# ZenithOS The Zenith Operating System is a modernized, professional fork of the 64-bit Temple Operating System. Features in development include: - Fully-functional AHCI support. - ~~VBE support~~ 32-bit color VBE graphics. - A new GUI framework in 32-bit color. - Compiler optimizations for speed improvements. - SSE2+ instruction support in compiler and assembler. - Network card drivers and a networking stack.  ## Getting started Every commit contains a "Zenith-latest-XXXX-XX-XX-XX-XX_XX_XX.iso" in the root of master, which is a timestamped ISO build of that commit. It might not be stable. See the "Releases" page for the latest stable release. ### Contributing This basically a read-only repository. Everything happens inside the OS, as intended by Terry. After you've installed the latest release in a VM, you can make changes to the source. Once you've made your changes, you can make copies of the relevant files and put them into a folder, along with some kind of notes as to what you've done as a DolDoc document. You can then make a RedSea ISO file out of that folder by running `RedSeaISO("MyChanges.ISO", "/Home/Folder");`. Mount the VM hard drive in whatever OS-specific way you have to, grab the ISO, and send it my way; a pull request attachment would work fine. ## Background In around November of 2019, I decided I wanted to continue Terry's work in a direction that would make it a viable operating system while still keeping the innovative and, frankly, divine-intellect ideas and design strategies intact. At first, I was developing exclusively inside a VM and occasionally generating ISOs as official releases. This was not a good approach, as things broke and I had no way of telling which changes caused what. So I decided to scrap that and restart from scratch.\ Releases of the "old" Zenith are currently archived on the `mega.nz` website: - [Previous Releases](https://mega.nz/#F!ZIEGmSRQ!qvL6Wk6THzE-dazkfT6N3Q) Changes include: - 60FPS. - VBE graphics with variable resolutions. - 440Hz 'A' tuning changed to 432Hz. - HolyC -> CosmiC. - System-wide renaming for clarity - No weird shift-space mechanism - Caps Lock is reassigned as Backspace - Reformatted code for readability ## Screenshots 32-bit color!