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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" Tab 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:

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!