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 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 what 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

Changes include:

• 60FPS.
• VBE graphics with variable resolutions.
• Added a NONE #define for use in default function arguments.
• 440Hz 'A' tuning changed to 432Hz.
• HolyC -> CosmiC.
• System-wide renames:
  • AOnce -> ZOnce
  • ACAlloc -> ZCAlloc
  • AMAlloc -> ZMAlloc
  • AStrNew -> ZStrNew
  • Adam -> Zenith
  • Seth -> Daemon
  • BEqu -> BEqual
  • Bwd -> Backward
  • Cfg -> Config
  • Chg -> Change
  • Chk -> Check
  • Cmp -> Comp
    • (Compiler. CCmpCtrl->CCompCtrl, etc)
  • Cmp -> Compare
    • (StrCmp->StrCompare, etc)
  • Cnt -> Count
  • Cpy -> Copy
  • Cvt -> Convert
  • Dbg -> Debug
  • Dft -> Default
  • Drv -> Drive
  • Dsk -> Disk
  • Evt -> Event
  • Fmt -> Format
  • Fwd -> Forward
  • Glbls -> Globals
  • Hndlr -> Handler
  • Lst -> List
  • Ms -> Mouse
  • Msg -> Message
  • Pkt -> Packet
  • Pmt -> Prompt
  • Prs -> Parse
  • QSort -> QuickSort
  • Que -> Queue
  • Rem -> Remove
  • Rst -> Reset
  • Rqst -> Request
  • Scrn -> Screen
  • Snd -> Sound
  • Srv -> Server
  • Stk -> Stack
  • Stmt -> Statement
  • TempleOS -> ZenithOS

Screenshots

32-bit color!