Shouldn’t use the godot name for this
Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine
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#43Reminds me of all the "OSes"/GUIs that got made back in the QBasic days: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/ Always a fun project to do. Thanks for carrying the torch forward in something modern! ps, my favorite of the QBasic ones is probably M-GUI: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/95_mgui.html which even included its own programming language to make apps in!
DOS-based GUIs were the rage in its days.
In 1999 I coded a graphical environment for DOS using Borland's BGI in Turbo Pascal. I even used it in one of my uni assignments[0].
I still remember some afternoons in the library, helping pals with linked lists basics and finetuning my textbox scroll code. Good times.
[0] https://github.com/luismedel/jugadores
edit: Forgot to add that I wrote a lot of code in paper :-)
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#44Reminds me of all the "OSes"/GUIs that got made back in the QBasic days: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/ Always a fun project to do. Thanks for carrying the torch forward in something modern! ps, my favorite of the QBasic ones is probably M-GUI: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/95_mgui.html which even included its own programming language to make apps in!
This is absolutely amazing! It brings back great memories of my childhood when I was doing similar mock UIs in QBasic, then QuickBasic, Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. Thanks for sharing!
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#45From the screenshot: > GodotOS is a fake operating system Is it fake, though? Does the term "operating system" imply the level of hardware it's running on? Otherwise, even if it's running on top of another OS, it's still an OS.
It's a fake OS in the sense that it's actually an application, not something that can be ran as an operating system like Linux or Windows. I've been a bit careful with my wording when advertising this, I wouldn't want to give the wrong impression.
Sounds like a shell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_%28computing%29#Graphica...
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#46Reminds me of all the "OSes"/GUIs that got made back in the QBasic days: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/ Always a fun project to do. Thanks for carrying the torch forward in something modern! ps, my favorite of the QBasic ones is probably M-GUI: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/95_mgui.html which even included its own programming language to make apps in!
>Because this site still gets a lot of traffic, I'll be redesigning the site with more of a modern look and feel. [...] I'll try to keep you posted and hopefully won't get sidetracked. Looks like they did get sidetracked, and I'm glad! If the author is reading this, I think it's a great time capsule that's probably best left as-is.
Another time capsule, this time in the form of an endolink: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38938998
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#47Reminds me of all the "OSes"/GUIs that got made back in the QBasic days: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/ Always a fun project to do. Thanks for carrying the torch forward in something modern! ps, my favorite of the QBasic ones is probably M-GUI: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/95_mgui.html which even included its own programming language to make apps in!
GIMI was quite impressive as well, also including its own programming language, but also getting some heavy-lifting weight from a handful of tools written in other languages: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimi/
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#48It's a game launcher that uses Godot, but neither an OS nor connected with the Godot project. It's a bit like writing a game launcher in Rust and calling it RustOS.
Isn't it a bit like making an app that uses Qt and start its name with a Q? Without giving any real name, I can invent "Qnotepad" which would be a notepad implemented with Qt.
I know real projects that follow this pattern, and it never really bothered me that it was not connected to the Qt project (other than by using Qt).
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#49This is great. Would you recommend Godot for prototyping UIs, in general, over HTML/JavaScript?
I guess you are aware, but Godot can be compiled to JavaScript:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/export/expo...
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#50The Godot IDE itself is a "game" as in it is entirely built using Godot APIs. Makes me wonder if it would actually be a good environment to build portable business apps, sort of like a modern Visual Basic.