There was a very long break in development of this operating system, and people could only download the boot code and a nearly empty file that promised to contain AuroraOS. But this is over now!Since the 28th of November, we have an official first stable release, containing boot code for FAT12/16/32 partitions, a kernel loader supporting EXE/COM programs, a kernel with a currently read-only FAT12/16 file system and a rich C library.
The C code can be compiled with the free Turbo C from Borland, the boot code with Borland’s Turbo Assembler and the rest of the assembler code with NASM.
AuroraOS 0.0.8, our current release, also features a simple dos-like shell. A new version supporting FAT32 is soon to be available! The good thing about this all: it all comes with full source code and is absolutely free!
Whats the benefit of this over FreeDOS or any of the other MSDOS clones?
I’m getting a “cannot locate remote server” from that link.
Oh thats easy the author and co-authors(if any) get the pure geeky joy of creating their own OS.;)
Will
OT- I would have posted this under it’s own topic but, it’s loonnng nearing 200posts now, Goodluck Eugenia not many people who’s site gets 90k+ hits a day, would reply to stuipd little thank you emails, and for that personal touch your gonna be missed.
good luck in the future
Who needs another OS? It is not clear what the purpose of this is?
Is this an OS for a high school computer project? Its not more than a boot loader!
The level of this site surged after you left.
The Aurora Operating System is intended to become a new desktop OS that is actually compatible with other OSs, not only with MS DOS programs, but also Windows and Linux applications, later on maybe even more. You gave other OSs and people with their dreams their chances, why not give one to me as well? It might very well become successful!
This is exactly what I thought too,
although it’s a bit early to say something like that.
Found this site one of the best in the www
If I may here (OT)
It’s a pitty that you leave Eugenia
So good luck to you
Are you aware that single-handedly making a DOS, Windows, Linux and X-Windows compatible OS is about 25 to 30 years work?
Um…I can code a multi-threaded, multi-user, Windows-, UNIX- and BeOS-compatible OS complete with a Doom and OpenOffice.org port in less than sixty seconds. I don’t know what you’re talking about!
>The level of this site surged after you left.
I am not left yet! December 12th, I will have though.
when the OpenBeOS.org guys came up with the list of names of OpenBeOS, and they chose, among others, Aurora. I immediately pointed out that Aurora was already taken. Plus, I thought it was really boneheaded that nobody has taken the trouble of checking whether Aurora was used for a OS.
I got Turbo C and NASM, but where to get Turbo Assembler?
It can just be fun to make an OS like this. A while back I wrote a little OS similar to this. It started out in pure assembly, but then I rewrote the kernel in C. It wasn’t much to look at, but it was fun. Mine wasn’t intendd to be compatible with others, it wouldbe unique. Maybe I should I dig up the old floppie with the source, if they still exist. Teh only problem now is that I have a Mac, wich isn’t the best platform to make hobby OSes, but I guess I could use Bochs or Virtual PC.
good luck sebastian.
“Um…I can code a multi-threaded, multi-user, Windows-, UNIX- and BeOS-compatible OS complete with a Doom and OpenOffice.org port in less than sixty seconds. I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
Great! If you could whip one up for me real quick and post it to your site, Id appreciate it!
I wanted to create and OS once.
Got everything I needed, NASM Sample code. I looked at everything you needed to do and decided that I would leave it to other people to play with and I would concentrate on other projects.
It aint easy but for some people it is FUN
You can buy it, or you could try MASM 6, which is free as part of various downloads from M$. MASM and TASM were competing products, and afaik TASM had a MASM compatibility mode. You may get lucky with MASM.
Where?