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OSDev Series Updates by Mike at Mon 26 Jul 17:16
Hello everyone,

Chapter 18 of our OS Development Series has been updated to include more content and some important bug fixes in the provided demo software. Because of this, demo releases of all following chapters will be updated to reflect the new changes over the next few days.

The next chapter, Chapter 23, is planned to cover user mode and single tasking. It is planned for release soon after the above updates have been completed.

Please let me know if there are any comments or suggestions.
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Site Updates by Mike at Sat 12 Jun 01:07
Hello everyone,

Some updates have been applied to the forum software. Please let us know if there are any issues. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS by Mike at Tue 6 Apr 18:22
Hello everyone,

I apologize for the delay for this release - Chapter 22 of our OSDev Series pre-release is here at last! It covers VFS and more file system topics in detail along with a new filesystem driver for our kernel. After this is done we will be able to load files off of disk with the ability to support any number of file systems and devices. This completes the basic framework needed for us to...
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Graphics 1 Chapter has been released by Mike at Sat 30 Jan 15:13
Hello everyone,

Graphics 1, the first of several chapters covering graphics programming and topics have been released. This is the first chapter of a spinoff miniseries based off of the OS Development Series. This chapter covers general graphics concepts, some hardware concepts, VGA BIOS interface, and more.

Any feedback is welcome :D Comments 4
Chapter 21 Demo Released by Mike at Sun 1 Nov 11:10
Hello everyone,

The VPC compatibility bug has been fixed in this new demo, and the demo builds off of the code in the chapter and last demo to read sectors from disk using our new DMAC interface. Everything is set up for us now to read and execute a program - coming up in chapter 22. The chapter has also been officially released with some new content.
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OSDev Series Chapter 21 by Mike at Sat 10 Oct 13:28
Hello everyone,

The pre-release of chapter 21 of our OS development series has been released. It can be found here at http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDev21.html Sorry, no demo yet. Demo is finished, however we plan on updating the chapter and demo a little more. It should be released tomorrow.

It covers:

*DMA concepts
*DMA hardware
*DMA Ports, Registers, Commands
*DMA programming topics...
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Neptune has a new site by Mike at Sat 10 Oct 11:50
Hello everyone,

Neptune, our in-house operating system software suite, has moved to http://www.brokenthorn.com/mos/site2/ . We are keeping the original site up as well, but from now on all updates will be on the new site. Because this is a new site, some links might not work.

We are also requesting comments and suggestions about the look and feel of the main site. What do you like about it? What don't you ...
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