as a first exercise. This phenomenon even predates web apps: I remember an entire scene consisting of MS-DOS GUIs made with QuickBasic. Hundreds of them - many clones of Windows 95 or Mac OS. There's a site that hosts a bunch of them still: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/

That's exactly how aOS started. Wasn't quite my first exercise, but was among the first few things I ever made.

I have a little snapshot of how it looked back then, at https://aaronos.dev/AaronOS_Old/

Re: AaronOS

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Post by Minor49er »

ashleyn wrote: post #22
pkhodiyar wrote: post #3

I love 'web-desktops' so made a comprehensive github repo listing 171 such webDesktops that people made. AaronOS is a part of it wit proper attribution to original creator. Please have a look here, you will love it : https://github.com/zriyans/awesome-OS

Novice/young programmers seem to love making OS mockups as a first exercise. This phenomenon even predates web apps: I remember an entire scene consisting of MS-DOS GUIs made with QuickBasic. Hundreds of them - many clones of Windows 95 or Mac OS. There's a site that hosts a bunch of them still: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/

I remember someone making one for an MS-DOS text mode game creation system called MegaZeux. They called it Airborne OS. It was spawned by the enthusiasm around Windows 95/98 at the time, though the result is rather wonky, especially if you're not used to how MegaZeux games typically operate. For example, the cursor is actually the player character and can only move with the arrow keys.

1999 version: https://www.digitalmzx.com/show.php?id=12

2000 version: https://www.digitalmzx.com/show.php?id=13

Re: AaronOS

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Post by tpoacher »

AaronAdams wrote: post #13

How cool to see my project on here! Been working on it for roundabout seven years. If anyone's got questions, fire away!

Looks amazing!

No question, just a typo I spotted:

    s/psuedo/pseudo
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