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Announcements And Comments > Bricks-OS, Operating System for Game Consoles

#164217 - Maximus32 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:57 pm

Hello Everyone,

I would like to announce the Bricks-OS project. Bricks-OS is an operating system for game consoles.

The list of currently supported game consoles:
    - Gameboy Advance
    - Nintendo DS
    - GameCube
    - Playstation2
    - Playstation Portable
    - Wii
    - i386 PC (not really a Game Console :-)

The list of current features include:
    - Preemptive multitasking (even on the GBA and NDS)
    - Message passing
    - Hardware OpenGL implementation (on some consoles)
    - Software OpenGL implementation (for all consoles not supporting hardware 3D)

Binary versions of the latest release (v0.0.3) can be downloaded, demonstrating a Software OpenGL implementation (GBA, GC, Wii, PC, PSP), and a Hardware OpenGL implementation (NDS, PS2). The source can be downloaded using SVN, hosted by sourceforge.net.

Please take a look at my website for more information, screenshots and downloads:
http://bricks-os.org/

This is my first release, so please let me know whet you think.


Maximus32

#164227 - tepples - Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:20 pm

Maximus32 wrote:
- Wii

How do you plan to respond to today's IOS changes that block installation of fake-signed channels?

Quote:
- i386 PC (not really a Game Console :-)

There are multiple definitions of "game console".
  1. Computer primarily designed to play interchangeable video games.
  2. Computer primarily designed to play interchangeable video games, and having enough controls and a large enough monitor for more than one player on one machine.
  3. Computer primarily designed to play interchangeable video games, and having a lockout mechanism to block the use of video games made by indie developers.

The market failure of the past couple decades is that nearly all B are also C.
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#164232 - Maximus32 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:54 pm

Quote:
How do you plan to respond to today's IOS changes that block installation of fake-signed channels?

I don't know about that, but Bricks-OS is only provided as a .dol file for the Wii, I'll leave loading the file up to a loader.