I'm surprised Claude is actually decent at real-mode Asm, but maybe there was a lot of attempts and guidance by the human.
nineteen999 5 minutes ago [-]
Ive been throwing z80, 6502, 68000, 8086, i386 and x86_64 asm at it lately. Haven't seen it get stuck on any of them.
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orbital-decay 33 minutes ago [-]
Beveled-buttons Minesweeper (first appeared in Win 3.11 IIRC) running on a preemptive 8086 OS with a bootleg System 1/2/3 interface looks absolutely cursed.
retrac 12 minutes ago [-]
I really did not expect the ball to keep moving in Arkanoid when I started dragging cards around in Solitaire. That would have made an audience back in the day stand up and scream.
nianderwallace 21 minutes ago [-]
You'd still need a Wordstar-like app and a VisiCalc-like app (pref. Lotus 123-like).
VGA adapter means you have to wait until 1987 to run this, otherwise you'd deal with CGA's non-square pixels. EGA support would only be possible in Oct 1984.
rickcarlino 16 minutes ago [-]
The website explicitly states a lack of networking. Any interest in pursuing that in a future version?
I have a Pocket 8086 - I would love to give this a try next weekend.
LeoPanthera 1 hours ago [-]
It's funny how virtually everyone on HN is using AI to write code and simultaneously dismisses all interesting new software as written by AI.
userbinator 30 minutes ago [-]
There are both pro- and anti-AI factions here... and those with more nuanced views.
Personally, I don't care as long as the end result is good, but a lot of AI software tends to be in the lower end of the quality range.
1bpp 44 minutes ago [-]
Different groups, the spammers like to congratulate each other for how much hard work they must have put into their very impressive prompt engineering. Regardless, AI code is distinct from extremely blatant AI design. People dismiss things that had no actual design, just whatever fell out of the prompt they gave it. If you can't write a single human paragraph or put thought and care into how you are presenting 'your' project, it's not worth paying attention to. Why can't they present their own work honestly? Why would I spend energy looking at an OS made by someone who can't write an HTML file by themself?
superb_dev 46 minutes ago [-]
It’s almost like those are two different populations of people?
LeoPanthera 45 minutes ago [-]
Outside in the real world? Sure.
Here on HN? I don't believe that.
jggonz 4 hours ago [-]
The graphical operating system that could have been for the IBM XT.
A MacOS-like desktop for the Intel 8086, written entirely in real-mode assembly (with Claude). Verified to run on real hardware, with FAT12/16 support, ported apps, games, Sound Blaster support and upcoming Hard Drive support.
WillAdams 2 hours ago [-]
Well there was GeoWorks (which AOL used the GUI of to their advantage):
This rewrites what-could-have-been history a bit... better get my IBM XT/286 out of storage! Is this for real?
drivers99 33 minutes ago [-]
I might have to try it out. I have an 8088 IBM PC (my first computer) on a desk. I need to swap out some bad RAM (I've been getting Parity errors and other strange behavior), but it says it works with 256KB so I could remove the AST SixPakPlus altogether. The fully populated mother board has 256KB. (I could also unplug the MFM hard drive controller as well.) It supports CGA and VGA and I have both (the CGA is original; the VGA is an 8-bit ISA one I picked up a couple years ago). I also have a serial mouse... Right now I have one floppy disk that came with a book I re-bought recently (Peter Norton's Guide to Assembly Language) and I could back up the files from it and use that but I think I'd rather buy/find another one to use. And I need more than one disk for this anyway.
Interesting, it currently says, 'Nobody has yet written the images to 5.25" media and booted an actual XT with them.'
anigbrowl 1 hours ago [-]
Was not expecting the fractal viewer (in disk B/apps)
cheema33 2 hours ago [-]
If it were available back then, Microsoft may be a small shop today or may have gone the way of Lotus.
internet2000 1 hours ago [-]
Fun little toy. Wonder how much in tokens went into it.
theturtle 1 hours ago [-]
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More like hand-prompted...
> 66,183 lines of hand-written real-mode assembly
Goes to the github - contributers jggonz and CLAUDE. The README.md doubles down on this at the bottom with the license.
> Everything here is hand-written; no third-party code is vendored into the OS, so the whole tree is covered by that one license.
That's what happens when you let an LLM write your ad-copy...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203613
VGA adapter means you have to wait until 1987 to run this, otherwise you'd deal with CGA's non-square pixels. EGA support would only be possible in Oct 1984.
I have a Pocket 8086 - I would love to give this a try next weekend.
Personally, I don't care as long as the end result is good, but a lot of AI software tends to be in the lower end of the quality range.
Here on HN? I don't believe that.
A MacOS-like desktop for the Intel 8086, written entirely in real-mode assembly (with Claude). Verified to run on real hardware, with FAT12/16 support, ported apps, games, Sound Blaster support and upcoming Hard Drive support.
https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
Amazing.
Interesting, it currently says, 'Nobody has yet written the images to 5.25" media and booted an actual XT with them.'