The Arial Operating System.

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A homage to `90s User interface design, combined with modern development. Arial is centered around creating an operating system that is simple, beautiful and accessible.

Milestone 1 Todo

Whilst Milestone 1 is far away this serves a nice goal post before i tackle more complex problems like paging and threading for milestone 2.

• Refine toolchain for compatibility on Linux.
• Graphics rendering using VBE.
  • printf function to get better debug information.
  • Support to draw different shapes. Squares, circles, individual pixels and text.
  • Render a basic version of arial's logo using graphics library.
  • Draw a color image.
  • Create a text mode fallback.incase VBE doesn't start properly.
• GDT, IDT and Interrupts.
  • Create and flush GDT and IDT tables
  • Get hardware interrupts.
  • Map software interrupts.
• Simple PS/2 driver for keyboard and mouse.
  • Get interrupts 1 and 12 for activity on input devices.
  • Spawn relevant events for each device after their interrupts.
  • Get basic keyboard driver working and draw characters to screen.
  • Get basic mouse driver working and draw cursor to screen.
  • Handle clicks / modifier keys and store that information in event
  • Key stroke buffer for keyboard
• General house keeping
  • Get a system timer created. Create a clock from interrupt 33 or something?
  • Create function to find the SMBios.
  • Use SMBios to get information about cpu, bios and manufacture of machine.

Screenshots

arial build: ebf615d running on QEMU 6.2