A 16-bit keyboard controlled operating system based on MikeOS 4.5, aimed to be more advanced and lightweight on the inside, but simple and easy to use on the outside.
- Many applications/kernel API calls have been improved/rewritten (both in UI and under the hood) + many new custom applications
- Customizable user interface (custom background, window colors, selectable font, screensaver etc.)
- On-screen clock with timezone support
- AdLib synthesizer support (including primitive PWM emulation via PC speaker) - music file player included (as well as a bunch of example files)
- Lots of new kernel API calls
- ZX7 decompression
- flexible UI elements with keyboard input callbacks
- VGA graphics drawing functions (lines, boxes, polygons, circles)
- interrupt handling (including a friendly timer interrupt handler)
- math functions
- sound abstraction layer (for both PC speaker and the AdLib)
- Loading of compressed applications (ZX7 compressed)
- Certain kernel modules are decompressed at runtime, saving precious memory (also ZX7 compressed)
- System-wide keyboard shortcuts
- etc.
Please check out the gallery to see the words above in action.
- Intel 80386 or higher, Pentium recommended
- At least 128-ish kB RAM, 256 kB recommended
- A VGA video card
- A keyboard
More screenshots are available in the gallery.
For building the OS, a Unix-based system is required (Linux, BSD, WSL, macOS) with NASM, mtools, Python 3 and make installed. DOSBox is required for testing MichalOS builds (QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware etc. could also be used, but you will be met with limited functionality). mkisofs is needed only if you want to generate an ISO image for CDs by running make iso.
On Debian GNU/Linux (and its derivates, such as Linux Mint or Ubuntu), these requirements can be met by running sudo apt-get install nasm mtools make dosbox python3.
On macOS, first install Homebrew and then run brew install nasm mtools dosbox python from the Terminal.
Then, you can simply build the image by running make.