HDD Drivers
Hey, i took a quick look at the os with VMWare, looks like it has a lot of promise. but alas i can not run any of the other applications other then the kernel because 1) i am running the os on a floppy-less laptop 2) i am the running the os in vmware so therefore getting applications to any of the boot images is kinda of a hassle.... i was wondering if any progress has been made on the hard disk driver for the os i have been reading through the posts and have noticed that the authors of the OS are not intrested in anybody writing code for the os itself but are intrested only in people writing programs for the os (did i get the wrong impression) so writing a driver myself is purely out of the question, besides it would take me a long time (i have no experience with the os or reading/writing data directly to the hard drive via the ide controller or via the bios) so it would be a slow process to say the least. i would also love the source code, if possible (i am working on my own compression project, taking a break at the moment though) and am thinking that if and when i can have a better look at the os (for the reasons described above). I might want to port my code. I have also noticed that there has not been any posts for a while....... should i count this operating system as another dead os (i would hope not, the audio driver alone and some other things i have seen look very promsing and encouraging)... please reply in kind bpsheen

First let me welcome you to the forum, next the Hdd driver is finished for fat16/32, it come's as a loadable module or built into the kernel in the next ver. http://dex.7.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=185 As for dead no its very much alive, i am working on a dashboard(gui) and will be releasing the next ver of Dex4u in the next week or two which will include built in hdd driver, fully skinable gui, etc. http://www.dex4u.com/images/Dash4u.jpg There is not a day that goes by that i do not add some code to Dex4u. It would be great if you port your code to Dex4u, as for others adding to the kernel, i try to do most of that work, so it's compatable, but any one with source code can add improvements and if they work well, will be added to the main ver (as the code is available to all forum members and i will PM you a link to the code). Now theres a module interface, anyone can add drivers to the OS. As for testing Dex4u programs, theres a iso http://www.dex4u.com/dexiso.zip you can burn to cd-rw. and this is recommended for emulators http://www.dex4u.com/DosBoxDex4u.zip NOTE: these are not got some of the latest things, but will give you a idea.

Very cool
Very good to hear, nice interface btw.... now i got the source i have a look....and see what i can understand, cheerz baz

Your welcome, note we also have this forum : http://jas2o.forthworks.com/dexforum/index.php

Tested things
Well i got the iso running with more cooperating using vmware with demamon tools and that was intresting.,.... the most intresting thing is that the some of the cursor keys, i cant remember which ones always give out numbers .... so i got the floppy running with a little renaming from .ima to .img and ran that through vmware..... cursor problem gone....... very intresting gui prog dosent work on my pc... which vesa mode is it trying to use (again i am in vmware so maybe i shoule be saying that gui prog dosent work with vmware) . ac97 driver also does not work (no translation done by vmware so this is a problem with the driver) but the text editor looks alright dexos definetley has some things that are a little annoying like having to type "run prog.dex" to run a program but taking a look at the big picture, i would say there are bigger issues to worry about and that for a os at V .05 it still shows a lot of promise..... good work.... i cant wait for the next release one thing though... the release of the kernal on the iso must be different from the one on the emu floppy image...... so dont use that part of the code in the new release cheerz baz btw.. with the floppy image i modified to print two things out and wait for keypresses. any chances of int 21h equialvents for files in the next release, like open file (6ch), read file, write file, close file, move file pointer etc. ... :shock: