YaadOS v2.0.0

YaadOS v2.0.0

YaadOS v2 turns the offline retro arcade into a complete early-2000s cyber-cafe session. The VirtualBox appliance boots through Dial-Up Connect into a keyboard-driven cafe experience with prepaid time, local profiles, YaadNet, Messenger, games, and Guestbook 2000.

What's new

• Three-character cafe profiles with simulated prepaid time and persistent credit
• Five-minute and one-minute warnings with safe expiry after the current app closes
• Session summaries, launch history, recharge flow, and protected demo reset
• YaadNet 56K local portal with homepage, webmail, search, downloads, cafe notices, and Guestbook 2000
• Active cafe initials carried into YaadMessenger handles and profile-specific chat logs
• Shared migration-safe SQLite state with concurrent Arcade and YaadNet access
• Keyboard controls: F5 Session, F6 Messenger, F7 YaadNet, F8 Dial-Up, F10 Power

Appliance

• VirtualBox 7.x appliance
• 2 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, VMSVGA, NAT, and audio enabled
• Default login: yaados / retro2003
• Runtime works completely offline

The final OVA was imported into a fresh VM and passed boot, Dial-Up Connect, LightDM, Arcade kiosk, YaadNet health, and seeded-data checks.

Download and reassemble

GitHub limits individual release assets to less than 2 GiB, so download both OVA parts into the same directory.

Windows Command Prompt:

copy /b YaadOS-2.0.0.ova.part-00+YaadOS-2.0.0.ova.part-01 YaadOS-2.0.0.ova

Linux or macOS:

cat YaadOS-2.0.0.ova.part-00 YaadOS-2.0.0.ova.part-01 > YaadOS-2.0.0.ova

The reconstructed appliance must have this SHA-256 digest:

9da593e91a1368682540780f6842712807d006885eecfc72225c6642723a8712

Import YaadOS-2.0.0.ova using File > Import Appliance in VirtualBox.

YaadOS v1.0.0

YaadOS v1.0.0 prerelease

YaadOS is a ready-to-import VirtualBox appliance styled as an early-2000s Indian cyber cafe arcade. It boots directly into the keyboard-driven YaadOS Arcade and includes the offline game library, Dial-Up Connect sequence, YaadMessenger, and Guestbook 2000.

Appliance

• VirtualBox 7.x appliance
• Debian 12 with Xfce and LightDM
• 2 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, VMSVGA, NAT, and audio enabled
• Default login: yaados / retro2003
• Runtime works offline

This prerelease was imported into a fresh VM on the build host and passed boot, service, arcade, game-readiness, guestbook, and kiosk smoke checks. Cross-machine acceptance testing is still recommended before a public demo.

Download and reassemble

GitHub limits each release asset to less than 2 GiB, so the OVA is supplied as two raw parts. Download both parts into the same directory.

Windows Command Prompt:

copy /b YaadOS-1.0.0.ova.part-00+YaadOS-1.0.0.ova.part-01 YaadOS-1.0.0.ova

Linux or macOS:

cat YaadOS-1.0.0.ova.part-00 YaadOS-1.0.0.ova.part-01 > YaadOS-1.0.0.ova

The reconstructed OVA must have this SHA-256 digest:

f7d8350c2887e594ba90ad1c43c0ec5a7fa41cd0107e2ba14d178c533f40ebd6

Import YaadOS-1.0.0.ova with File > Import Appliance in VirtualBox.