Creating an Operating System for the NES

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Inkbox

Inkbox

Жыл бұрын

Download NESOS at notin.tokyo/nesos
NESOS is an operating system designed for the Nintendo Entertainment and Family Computer Systems. It was programmed in 6502 Assembly and compiled using CC65. This video covers how NESOS was made, including techniques used in programming the NES such as dealing with the Picture Processing Unit and saving data long term via NVRAM.
The operating system features two core applications, the word processor, and the settings. The word processor allows users to print characters and certain blocks to the screen, then save that data in the form of a file for later use or editing. The settings app displays system information and lets the user select one of seven cursors, and one of 53 possible desktop background colors. It also acts as the file manager, allowing users to delete their saved files.
NESOS uses 2K of NVRAM to save up to 8 files between sessions. The word processor is fully compatible with the Family Basic Keyboard giving every key functionality. Users may open their saved files on the desktop top by navigating to the correct file and pressing the A button. Holding the B button while over an icon and moving the mouse will allow the user to move both the files and the applications anywhere on the desktop.
The word processor may also be used without the Family Basic Keyboard. Using a standard NES or Famicom controller the user may type a character by pressing the A button. Holding A will cycle through all 64 possible characters that can be drawn on the screen. Pressing the B button will move the cursor forward in the document. Holding select with A will cycle the characters in reverse order. Holding Select with B will move the cursor backwards in the document.
I have updated NESOS since uploading this video, the latest version can be found at the link above.
NESOS also available at:
www.romhacking.net/homebrew/172/
Resources:
Windows 98 for Famicom (this is a Chinese mockup of Windows 98 for the Famicom/NES and isn't really functional)
archive.org/details/FCWIN98
NES Programming Resources:
www.nesdev.org/wiki/Nesdev_Wiki
NES CPU Memory Map
www.nesdev.org/wiki/CPU_memor...

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@decrazyo
@decrazyo Жыл бұрын
Have you thought about adding support for the Famicom Disk System? I imagine you could load the whole OS into the disk cache at boot. Then the disk drive would be free for loading additional software, saving file, etc.
@keytester2733
@keytester2733 Жыл бұрын
use the floppy to run dos OR make a mod for family basis where you can save stuff to a floppy (like a commodore 64 or smth)
@famitory
@famitory Жыл бұрын
the hardware of the FDS can be modified to allow for unrestricted disk rewriting but I don't know if emulators support that. it would be limited to only a portion of the disk being writable. I suspect a more compatible solution would be some kind of bankswitching in NVRAM
@Bobbias
@Bobbias Жыл бұрын
@@keytester2733 this is really cool. Keep up the awesome work!
@keytester2733
@keytester2733 Жыл бұрын
@@Bobbias actually, it was just a idea, i dont know how to make or edit a nes game. i mean, it looks like just assembly, so i just have to technically just make a bootloader but NES compatible
@zulc22
@zulc22 Жыл бұрын
@@famitory this is true, but not a problem if, instead of making an OS that "connects" to the FDS, you make the OS *run* on the FDS itself. totally not an easy task, but you could just write to the areas not taken up by the OS.
@leomassafm160
@leomassafm160 Жыл бұрын
Now it truly lives up to the name "Family Computer".
@YetAnotherJohnSmith
@YetAnotherJohnSmith Жыл бұрын
Ok guys. He won the internet. We can all go home now. *as i stare off to the sky sipping on my coffee*
@meyers0781
@meyers0781 Жыл бұрын
Well there was Family Basic which allows simple programming and even saving made apps to diskette
@magnus87
@magnus87 Жыл бұрын
I would like a more powerful BASIC for FAMICOM, to really be able to make programs from the console and save them on a Datasette
@MiddleLevelLearning
@MiddleLevelLearning Жыл бұрын
400th like and 4th reply
@leomassafm160
@leomassafm160 Жыл бұрын
@@MiddleLevelLearning congrats. who cares?
@BalancedSpirit79
@BalancedSpirit79 Жыл бұрын
This reminds me of the Contiki project. They wanted to make an NES able to surf the net and they were going to use the Zapper as a “mouse” but the project was never finished. Thank you for doing all this work. Making retro systems do great things in modern day is always fun. “Everything old is new again.”
@kreuner11
@kreuner11 Жыл бұрын
Contiki works on C64, it has much more memory which means it's easier to do
@BalancedSpirit79
@BalancedSpirit79 Жыл бұрын
@@mr_indie_fan Oh I have that faved already; that was insane!! :D
@mmazurr
@mmazurr Жыл бұрын
I'm really curious how that zapper thing would work. As far as I'm aware, the zapper doesn't actually "point" at something. It just checks if the place it's pointed to was the place the screen designated as "correct", which is why the screen flashes when you play the game, as the game is telling the zapper where the duck is. Maybe they could come up with something clever or maybe it didn't work out too well. Frankly it seems more difficult to get an NES to try to render HTML properly, and forget about having it interpret CSS or JS. Just HTML is pretty light, but still potentially too much for the NES to handle.
@stanb1455
@stanb1455 Жыл бұрын
@@mr_indie_fan Of course, SuperRT is a piece of expansion hardware, these OS projects are only intended for running on Bone Stock consoles.
@kreuner11
@kreuner11 Жыл бұрын
@@mmazurr contiki on the C64 renderd it at a snails pace, without the ability to scroll the site, just autoscrolling while interpreting HTML
@DarkStar181992
@DarkStar181992 Жыл бұрын
I had a bootleg NES when I was a kid. It had an OS with GUI, multiple apps including a word processor, mouse and keyboard support. It felt like a home computer.
@admoran777
@admoran777 Жыл бұрын
If only the real NES was the same…
@r0ckt3hc4sb4h
@r0ckt3hc4sb4h Жыл бұрын
Do you remember its name?
@Iamnotrandom565
@Iamnotrandom565 Жыл бұрын
​@@r0ckt3hc4sb4h windows 98 comes up in my mind
@yerdnAAA
@yerdnAAA 11 ай бұрын
​@@r0ckt3hc4sb4hIn Russia such bootleg NES was called "Magistr Repetitor" (Магистр Репетитор) and had bootleg Excel, Word, Basic
@freeculture
@freeculture 11 ай бұрын
@@admoran777 One can only wonder why Nintendo of America decided to not bring the keyboard, cassette and later floppy to the US. There was a modem and printer too IIRC. The expansion port to plug those peripherals in the American NES is in the bottom.
@tnomad
@tnomad Жыл бұрын
This is a cool project. To be a bit pedantic it's not really an OS, it's really a GUI text editor. For it to be an OS I think you'd have to either have to expose some kind of API to make additional apps that run within it or find some way to load in and execute games, which I know the latter would be quite difficult. That's not to diminish that it's an interesting project and a good video explaining some of the technical issues of working on the NES.
@InkboxSoftware
@InkboxSoftware Жыл бұрын
You're right that it's not quite an OS in the sense of not having an API for other programs to use. But I think it wouldn't be that hard to include some way to have games as well (they'd just have to built into the program). The way the "apps" of the system work is when the user clicks on them it only runs that section of code, so it wouldn't be hard at all to create a game and then place an icon on the desktop for the user to launch it. Even including large games wouldn't be hard because I've actually written this program with the MMC3 mapper (a bit overkill for what I needed) so even if the game required two full pages of CHR ROM you could just switch to the game's section when it launched. To be honest it never occurred to me to write a game into the system (instead I was debating whether or not to build a spreadsheet app), but I think that would have been a nice improvement to the system. Loading games could potentially work with the use of the Family Keyboard's Cassette reader, or using the Famicom Disk System, so it wouldn't be impossible.
@DJMotorbike
@DJMotorbike Жыл бұрын
@@InkboxSoftware It would be neat if as a built in game you included a "port" of one of those old LCD Game & Watch games. Weather that's possible or not, I don't know. I'm not a programmer. Or Tetris would be cool too.
@vuurniacsquarewave5091
@vuurniacsquarewave5091 Жыл бұрын
Fun thing is that the Intellivision actually had a sort of "BIOS" or really a standard library of functions sitting on a built-in ROM for games to use. That is one step closer to that sort of thing.
@brandontechnerd
@brandontechnerd Жыл бұрын
@@vuurniacsquarewave5091 Same as the INT BIOS calls in x86 IBM PC systems
@istrasci
@istrasci Жыл бұрын
I should have read this comment before posting essentially the same thing.
@jadeglaze3390
@jadeglaze3390 Жыл бұрын
Super cool project! Here’s a relatively straightforward compression idea for your saved files: Since your alphabet is only 64 characters, you only need at most 6 bits per char, not a full byte of 8. This means you can store an 832 char file in 624 bytes with some bit shifting and masking. That’s 13 files in 8kb! And that’s keeping it relatively simple. If you want to really stretch your 6502 chops, you could implement Hoffman coding compression and allow variable length files (just have the first two bytes or so - technically 10 bits is enough- be the file length). Or a compromise: more compact than fixed 6 bytes per char but simpler than full on Hoffman coding: make a predetermined variable length encoding- like a precomputed Hoffman table or something similar to UTF-8 but alternating between 4 and 8 bits per char instead of 8 and 16 bytes per char.
@jadeglaze3390
@jadeglaze3390 Жыл бұрын
Wait! Better idea for variable file size: the first few bits of the file should represent a length in _chunks_ that the file requires where the chunks are known size. So for example: first 4 bits of the file represents the number (1-16) of 39 byte chunks (16*39=624) that the file occupies.
@kargaroc386
@kargaroc386 Жыл бұрын
Yeahhhh but the 6502 would probably choke on any of that stuff. It would work but would you want to use it? I guess when the platform is 8 bits the answer is always yes
@greenaum
@greenaum 11 ай бұрын
@@kargaroc386 I see OP's point about saving 2 bits, it's an idea worth considering if this were a serious project and you wanted an ALL-CAPS word processor for the NES. It'd need as much space for docs as you could get. Huffman compression is something else. Certainly 6502s can do it, and did, back in the '80s. But it's a pain in the arse to get your head round and you wouldn't want to have to debug it. Depends how clever you are. Really though you can't just have all-caps. There must be a way to extend the tile table. Games did it, although often using scanline interrupts which wouldn't be suitable when you'd want mixed case in all the text. Maybe try something clever using sprites for the extra letters? That'd get complex I think and you'd have to do it on the fly. Then again the ultimate Atari 2600 hack turned out to be having a cart that bangs hard on the machine's data lines. You set the data lines to high, I think, and the cart can drag them down to 0 with enough current. Yeah I doubt it's good for the old gal but maybe they built 'em tough back in NMOS or whatever. They drove the graphics chip hard and got more sprites than you were allowed out of it, looked amazing admittedly and could have been done at the time. But I wouldn't wanna be the guy i the shop when your cart breaks somebody's Atari and there's a queue of them lining up all with the same problem. Sorry what's the moral of the story? Abuse the hardware? Sometimes that worked out well.
@niallmcardle7
@niallmcardle7 10 ай бұрын
Take your bytes, and your goals will come!
@JiakunLi
@JiakunLi Жыл бұрын
在中国的1995年前后,有一种NES兼容机叫「小霸王学习机」。那部机器确实自带了OS系统,其中包含了Basic语言环境,带磁盘读写的文件操作。同时这个系统还包含了游戏编程,打字练习,文件处理等其他功能。感谢你让我回忆起了这些。
@me67galaxylife
@me67galaxylife 10 ай бұрын
Ching chang
@MrLind87
@MrLind87 10 ай бұрын
If you could watch the video that means you can understand English, so why did you write down your comment in Chinese?
@JiakunLi
@JiakunLi 10 ай бұрын
@@MrLind87 因为我是中国人。
@MrLind87
@MrLind87 10 ай бұрын
​@@JiakunLiI am Costarrican but I'm not speaking in Spanish because of that lol
@sfeee2677
@sfeee2677 10 ай бұрын
Translated by ChatGPT. In China around 1995, there was a NES-compatible console called the "Xiao Ba Wang Learning Machine." This machine indeed came with an operating system that included a Basic language environment and supported disk-based file operations. Additionally, the system featured game programming, typing practice, file management, and other functionalities. Thank you for bringing back these memories.
@NathanielBandy
@NathanielBandy Жыл бұрын
This is super cool, definitely gonna try itout
@SirLiamTheGreat
@SirLiamTheGreat Жыл бұрын
nathanl b
@patrickst_ar
@patrickst_ar Жыл бұрын
is this Nathaniel B?
@rrq
@rrq Жыл бұрын
@@patrickst_ar yeah that is
@movedsm1332
@movedsm1332 Жыл бұрын
OMG NATHANIEL BANDY!!!! :D
@Asteroid473
@Asteroid473 11 ай бұрын
Community: “This project is super niche, but really cool! It deserves more attention.” Random person scrolling through KZfaq: “Oh that looks cool, I’m probably going to check that out”
@BrowncoatInABox
@BrowncoatInABox Жыл бұрын
3:28 of all the things I was not expecting to learn in a video about a operating system for an NES. This is definitely one of them
@alvallac2171
@alvallac2171 Жыл бұрын
*an operating (because "operating" starts with a vowel sound) *NES, this (to fix your sentence fragment)
@BrowncoatInABox
@BrowncoatInABox Жыл бұрын
@@alvallac2171 I was on the moon when I wrote that comment and I regret nothing
@PhantomOfficial07
@PhantomOfficial07 Жыл бұрын
@@alvallac2171 You're being pedantic and annoying.
@stellarbastard98
@stellarbastard98 Жыл бұрын
@@alvallac2171 first grammar comment I see that isn't rude and actually explains the logic behind the correct spelling, well done!
@entx8491
@entx8491 Жыл бұрын
@@stellarbastard98 It's never really ever been rude, we just live in a society that now believes it's uncool to write properly. Hence his ungrateful excuse as a response.
@marioalfonsoarreolaa.flore2882
@marioalfonsoarreolaa.flore2882 Жыл бұрын
Not bad at all. Mad respect. You accomplished a lot even with the system limitations. In the current state it could work as a weekly journal.
@steventechno
@steventechno Жыл бұрын
I love seeing such obscure stuff like this. A simple 80's styled GUI-based OS for a console from the 80's. really has that vintage computer vibe going for it. Nice work! The advantage of this is the files are stored on the cartridge itself, so if you had notes and wanted to view them on another console, just plop that bad boy into another and you're set. Great concept!
@joedirt3563
@joedirt3563 Жыл бұрын
I do not recall the name but there is some thing like this for modern computers that's basically a mobile Linux OS on a flash drive.
@dasheru
@dasheru Жыл бұрын
@@joedirt3563 livecd?
@joedirt3563
@joedirt3563 Жыл бұрын
@@dasheru that might have been it. I can try and find if your interested.
@dasheru
@dasheru Жыл бұрын
​@@joedirt3563 nah, I'm good. "livecd" is just the blanket term for an external storage device that has a bootable OS installed on it.
@stupidfuckingrat
@stupidfuckingrat Жыл бұрын
@@joedirt3563 livecd doesn’t let you save anything permanently. It’s like you install it on a flash drive.
@DavidSikesII
@DavidSikesII Жыл бұрын
This is very cool. I would love to see some details about what it took to implement some of these things in code. Seeing how programming for the NES works in-depth would be very nifty.
@notthatfatboy6519
@notthatfatboy6519 Жыл бұрын
I love seeing people take the old systems I grew up on and still doing new stuff with them. Thank you for this awesome and informative video!
@samaiello7543
@samaiello7543 Жыл бұрын
Dude, criminally underrated channel. Found you through your Emerald Ambulation video, and been going through others as they pique my interest. The passion is here and your graphics and explanations help me actually understand things I’ve always had an interest in, but know nothing about, or where to start. Thank you, and I hope the best for you & your channel.
@MrMegaManFan
@MrMegaManFan Жыл бұрын
This is certainly more functional than that “Windows 95” for NES that was just a mock-up of a desktop with no real abilities.
@CrappyMusic-cb6bl
@CrappyMusic-cb6bl 7 ай бұрын
Well the windows 2000 version had some functionality if you played it on either a Famicom with a family keyboard, or a bootleg famiclone keyboard.
@flyinghippo5767
@flyinghippo5767 11 ай бұрын
This video is even cooler than I was expecting. Not only do you break everything down really well, but integrating NESOS into your presentation is really clever!
@ocpmovie
@ocpmovie Жыл бұрын
Computer operating systems have existed for the NES/Famicom almost since its debut -- the original Family Basic from Hudson Soft, and the many unlicensed "educational" Subor/Dendy multicarts which included (versions of) it later on (FBASIC, GBASIC). I've been meaning to translate "Bravesoft Windows 2000" which is one of those, and has several apps. There is some graphics compression we've had to undo first. People on KZfaq have dismissed the Chinese/Russian NES Windows "knockoffs" as non-functional, but they're not. A lot of the "functionality" is fake and just for show, but the applications are not -- and include takes on Word, Excel, DOS, and of course Family Basic (and its background art program, message board and music programs). And so on. Some of the later carts do a decent job of being an 8-bit computer, albeit in a style which was 20 years out of date at that time. Homebrew Family Basic programs were published in magazines at the time, and Gaming Alexandria has been trying to preserve them lately.
@ocpmovie
@ocpmovie Жыл бұрын
@@destructodisk9074 No, you have misunderstood based on a lack of experience with this stuff.
@Stillxxen
@Stillxxen Жыл бұрын
When I was smol kiddo, I've had nes knock off on keyboard, and cartridge which came with this System had Text Editor, music Player and educational games to which I was "forced" to play xD. I wish that I could have this thing again. I think that it was GLK-20XX. It looks like something I had :). Greetings!
@-Juba-
@-Juba- Жыл бұрын
@@Stillxxen Same here
@eddievids5033
@eddievids5033 Жыл бұрын
@@Stillxxen me too! it was great! The text editor even have printing functionality.
@Stillxxen
@Stillxxen Жыл бұрын
@@eddievids5033 wow, my wasn't so advanced :D. I could write, But without "printing" Part.
@itsgruz
@itsgruz Жыл бұрын
This is an amazing project and a fantastic video! Hope to see this evolve!
@istrasci
@istrasci Жыл бұрын
What up gruz!! You're awesome!
@AndyBrearley
@AndyBrearley Жыл бұрын
Game Genie codes for NESOS… 😅
@Typical.Anomaly
@Typical.Anomaly Жыл бұрын
@@AndyBrearley BGATES = A blue screen?
@AndyBrearley
@AndyBrearley Жыл бұрын
@@Typical.Anomaly 😂
@popyui7497
@popyui7497 Жыл бұрын
Incredible!, what an accomplishment for an 8 bit computer from the 80's
@promaster424
@promaster424 Жыл бұрын
Finally, one of my dream projects became a reality. I hope that you will continue working on this project and add more programs like a calculator, a painting program or at least a support for colored tiles on the word processor and a calendar or a clock if the battery can handle keeping track of them at all time
@mastersummersjr
@mastersummersjr Жыл бұрын
Very clever use of a system not at all designed for a general purpose OS. Awesome work, man!
@goofbug5328
@goofbug5328 Жыл бұрын
Wild how such an amazing channel has so few subscribers, really interesting work!
@grantm7046
@grantm7046 10 ай бұрын
Ever since I found out about the expansion slot on the bottom, I’ve wondered when someone would do something like this. This is truly incredible
@rockkiall
@rockkiall Жыл бұрын
Incredible work! I am glad you save some space for more in the future.
@carecoable
@carecoable Жыл бұрын
I never thought somebody would do something like this, but hey here we are. Quite interesting work! I wonder if you're planning on making this open source, since I think there are some people that might've thought of an implementation or two while watching this video, so making it open source can lead to more interesting things happen. Good stuff!
@alysdexia
@alysdexia Жыл бұрын
“that”
@RonLaws
@RonLaws Жыл бұрын
I was thinking on how someone could adapt it to work in something akin to a game genie, allowing you to plug in application cartridges :) not that i'd even begin to know where to start myself, but i could imagine someone who does taking it to that next level.
@pinkie723
@pinkie723 Жыл бұрын
@@RonLaws *lock on technology!!!!* 🤯
@GabrielPerboni
@GabrielPerboni Жыл бұрын
Excellent! I really liked everything, but my favorite part was that you ask the CPU politely. Kindness is an important virtue and it never hurts to practice it. Good job!
@SamCampbell
@SamCampbell 11 ай бұрын
This is awesome! I'm always floored by the ingenuity of custom ROMs like this.
@KartKing4ever
@KartKing4ever Жыл бұрын
Some of the coolest stuff I've ever seen done on an NES.
@draconic5129
@draconic5129 Жыл бұрын
One thing you should definitely add is a tracker to be able to make songs with the Famicom sound chip, maybe even be able to use the keyboard as a music keyboard (I've seen similar things done on other '80s computers).
@draconic5129
@draconic5129 Жыл бұрын
@MagicJungle7053 I wasn't talking about using sound samples I was just talking about using the sound chip's voices.
@Bro3256
@Bro3256 Жыл бұрын
I'm curious if you could possibly add support for the Famicom Data Recorder? Being able to save files on tape (or through digital audio recordings) would work pretty well as the Family Basic keyboard already has that functionality for read and write.
@Bro3256
@Bro3256 Жыл бұрын
(NESOS more like FamiOS am I right)
@doomedtoobscurity3965
@doomedtoobscurity3965 Жыл бұрын
@@Bro3256 we need a snesos and an n64os
@mattgio1172
@mattgio1172 Жыл бұрын
WowoW!!!! I'm so happy to see your channel finally getting the credit it deserves - this video blew up!!! I've been a huge fan ever since I saw your level on Kosmic's channel - I can't wait to see what else you do :)
@sdjhgfkshfswdfhskljh3360
@sdjhgfkshfswdfhskljh3360 Жыл бұрын
It's fun to do something first, and then think about why you did it and how it can be used in practice.
@suntannedduck2388
@suntannedduck2388 Жыл бұрын
This is very cool. Very good use of limitations for sure. I bet a fair amount of time and effort to get it running as it is, working with the difference to today with sprites and code.
@goranjosic
@goranjosic Жыл бұрын
Man this is so underated! More people need to see this video! :)
@theconfusingwords
@theconfusingwords Жыл бұрын
This is an impressive project you pulled off here, thanks for sharing
@lenzanari
@lenzanari Жыл бұрын
That is incredible! Now the final touch is to put this in a reproduction cartridge and print a custom nes box for it. Great job!
@xBruceLee88x
@xBruceLee88x Жыл бұрын
I wonder if you could add a basic calculator to it Pretty neat that you got it working this well
@Determinator21
@Determinator21 Жыл бұрын
You could make a calculator with that
@idiotontheweb
@idiotontheweb Жыл бұрын
Everyone gangsta until you divide by 0
@xBruceLee88x
@xBruceLee88x Жыл бұрын
Then multiply by -0
@QuantumScratcher
@QuantumScratcher 11 ай бұрын
@@xBruceLee88x -0 doesn't exist, the closest you can get is multiplying by 0
@JeoshuaCollins
@JeoshuaCollins 11 ай бұрын
​@@QuantumScratcher IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) has entered the chat: "Moreover, there are two zero values, called signed zeros: the sign bit specifies whether a zero is +0 (positive zero) or −0 (negative zero)."
@GXSCChater
@GXSCChater Жыл бұрын
Nice Stuff very cool! Great coding skills and nice options, I like the idea of deleting 1 byte to cancel a file instead overwriting the whole file.
@Captureman
@Captureman Жыл бұрын
Thank you for experimenting with the NES. I love what you do!
@mystikgaming9016
@mystikgaming9016 Жыл бұрын
This is actually insane! Great job man. This is really cool 😎
@jengelenm
@jengelenm Жыл бұрын
What a cool idea! And relatively logical progress for the NES at the same time. Given the 6502 was used in commodore 64 and numerous other old machines. Those had GEOS, so we already know it’s possible. Good job!!!!
@megapro1725
@megapro1725 Жыл бұрын
Change your profile pic
@XENON2028
@XENON2028 Жыл бұрын
@@megapro1725 dude he doesn't have to
@megapro1725
@megapro1725 Жыл бұрын
@@XENON2028 nobody has to put terrorist state flag in
@XENON2028
@XENON2028 Жыл бұрын
@@megapro1725 dude omfg people don't think the same as you, I don't think they are a terroris t state, so I can put it if I like, you can scream all you want but me and him probably woon't change it ever
@elimalinsky7069
@elimalinsky7069 11 ай бұрын
The NES has only 2 KB of RAM, which is a severe limitation. Although most of the data can be stored on ROM, an OS needs a lot of memory for variables, hence why 2 KB is not enough for a GUI OS, and also why this not actually a full OS, but just a neat proof of concept.
@michaelwarner7815
@michaelwarner7815 Жыл бұрын
So, one thing you can do to help extend the storage capacity is to implement NVRAM paging. Your Zero page would contain your file allocation table for the page numbers and specific addressing spaces.
@AD-2020
@AD-2020 10 ай бұрын
I've often wondered about this. Well done on doing this and thanks for sharing
@maxios-7613
@maxios-7613 Жыл бұрын
its so amazing that there is people who comes with these ideas and actually make it happen
@stephblackcat
@stephblackcat Жыл бұрын
Would be cool to have something like this that runs from FDS and can write to QDs so you can save stuff legitimately. Of course that would greatly increase demand for QDs.
@vampiric162
@vampiric162 Жыл бұрын
What would be cool would be if you could make a custom board for the expansion port and have the OS run off the custom board, and maybe putting more RAM on the custom board. Also when the custom board is plugged in it instantly boots up into the OS.
@lugxnyt2310
@lugxnyt2310 Жыл бұрын
Yeah it'd be cool to see how a Raspberry Pi Pico/Zero could be used in a NES, or Famicom.
@vampiric162
@vampiric162 Жыл бұрын
@@lugxnyt2310 yup
@ironrion
@ironrion Жыл бұрын
What a remarkable feat. Subbed for this video. Thank you so much for creating badass content like this
@Cyber_Akuma
@Cyber_Akuma Жыл бұрын
Maybe for loading of programs/files and even saving them you could use the Famicom Data Recorder? It's a bit of an obscure piece of hardware, but the Famicom had an audio cassette data recorder similar to computers from the 70s and 80s at the time, that feature was left over in some NES versions of games like Excitebike, which is why they have a "save" and "load" feature that doesn't do anything.
@UnrealSolver
@UnrealSolver Жыл бұрын
I love to watch people with skills to build something like this, you deserve more subs and attention 🍻 That’s hella cool 🔥
@kanesmith8271
@kanesmith8271 Жыл бұрын
Good to see that the new generation of creative minds has finally matured
@NOPerative
@NOPerative Жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Excellent study in resource management. Very impressive.
@CerisuHakka
@CerisuHakka Жыл бұрын
I'm kind of surprised Nintendo didn't produce any software that utilized the Famicom Keyboard beyond a simple BASIC interpreter. Imagine a reality where a fully-realized, true-to-its-name Family Computer with dial-up connectivity and a suite of productivity applications might have become a staple of Japanese life in the '80s.
@SireSquish
@SireSquish Жыл бұрын
Please do one for the master system so that we can argue about which one is better.
@Abraham_doestech
@Abraham_doestech Жыл бұрын
Man that's beautiful. Well done
@metal_bird
@metal_bird Жыл бұрын
Very cool! Awesome work on the implementation and explanation!
@tehrobotjesus
@tehrobotjesus Жыл бұрын
Nice work. Years ago I made a simple command line interface for the NES. I added a PS/2 keyboard interface to the cartridge though, instead of using the famicom keyboard. It could launch a very spartan brainf*** interpreter along with a couple game demos. I also called it NES-OS :)
@tombert512
@tombert512 Жыл бұрын
This is super cool. I know the NES had an Arkanoid pad, implying that there was *some* way to get analog inputs in there. Have you considered adding something akin to mouse support?
@adamp9553
@adamp9553 Жыл бұрын
Technically the SNES mouse can be used with the NES. It's the same tech. Only the plug needs to be changed.
@LongueQueueChat3
@LongueQueueChat3 Жыл бұрын
@@adamp9553 wow
@kip258
@kip258 Жыл бұрын
My man used my favorite music from all my favorite obscure NES games. Lunar Pool and Gun Nac are two that I have in my collection!!
@RetroJack
@RetroJack Жыл бұрын
Just downloaded it - looking forward to trying it!
@user-sf6xg2so7t
@user-sf6xg2so7t Жыл бұрын
Hello. More recently, an idea arose how, based on the idea of Famicom / NES, we can sell a new set-top box again, using old technologies. I think that you just need to take an 8-bit processor and create your new console taking into account the latest achievements: 4 ports for gamepads, a port for playing over a local network, a slot for a micro SD card up to 128GB, built-in weak hardware + a black and white screen in the gamepad itself to create a separate portable console on batteries / accumulators, support keyboard + mouse, light gun and transformer steering wheel (car, motorcycle, helicopter, boat and spaceship). And the most important thing in our future console is that it will make nostalgic adults buy our console again and again: 1)The same Operating System from your video. 2) And the coolest thing is the built-in game designer without programming. To date, the most convenient for me is the program for creating games Scirra Construct2. It is its weaker counterpart that can be assembled for our console. A little about myself: My name is Vitaly Orlov, I am 44 years old, I am an experienced game designer-screenwriter + 2D and 3D artist + pixel art animation + developer of 2d games on the same Scirra Construct 2. Data for contacting me. Skype: VitaliyOrlov3 Mail: scorpion438@yandex.ru There is also a concept of how to create a unique portable gaming console from a Rubik's Cube in the style of the recently released "PlayDate" with its handle on the side.
@WildVoltorb
@WildVoltorb Жыл бұрын
Sounds cool
@russellg5022
@russellg5022 Жыл бұрын
"Why?" A better question would be "how?" *Proceeds to answer the question "what?"*
@mattzocrazy123
@mattzocrazy123 Жыл бұрын
This is quite literally the single coolest piece of nes homebrew I've ever seen, the possibilities of this could be endless, I can imagine how sick a homebrew loader, like an everdrive or whatnot could be with an actual gui interface like this, obviously that would require a lot of effort but this is incredible nonetheless, I don't think Nintendo engineers of the time ever would've thought something this advanced would be possible on the NES.
@Schule04
@Schule04 2 ай бұрын
Nintendo made Family Basic, which is far more advanced than this.
@plumjet0930
@plumjet0930 Жыл бұрын
Congrats on 1K!
@f4keinternetgrll820
@f4keinternetgrll820 Жыл бұрын
Should have called it NEOS (Nintendo Entertainment Operating System)
@piousminion7822
@piousminion7822 Жыл бұрын
Why in Kanji if the NES was made for an English market? Would make more sense if you built "FamiconOS" instead of NESOS.
@fuarkstyle
@fuarkstyle 9 ай бұрын
wow impressive stuff. People are creating in all the consoles, amazing!
@TheRogueMaverick
@TheRogueMaverick Жыл бұрын
The quality heavily reminds me of The 8-Bit Guy! And that is NOT a bad thing! His channel is my all-time favourite! What I mean by that is the technical information is presented in a more friendly manner while not compromising the in-depth side!
@b3ans4eva
@b3ans4eva Жыл бұрын
Does it run DOOM? :p
@totallybonkers76
@totallybonkers76 Жыл бұрын
LMAO! 🙂
@sirkastic
@sirkastic Жыл бұрын
This is an app. Not an OS
@GDT-Studio
@GDT-Studio 19 күн бұрын
An app requires an OS
@sirkastic
@sirkastic 17 күн бұрын
@@GDT-Studio And an OS runs Apps. Show me an App this runs
@idioticcake342
@idioticcake342 Жыл бұрын
Wow, this is really cool. Nice work!
@sdjhgfkshfswdfhskljh3360
@sdjhgfkshfswdfhskljh3360 Жыл бұрын
This video made me think about what criteria can be used to separate operating systems and regular programs.
@joshuajerome1997
@joshuajerome1997 4 ай бұрын
can you please fix it most emulators on pc don't want to run it when it does it has like 9999 ways of crashing. it says there's a cpu error
@finkelmana
@finkelmana 11 ай бұрын
What a complete waste of time and effort for something absolutely useless and serves no purpose at all. I love it.
@WSNO
@WSNO Жыл бұрын
This is brilliant. Would love to see this idea expanded upon and to see a cartridge i could run on my own NES someday
@TechLokal
@TechLokal Жыл бұрын
Excellent work, man! :) Your channel is about to blow up. 🙌
@jamesfloyd6693
@jamesfloyd6693 Жыл бұрын
it's like over complicated post it notes. I love it
@superbritbros.5793
@superbritbros.5793 11 ай бұрын
This was fantastic! Thanks for sharing
@vampirelegs
@vampirelegs Жыл бұрын
This is so cool and I can't wait to try it out!
@mathskadarr254
@mathskadarr254 Жыл бұрын
An excellent video turned out, everything is well thought out, a very clear instruction turned out)))
@TrevinAdams
@TrevinAdams Жыл бұрын
This is really neat! Awesome job!!!
@douglasemsantos
@douglasemsantos Жыл бұрын
Wow! Great work! Congrats!
@CesarRosasJr
@CesarRosasJr Жыл бұрын
Okay, this was pretty cool, great work!
@firasnizam
@firasnizam 7 ай бұрын
good work, thanks for sharing
@namco003
@namco003 11 ай бұрын
My kid is getting into hardware and engineering type stuff. Gonna use some of your tutorials and see what we can come up with this summer
@EricGranata
@EricGranata Жыл бұрын
Pretty rad! 😮 Edit: Congrats on the Engadget article! I think you had like, 16 subscribers a couple of weeks ago? Glad to see your channel get some traction. Keep up the great work!
@1lovesgreatness
@1lovesgreatness 7 ай бұрын
Great Job! I love it.
@retsapb6319
@retsapb6319 Жыл бұрын
This is insanely cool
@SamLabbato
@SamLabbato Жыл бұрын
who could forget the NESOS paint app. I used to use that all the time back in the day.
@asadityas67
@asadityas67 Жыл бұрын
This is a beautiful project
@mjsteelewasabipunk6091
@mjsteelewasabipunk6091 Жыл бұрын
Amazing work! Thank you!
@ZeroStako
@ZeroStako Жыл бұрын
This was very interesting. Thank you for sharting.
@CableWrestler
@CableWrestler Жыл бұрын
Congratulations for hitting the algorithm 💪🏻
@alejandrovivas1027
@alejandrovivas1027 Жыл бұрын
What a legend only one ad in the beginning . Your so damn underrated
@EthanMLego
@EthanMLego 7 ай бұрын
This is amazing! I always thought about someone doing this.
@pierorago2353
@pierorago2353 Жыл бұрын
subscribed. youre awesome buddy. cant wait to see what you do in the future.
@FREESHMEAT
@FREESHMEAT Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much this helped a lot!!!! You saved my life
@notanimposter
@notanimposter Жыл бұрын
I’d been meaning to make something like this! Great work!
@Gunbudder
@Gunbudder Жыл бұрын
i love a good bespoke OS. one of my professors in college created a full OS for the arduino uno just to see if it was possible. it was barely functional, but it worked (with task switching)!
@Strange_Armour
@Strange_Armour Жыл бұрын
This is - beyond a doubt - a true testament to the power of boredom. Kudos 👍
@champion_991
@champion_991 Жыл бұрын
This is an awesome idea!!! Amazing job!
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