h5n1xp/curios

Simple GUI based Operating System - Based upon my own Microcokernel, heavily inspired by the original 1980s AmigaOS (though somewhat simpler).

curios's Issues

Resizing windows randomly causes lock ups

The last remaining GUI issue is while resizing a window, when more than one resizable window is open causes random lockups.

I suspect something (like an uninitialised pointer or something) is crashing the Window Server (currently and incorrectly called the Input Task due to it's heritage). I have added some Non GUI based Crash Reporting code, so if the window server crashes then the Error is just printed directly to the screen (a Blue screen of death)... But still no error is thrown, the machine just locks up.

-Edit-
Adding a high priority task which alternately writes a red and then black square directly to the frame buffer, so this can been seen running even if the window server crashes. This task also stops when the machine locks up, so this suggests the task lists are becoming corrupted.

Remove build artifacts from repository?

Build artifacts, such as the .o and .elf files, plus the zipped disk images, shouldn't be kept in the repository.

Not an issue, just a "Well done"

Hey! This is really cool. I haven't actually used an Amiga in person but as a GUI you seem to get it pretty spot-on. I'm also an OSDev-er myself, and I'm not nearly hardcore (or patient enough) to bother writing everything from the ground up so my system is a complicated mess that is technically based off of NetBSD. Since my choice not to use an X or Wayland based windowing system (I'm thinking of using Ghostscript or PDF and building off of that) I've been looking around for inspiration on what to put in a "quality" GUI. While I can tell that this isn't finished, I'm excited to see the source code and see just how it works! The GUI ran very smooth when I emulated it in QEMU, and it's multitasking seems to work very well. So, I must say that this is deserving of a "Well done" and I hope it continues to grow because I can imagine quite a future for it as a hobbyist system.