A Modern Operating System in 1.44MBs

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  • čas přidán 23. 01. 2024
  • In this video I tried out KolibriOS, an operating system that is so small it can fit on a single 1.44mb floppy disk!
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  • @leency
    @leency Před 3 měsíci +4201

    Greetings from KolibriOS developer and main designer, and thanks for the review!
    Hardware support is on the wiki. Some apps like video-player and DosBox are available only in full images suitable for USB / ISO / HDD.

    • @The14Some1
      @The14Some1 Před 3 měsíci +43

      Why wasn't he able to setup a soundblaster?

    • @leency
      @leency Před 3 měsíci +222

      @@The14Some1 only ISA SB16 is supported, no other SB card. Unfortunately.

    • @jasonrubik
      @jasonrubik Před 3 měsíci +22

      @@leency What's a good modern OS for a Compaq Deskpro 386S ? Currently it has Win 3.1 and DOS 6.22

    • @leency
      @leency Před 3 měsíci +160

      @@jasonrubik Modern OS for x386? :DDD
      Emmmmmmmm Win 3.1 is the best I suppose.

    • @tiporari
      @tiporari Před 3 měsíci +45

      @leency, amazing achievement!

  • @CrackyCreates
    @CrackyCreates Před 3 měsíci +2594

    >interested in random OS
    >owns old hardware
    >linux PFP
    >astolfo statue next to screen
    yeah makes sense

  • @dzeppetto3143
    @dzeppetto3143 Před 3 měsíci +412

    Astolfo figure on the desk. Bro is a real IT specialist

    • @arahok7675
      @arahok7675 Před 2 měsíci +3

      well, i have a super sonico instead, i think what astolfo means is a bit more darker :v

    • @crazyskill638
      @crazyskill638 Před 2 měsíci +13

      Bro is a re- ACK!

    • @defaultdan7923
      @defaultdan7923 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@crazyskill638complete random question, why do so many people do this? what does it signify? i’m genuinely curious.

    • @literallyshinjiikari
      @literallyshinjiikari Před 2 měsíci

      @@defaultdan7923 femboy

    • @jlo8863
      @jlo8863 Před 2 měsíci +7

      nice waifu ....... he's a man of culture.

  • @SocialPrime
    @SocialPrime Před 3 měsíci +544

    That is freaking impressive. Shows us how unoptimized modern software is.

    • @user1111AB
      @user1111AB Před 3 měsíci +77

      sadly its on purpose to hasten planned obsolescence

    • @22minecraftguy
      @22minecraftguy Před 3 měsíci +85

      @@user1111AB optimization is extra money to develop and why do it if everyone has like 8gb+ and 500gb+ hard drives nowadays

    • @jokubolakis6
      @jokubolakis6 Před 3 měsíci +38

      Unoptimized or optimized to work on various combinations of hardware combos, and having to support legacy software

    • @le9038
      @le9038 Před 3 měsíci +69

      @@22minecraftguy because if you can make it so that, that one game can put out 10+ extra frames. you could allow people to play at a higher quality rather than having to compromise on worse graphics.
      Plus, the assumption that everybody has a 4090 with the latest CPU and one terabyte of RAM is how we got City Skylines 2.

    • @2009dudeman
      @2009dudeman Před 3 měsíci

      @@le9038 The issue is a balance between optimization and actually releasing a game. The base of the issue is the massive data we have to deal with. Just take a single 4k texture, which many games now pack inside them. You aren't storing raw 4k textures, just a single raw 4k screenshot of my desktop is 24MB, compressing it to a .png reduces the size by 10x to just 2.4MB and JPG is smaller yet at 1.2MB. Thats important because a GPU can't render off compressed files, by nature of how compression works. So it has to uncompress these images on the fly as it needs them. So now thats overhead to deal with that you just can't optimize. So you either have a game like Cities Skylines that is 60GB or 600GB.
      Another factor for visual optimization is visual effects. A GPU does what's it's told, nothing more and nothing less. So when you want a fast frame, you need to make sure it can complete all instructions required to fill the frame buffer fast enough to display at the required frame rate. Each instruction takes time to process. Say you want to display an image on a billboard. It's one rectangle overlaid onto another rectangular space in the visual field. So once the GPU gets the texture it needs in memory it needs to calculate scaling which is a simple function, vertical key, horizontal key, rotation, other distortions or transforms, then it needs to convert that distorted 3d pixel information into a non-distorted square grid pixel pattern so it can be put in the frame buffer. The most optimal equations for doing this are already in use. The problem is we are asking it to do this millions of times per frame. Everything takes time and you run into issues where waiting for the silicon gates to change states becomes an issue so you can add two numbers using the most basic instruction there is.
      Doing all this by hand in code would be faster still. But that would take an entire lifetime to hand write and optimize every machine instruction in assembler. Not to mention every new GPU or CPU that adds or changes a feature would require learning an entirely new assembler language set. So we decide that releasing the game is important and create a high level compiler that we can write the game in and when it's time to write the game code, we compile it to run on top of an OS running environment, it tries to pick the best choices but there are edge cases that would just be too complex to automate so the compiler instead picks the slower and more reliable approach. This OS environment is yet another interpreter of sorts as it has to translate between the game engine and the hardware drivers, having an AMD or Intel CPU shouldn't require a different installer, having an i7-9700k vs an i7 12700k shouldn't require a different compiled version of the game. So again, we make decisions that are slower but more stable.
      Then we run into issues where you have dozens to hundreds of programmers working on the game code, a method one person uses to optimize game code may be just as effective as another persons method, but the two methods cannot work together, so you just pick a happy medium that both people understand how to write, even if it's not as effective.
      The result is a heavy leverage on people having more powerful computers because the game has to release at all. And since we want near photorealistic games with 4k textures and accurate physics simulations, we have to compromise somewhere.

  • @mikehibbett3301
    @mikehibbett3301 Před 3 měsíci +1801

    I'm one of the designers of MenuetOS (I wrote the TCP/IP stack in assembler for it years ago.) Feel free to reach out for more info.

    • @pro_gemer
      @pro_gemer Před 3 měsíci +44

      That's awesome! I don't know much about MenuetOS but considering that a 1.44mb OS with bloat (how?) was based on it then I'm sure that it was crazy well made :]

    • @lollixd6580
      @lollixd6580 Před 3 měsíci +4

      Hey, could you maybe tell me how start assembler programming?

    • @deltakid0
      @deltakid0 Před 3 měsíci

      Do you have twitter? Can I talk to you on Github? Gmail?

    • @deltakid0
      @deltakid0 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@lollixd6580follow Ben Eater's 8-bit computer build, after that I would choose a popular architecture to write code for, ARM is getting a lot of attention these days but there's also a lot about x86 especially for 32-bit which is much more easier and less restrictive to write code for than 64-bit

    •  Před 3 měsíci +18

      do you also need a tutorial for google and youtube?

  • @leblueawoo
    @leblueawoo Před 3 měsíci +5215

    I'm pretty sure KolibriOS was designed to be an experiment on how much functionality you can fit into a 3.5" floppy disk, hence why there's 3 of everything and more games than an old Nokia.
    Edit: As others have pointed out, this was a fork of said project (MenuetOS).
    How has YT taught me more about computers than any of my teachers did?

    • @benholroyd5221
      @benholroyd5221 Před 3 měsíci +96

      Old nokias only have snake? Contemporary ericsons had more games.

    • @leblueawoo
      @leblueawoo Před 3 měsíci +400

      ​@@benholroyd5221Congratulations, I certify you immune to jokes.

    • @benholroyd5221
      @benholroyd5221 Před 3 měsíci +120

      @@leblueawoo I'm not immune, just extremely pedantic and argumentative.

    • @leblueawoo
      @leblueawoo Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@benholroyd5221Very well. Have a good day.

    • @copperboltwire320
      @copperboltwire320 Před 3 měsíci +217

      @@benholroyd5221 In layman terms: Same thing

  • @zayneharbison
    @zayneharbison Před 2 měsíci +127

    Can it run Doom?

  • @savage5757
    @savage5757 Před 3 měsíci +41

    2:28 It's amazing, I didn't expect to see a graphical interface in such a compact Operating System

    • @andrejszasz2816
      @andrejszasz2816 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Well we had GeOS on the Commodore 64, a GUI. I also had a mouse to use it with ;)

    • @danbuc
      @danbuc Před 3 měsíci +3

      Amiga workbench 1.3 fits on a single disk too

  • @DankManDanny
    @DankManDanny Před 3 měsíci +944

    Would be good to see a series on all the extremely lightweight OSs out there

    • @PrivateSi
      @PrivateSi Před 3 měsíci

      Yep, but they're mostly old now or just stripped down Linux which is nothing special, 10 a penny. KolibriOS still works and is still developed. I've installed it on everything from a Pentium 3 to an 8th gen intel 6 core machine. Networking and even some USB wifi adaptors worked automatically and I could download more, larger software from their online library. You can even run software openGL engines (slow but it works). There are side-projects to get Linux graphics drivers working with it.
      --
      Most KolibriOS contributors are not natives of the Anglosphere so a lot of the posts are foreign but you can check the live development boards and things, some of it is in English. ReactOS and Menuet / KolibriOS should have had a ton of money thrown at them 15+ years ago onward by everyone pi$$ed off with Microsoft. Linux got all the support. Sad.

    • @MaxOakland
      @MaxOakland Před 3 měsíci +14

      Agree

    • @TheSimoc
      @TheSimoc Před 3 měsíci +20

      Wish we could have a mainstream one, like we used to.

    • @FireJojoBoy
      @FireJojoBoy Před 3 měsíci +11

      @@TheSimoc true, there are some modifications of like windows and stuff that remove bloat but I'm too much of a whimp to try unsupported versions

    • @dj1ch.
      @dj1ch. Před 3 měsíci +8

      @@FireJojoBoy the problem with those is potential security vulnerabilities and malaware. windows is proprietary and we don't know if such things exist on the OS

  • @Termini_Man
    @Termini_Man Před 3 měsíci +976

    It is crazy. it looks like it has a bunch of bloatware in the form of 3 of everything, but it obviously doesn't, and is very compressed. It probobly is entirely crafted for super-compression in the form of using raw assembly to build itself. That had to have taken a while.

    • @jimbotron70
      @jimbotron70 Před 3 měsíci +150

      Compression has nothing to do with it. Assembly coding is extremely space-efficient.

    • @TheRenegade...
      @TheRenegade... Před 3 měsíci +18

      ​@@jimbotron70That's what they meant by compression

    • @honkhonkler7732
      @honkhonkler7732 Před 3 měsíci +179

      @@TheRenegade... But its not compression. There just isn't a bunch of unnecessary code from C/C++ libraries linked by the compiler. It really puts into perspective just how much CPU power and storage space we waste in order to make it easier for software developers. Luckily, the raw power of modern hardware affords us this luxury.

    • @jimbotron70
      @jimbotron70 Před 3 měsíci +7

      @@TheRenegade... No, you miss the point.

    • @frithusama2798
      @frithusama2798 Před 3 měsíci +9

      So, while we use the term compression to refer to the process of converting information to a different representation of it via some algorithm, like zipping, compression in this case would be to squeez as much information in the less amount of space possible (as that is the meaning of "to compress"), so by simply designing all of this in asm, squeezing all this features in a single floppy disk was achieved. Thus compression, or at least I think that is what the op meant :P

  • @dfs-comedy
    @dfs-comedy Před 3 měsíci +17

    Back in around 1999, I made a single-floppy Linux OS for a client. He wanted a firewall that couldn't be permanently altered by an attacker. So the LILO boot loader, the Linux kernel, and an init script that set up firewall rules was put on a single 1.44MB floppy disk that was then write-protected. It did work, but I felt it was more a silly proof-of-concept than something all that useful.
    EDIT: But this one looks WAY cooler.

    • @satibel
      @satibel Před 2 měsíci

      Good job, I made a pxe boot to remmina in 8 megs and it was a pain.
      Though it was core linux based and needed a gui even with the init to rdp client.
      It did work on quite a lot of old windows 95 PCs. Though we didn't put the project into action as I burned out and left not that long after.
      I'm sad I don't have those sources anymore.

  • @keenoogodlike
    @keenoogodlike Před 3 měsíci +28

    KolibriOS can run on extremely low end machine and perform 3d rendering. So cool!!! This is hidden gem OS.

    • @SaraMorgan-ym6ue
      @SaraMorgan-ym6ue Před měsícem

      no mouse or keyboard it's more likely it froze or locked up🤣🤣🤣

  • @bricktasticanimations4834
    @bricktasticanimations4834 Před 3 měsíci +344

    This looks great for an OS that only requires 1.44 MB. I'm definitely trying it myself.

    • @Alfred-Neuman
      @Alfred-Neuman Před 3 měsíci +2

      It doesn't require 1.44mb, it's just the size of the floppy disk you can save the OS on...

    • @bricktasticanimations4834
      @bricktasticanimations4834 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@Alfred-Neuman Yes I know. I just worded it slightly wrong because I was tired.

    • @andrejszasz2816
      @andrejszasz2816 Před 3 měsíci +7

      @@bricktasticanimations4834also the system requirements are much larger (it expands the disk contents onto a ram disk) but it fits the dloppy when compressed

    • @bricktasticanimations4834
      @bricktasticanimations4834 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@andrejszasz2816 Yes, I'm sure.

  • @Insightfill
    @Insightfill Před 3 měsíci +568

    I remember QNX in the late 1990s. It was a "real time OS" planned for embedded devices, but the demo floppy had mouse use, browser, and a couple of games. Very cool.

    • @ergosteur
      @ergosteur Před 3 měsíci +32

      And now it’s owned by BlackBerry and runs on cars

    • @MaxOakland
      @MaxOakland Před 3 měsíci +2

      That’s pretty awesome. Wonder if I could find one

    • @gordon7478
      @gordon7478 Před 3 měsíci +18

      QNX goes back to the early 80s actually, and it's still kickin'. Too bad it's proprietary, because it has its charms. Would be fun to fool around with on open hardware.

    • @bloodybritbastard
      @bloodybritbastard Před 3 měsíci +1

      This! It had everything and with a frame buffer video driver that didn't require dedicated drivers and still got to a working GUI.
      I suspect you could have also done the same with Windows 3.1 at the time if you really cut down on the system...

    • @paxsevenfour
      @paxsevenfour Před 3 měsíci +3

      RTOS’ like QNX are a thing. Why did you put it in quotes? Lol

  • @w3m135
    @w3m135 Před 3 měsíci +12

    1:26 ASTOLFOOOOO!!!!🤯🤯🤯🤯

  • @ClockwickProductions
    @ClockwickProductions Před 3 měsíci +35

    For those wondering, his DE skin on his main PC at the beginning of the video is Platinum9 for XFCE

    • @second2050
      @second2050 Před 3 měsíci +3

      pretty sure the DE in the beginning is KDE Plasma 5 tho, looking at the notifications at the top right and the systray

    • @shezyam460
      @shezyam460 Před 3 měsíci

      thanks i was wondering about this

    • @ulbricht_
      @ulbricht_ Před 3 měsíci

      love u

  • @untitled_person1941
    @untitled_person1941 Před 3 měsíci +1184

    most people be using discord in 2024
    mate you're using discord in 1994

    • @michaelcallummayaka
      @michaelcallummayaka Před 3 měsíci +22

      ONline! If you know you know.

    • @gabinoliveras9064
      @gabinoliveras9064 Před 3 měsíci

      what os is he using ?
      @@michaelcallummayaka

    • @attribute-4677
      @attribute-4677 Před 3 měsíci +6

      People..be..using? 🙄

    • @T..C..M
      @T..C..M Před 3 měsíci +8

      “People be using” I bet you’re actually a rich kid from the suburbs

    • @T..C..M
      @T..C..M Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@attribute-4677exactly, it’s a sickness

  • @Choiman-mh4hw
    @Choiman-mh4hw Před 3 měsíci +248

    For audio, try the Sound Blaster 16 soundcard.
    I took a quick look at the source code, and it includes support for SB16 and Intel HDA, so this soundcard should work.

    • @whitewolf9705
      @whitewolf9705 Před 3 měsíci +3

      This comment smacked me upside the head with nostalgia hard enough to miss my windows 95 demo disk

    • @teckz0r
      @teckz0r Před 2 měsíci

      Best "cheap"sound card ever made ...((i am realy crying about the fact that i have had 3 pc in my live with them bad ass mofo's (to play some dos games) and i now am using scarlett shizzle that is 120 times the price and half as good)anyway the architecture of old software is so much better hell i mean them processors got how much better? While that old software loads, how much faster?we as a species are doing something wrong other than being jell us all the time and thinking about hard core prawns all the time...

    • @mr_confuse
      @mr_confuse Před měsícem

      ​@@teckz0r everything is a skinned chrome browser now. Easy and cheap to develop and deploy but extremely resource hungry.

  • @px9720
    @px9720 Před 2 měsíci +8

    2:40 old computer and astolfo is an interesting dynamic

  • @Dankmanwhodied
    @Dankmanwhodied Před 3 měsíci +11

    The astolfo figurine makes this video 1000x better

  • @edsiefker1301
    @edsiefker1301 Před 3 měsíci +150

    DOSBOX! Now you can play DOS games on your Pentium II!

    • @JoBot__
      @JoBot__ Před 3 měsíci +7

      😂

    • @martingamper6435
      @martingamper6435 Před 3 měsíci +12

      I tried that a few years ago on an IBM Thinkpad 600e with a 366MHz Pentium II on Windows XP (which does of course not make any sense to do on such a machine, because a real Dos based operating system could be installed). It worked great for earlier dos titles, but was definitely not up to the task for newer ones (like Elder Scrolls Daggerfall).

    • @DeskoDev
      @DeskoDev Před 3 měsíci

      ​​@@martingamper6435 I used to have that as a kid! Locked myself out of it when the CMOS battery died, though, since I had a supervisor password set. Tried to reset it the hard way some years back but ended up bricking it.

    • @jimbotron70
      @jimbotron70 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@martingamper6435 Try it now on modern hardware.

    • @umadbro4493
      @umadbro4493 Před 2 měsíci +2

      win 95 and 98 already have MSDOS

  • @dreamhollow
    @dreamhollow Před 3 měsíci +214

    Yep. As soon as you said it was an extremely lightweight operating system, I knew what some of the risks would be:
    You need drivers. Another big reason Linux has gotten so huge is not just updates to the core system, but the fact that Linux holds tons and tons of relevant driver files.
    You could theoretically keep nearly everything else about the system the same but without good drivers, it's only going to be partially functional compared to any other modern OS.

    • @anon_y_mousse
      @anon_y_mousse Před 3 měsíci +23

      I wouldn't be too sure about that. As long as it has drivers for the hardware you're using then it's more than ample. Consider that I've got a huge build of the kernel and it still only takes up 12mb. While that's beyond the size of a floppy, it includes drivers for hardware I don't even have. Imagine a stripped down kernel that only has drivers for the absolute most common hardware that people could have. Even a full install of Win98 back in the day could take less than 500mb if you deleted the bloatware from it. I'd love to see him install a network card and sound card and really test it out, because the last time I used Menuet it worked with all of my hardware, and Kollibri being a fork should mean the same.

    • @borstenpinsel
      @borstenpinsel Před 3 měsíci +18

      Ironically, terrible hardware support is what keeps me from using Linux and I tried a dozen times in the last 20 years. At one point people suggested to use wine to run a freaking windows driver or something. My old eeePC has winXP. Why? No Linux (Ubuntu, debian idk what else I tried) supported the hardware. Some didn't like my screen, others had no audio support and or no support for the WiFi chip. Either way, it was a literal brick with any Linux. This is not hate, it just baffles me when people say something like "it has great driver support". Idk, maybe in the last 5 years something changed but I remember a time when literally nobody could use their own usb printer because there were no drivers😅

    • @ineverknowdoyou
      @ineverknowdoyou Před 3 měsíci +14

      ​@@borstenpinselYea, there has been a lot of change in that sector, ive never had a driver issue, even nvida hasnt caused me any real pain. The only driver that was a pain was one for the led keyboard.
      Ive never had issues with printers either.
      But of corse i could just be the exception, im using common hardwere aswell.
      EDIT: forgot to mention ive only been using linux for the last 2 years.

    • @anon_y_mousse
      @anon_y_mousse Před 3 měsíci +11

      @@borstenpinsel That's the way it works sometimes. If you use weird hardware that none of the developers have, you're not going to get good drivers. I've been lucky with mine because I pretty much always use pre-builts and except for the Conexant soft-modem I had 25 years ago, everything worked out of the box, and Red Hat actually had drivers for it which I was able to use. Even my oddball printer that I've got now works, but boy was it a PITA to get working.

    • @kaoboom
      @kaoboom Před 3 měsíci

      @@anon_y_mousse my kernel is configured for my hardware and also takes up 12MB, so specializing the driver load-out probably won't save much as such.
      I also see now that the size has increased markantly over time 5.19 - +250kiB -> 6.0 - +420kiB -> 6.3.0 - -8kiB -> 6.3.2
      That is without any user configurable settings, except the compiler version, changing. That final decrease in size also coincided with GCC upgrading from 12.2 to 13.1.

  • @darqv9358
    @darqv9358 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Thank you for leaving in the NT startup sound. that shit is ORGASMIC

  • @MisterFrodo
    @MisterFrodo Před 3 měsíci +4

    man, something about that "this is not a drill" picture broke me. reminded me of how simple humor was back in the day. great vid man, might check this out on some old pc i got just lyin around

  • @8ullfrog
    @8ullfrog Před 3 měsíci +36

    You get a like just for that Aptiva. My Grandpa gave me his Aptiva when he was done with it, but then my aunt sold it at a garage sale. Thankfully it only had old games on it.

    • @SaraMorgan-ym6ue
      @SaraMorgan-ym6ue Před měsícem +1

      the fact that is has so much crap on it and it's 1.44 megs in size is just amazing when you think about it🤣🤣🤣

  • @KnucklesfanVideos
    @KnucklesfanVideos Před 3 měsíci +53

    This channel is such a gem dude, why does this have so few views? Also, can we get a KDE plasma config guide? Love the vintage mac aesthetic

  • @nemysus2280
    @nemysus2280 Před 3 měsíci +9

    You are the guy who randomly have a conversation about operating systems in that Microsoft survey.

  • @Sky-qd2jm
    @Sky-qd2jm Před 3 měsíci +2

    love the video style. impressive how much they can do with so little

  • @3zzzTyle
    @3zzzTyle Před 3 měsíci +114

    I trust this guy about computers because he's an Astolfo enjoyer.

    • @henryfleischer404
      @henryfleischer404 Před 3 měsíci +9

      Oh, that's the figurine! I should really get into Fate one of these days.

    • @ukemi-
      @ukemi- Před 3 měsíci +26

      everyone knows you need soft, small, feminine hands to work on computers

    • @mirai5268
      @mirai5268 Před 3 měsíci +10

      @@ukemi- why would you say that...

    • @scrung
      @scrung Před 3 měsíci

      @@mirai5268👈 do we tell him?

    • @synexiasaturnds727yearsago7
      @synexiasaturnds727yearsago7 Před 3 měsíci +2

      ​@@mirai5268it's facts

  • @treelibrarian7618
    @treelibrarian7618 Před 3 měsíci +44

    this reminds me of a system I tried out back in late 1999 (I forget the name), that was a whole GUI OS with all basic w95-type features on a 1.44Mb floppy - included a webserver as well as browser, I think it was a commercial project aimed at embedded systems before there was a word for that... made use of the fact it was a whole unified project so all functions in the code could be reused across all apps and OS features, no repetitions.

    • @flinkdeldinky
      @flinkdeldinky Před 3 měsíci +2

      Maybe you're thinking of GEOS (I think it changed ownership and is now called Breadbox).

    • @jengelenm
      @jengelenm Před 3 měsíci +1

      You confused me, because GEOS is for Commodore. What you’re talking about is PC/GEOS. Luckily there wiki to factcheck :)

    • @nicholascampbell3259
      @nicholascampbell3259 Před 3 měsíci

      It's probably a demo of the QNX operating system, as other comments have mentioned. Try searching for "QNX 1.44MB" for more information about it.

    • @skycaptain95
      @skycaptain95 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Sounds like QNX.

    • @breadtheloaf-tr1lo
      @breadtheloaf-tr1lo Před 3 měsíci

      BeOS? I'm probably wrong

  • @viacheslavronenko7278
    @viacheslavronenko7278 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Stumbled into it in around 2007, and it was very impressive even then, asm coders are into some magic.

  • @TroubleSeekerTeam
    @TroubleSeekerTeam Před 2 měsíci +7

    quite fun to watch

  • @Afrotechmods
    @Afrotechmods Před 3 měsíci +78

    If you are into this sort of thing there is also a 1.44mb QNX demo disk from the late 90s

    • @amogustroll69
      @amogustroll69 Před 2 měsíci +1

      HOLY DINGUS YOU'RE ALIVE

    • @a120068020
      @a120068020 Před měsícem

      I remember this - it was touted as the next Amiga OS or something. Not sure how that would have worked with the endianness.

  • @tessjdt
    @tessjdt Před 3 měsíci +18

    QNX is another real-time embedded OS that has a full feature GUI and network stack and sits on a 1.44mb floppy. They were purchased by Palm then Blackberry. A lot of automation uses this OS as well as Nasa.

  • @kevinh21labs
    @kevinh21labs Před 3 měsíci +4

    You're not old enough to remember that there's a difference between the PS2 mouse and other mice. The drivers were different back in the day.

    • @AlexMaurin-qx2xb
      @AlexMaurin-qx2xb Před 18 dny

      Most people aren't old enough to remember AT keyboards, either.

  • @amrkoptan4041
    @amrkoptan4041 Před 3 měsíci

    please don't stop, love your channel and videos

  • @davidrmcmahon
    @davidrmcmahon Před 3 měsíci +78

    NT4 has the best startup sound.

    • @michaelcallummayaka
      @michaelcallummayaka Před 3 měsíci +1

      Amen

    • @dim0n1
      @dim0n1 Před 3 měsíci +2

      I still have win 95 startup and shutdown sounds on my w10 pc :D :D :D

    • @michaelcallummayaka
      @michaelcallummayaka Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@dim0n1 I had NT startup on Windows 11 till an update removed it. Time to do it again but with the shutdown sound too this time.

    • @herrbonk3635
      @herrbonk3635 Před 3 měsíci +2

      No sound is the best startup sound. It shouldn't be needed!
      The "os" should be ready the same second you flip the on/off-switch,
      just like on a calculator, or any general appliances.

    • @HrHaakon
      @HrHaakon Před 2 měsíci

      Ubuntu 8.10 was even better. Those drums man.

  • @mhmtse
    @mhmtse Před 3 měsíci

    This is great content and also a great nostalgia for me as an old IT guy thank you bro!

  • @erwinvb70
    @erwinvb70 Před 3 měsíci +4

    That’s so impressive. This os might come in handy sometime

  • @fa1nnt
    @fa1nnt Před 3 měsíci +4

    you are going places im so proud of you

  • @alh-xj6gt
    @alh-xj6gt Před 2 měsíci

    thank you for bringing both OSes to my attention. these are awesome projects. maybe I finally push my fear away of directly coding in assembly and just go for it. Both projects seem to have an emphasis on ease of programming within it, which to my mind is just perfect. simple and easy enough seems just perfect.

  • @consciousape
    @consciousape Před 3 měsíci

    this whole setup is so cool bro, cheers

  • @wes773105333
    @wes773105333 Před 3 měsíci +3

    I had a kolibriOS floppy back when I was in highschool. It was cool to play around with when I was taking a Computer Maintenance class.

  • @Robospidera1
    @Robospidera1 Před 3 měsíci +54

    This is quite cool.. I’ve always been inspired as a kid I’d write small programs and applications with code a lot because you can save alot of storage space and have a program run really fast on slower systems. I remember back in high school teachers were very interested in my web browser I made that was only around 500 to 600 bites in size.

    • @leandroschmidt1292
      @leandroschmidt1292 Před 3 měsíci +12

      a webbrowser with 600 bytes?

    • @Robospidera1
      @Robospidera1 Před 3 měsíci

      @@leandroschmidt1292 only took up like 600 bits of storage

    • @wobogoat3379
      @wobogoat3379 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@leandroschmidt1292he wrote bits. That's only around 70 to 80
      bytes.

    • @lollixd6580
      @lollixd6580 Před 3 měsíci


      curl url
      system.out.print 😂😂

    • @deltakid0
      @deltakid0 Před 3 měsíci +4

      ​@@leandroschmidt1292no, he wrote _bites_ which means the browser bites everyone who's trying to get closer to it, like a dog or something

  • @ghazawe1
    @ghazawe1 Před 3 měsíci

    What a nice and chill video man.
    I just subscribed... Lets see what other cool and interesting video ideas you'll come up with.

  • @WaifusOnOldNokias
    @WaifusOnOldNokias Před 3 měsíci +12

    lol this is an interesting find. love seeing limited electronic stuff being pushed to their absolute extremes XD

  • @ancipital
    @ancipital Před 3 měsíci +52

    QNX done a unix based GUI demo on a floppy disk back in 1999 - when windows came on something like 38 floppy disks! They done it as a demo of ultra small real time operating systems for embedded systems.

    • @ancipital
      @ancipital Před 3 měsíci

      @@fadate7292 To be fair - in 1999 the majority of people still had dial up networking! DSL broadband started to get more widespread from 2002 onwards, for instance, in 2002, there were only around 200,000 DSL subscribers in the UK. I was one of the early adopters with demon internet and I managed to get it before the product had been offically launched via their owner company Thus literally within a week of the equipment being installed in my local exchange

    • @leency
      @leency Před 3 měsíci

      I was there... trying QNX on a floppy. A million years away.

    • @nicholascampbell3259
      @nicholascampbell3259 Před 3 měsíci

      I remember trying this out back in the late 1990s, with the tagline, "Take the 1.44MB Surf Challenge!" - back when people still referred to "surfing" the Internet. 😆 I thought it was cool at the time to fit an OS on to a single floppy disk. In fact, I think I still have the disk somewhere in my collection...

    • @Tuvazeock
      @Tuvazeock Před 2 měsíci

      I really liked QNX. I still have the install archived.

  • @adamholmes740
    @adamholmes740 Před 3 měsíci +29

    I appreciate the pause in speech to admire the WinNT startup sound ❤

  • @archdebiangentoo
    @archdebiangentoo Před 3 měsíci +4

    of course astolfo is there

  • @johnbillings5260
    @johnbillings5260 Před 3 měsíci +18

    I'm definitely running this in QEMU on my phone. I'm going to be productive as hell.

    • @TacitMarmot27121yt
      @TacitMarmot27121yt Před 3 měsíci +1

      how tf do you have qemu on a phone

    • @johnbillings5260
      @johnbillings5260 Před 3 měsíci

      @@TacitMarmot27121yt Limbo is based on QEMU. I've run up to Windows 98 on it.

    • @jkarra2334
      @jkarra2334 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@TacitMarmot27121ytby not using iPhone?😂
      I have Windows/macOS and Linux installers on my phone,
      Also carrying my macOS bootable Image on my (Android) phone.
      Qemu works fine under Android, there are few apps for that, Even straight from Google

    • @attilavs2
      @attilavs2 Před 3 měsíci

      @@TacitMarmot27121yt If he has a Pinephone it's 100% possible, and otherwise i don't know exactly but there are package managers for Android and stuff

    • @user-om5es2zp7k
      @user-om5es2zp7k Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@TacitMarmot27121yt Termux, termux is the answer of everything

  • @stitchingsteve
    @stitchingsteve Před 3 měsíci +6

    What an insanely neat project. I think those cpu eating 3d renders were part of the benchmark and gpu test tools inside of early windows, like win 95??. Somehow they seem familiar, the old man had many like it back then. The voodoo 3d benchmarks were fun to watch (I was just a kid)

  • @humanharddrive1
    @humanharddrive1 Před 3 měsíci +1

    just discovered this channel, great vibes

  • @b00gi3
    @b00gi3 Před 3 měsíci +3

    "One night I was hanging out with a couple of friends just looking at a bunch of operating systems". ...Wish I had pals like yours. Great review. I heard that early slackware was like this. Fitted on a floppy, did everything. There are videos on yt of Aboriginal Linux working on 386s playing mp3s over SSH from a remote server. 0__0

  • @Lukas-qy2on
    @Lukas-qy2on Před 3 měsíci +7

    There's something surreal about watching a nerdy computer topic, and being hearing the occasional "fUCK", surpringsingly funny haha

    • @wiegraf9009
      @wiegraf9009 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Given the reliability of computers in the 90s I can assure you their use was usually accompanied by the word "Fuck"

  • @boredSoloDev
    @boredSoloDev Před 3 měsíci +4

    Idk why, but when the windows NT noise played I just smiled.
    It was one of the first OS's I had on my first computer, I was 14ish and it was all mine. We had a family pc but I managed to get my very own.
    Just reminds me of better times

  • @calculatechaos
    @calculatechaos Před 3 měsíci

    ccol vid. I appreciate the format and straight forwardness instead of trying to be like everyone else on CZcams

  • @malcador
    @malcador Před 3 měsíci

    I really appreciate you letting the song play when NT booted. I miss this era of computing more than I can really articulate.

  • @ComeonmenID10T
    @ComeonmenID10T Před 3 měsíci +4

    reminds me on the good old Amiga Workbench 3.2, lots of things you could do from a minimal OS

  • @Astolfo-wk8ci
    @Astolfo-wk8ci Před 3 měsíci +20

    Nice video 10/10. Also, i love your Pop Up Parade Astolfo figurine! ♥

    • @WaterLex
      @WaterLex Před 3 měsíci +7

      this was the comment i was looking for, somehow i managed to be impressed by there being one but then i thought a bit more and remembered the guy is a linux user lmao

    • @KoopstaKlicca
      @KoopstaKlicca Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​@@WaterLexthere are two types of Linux users: 1) weebs 2) Luke Smith luddites 💀

    • @Astolfo-wk8ci
      @Astolfo-wk8ci Před 3 měsíci

      @@WaterLex Good point! That would explain mine aswell, haha.

    • @rangeramg
      @rangeramg Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@KoopstaKliccahow about both

    • @loliraki
      @loliraki Před 2 měsíci +1

      ​@@WaterLexI think he is wearing programming socks too... UwU

  • @danvasicek4122
    @danvasicek4122 Před 3 měsíci

    This chanel is great, I am glad I discovered this.

  • @LorenzoLopezVillalobos-sl5hn

    So happy I found this channel ❤

  • @FoxMacLeod2501
    @FoxMacLeod2501 Před 3 měsíci +5

    The numbered squares in Minesweeper tell you how many mines are touching those squares. It's not actually a guessing game, for the most part. "Start with the corners" is the kind of approach that makes me think this is probably novel information. Cheers.

    • @karpilin
      @karpilin Před 3 měsíci +2

      Most of the info in this video is "start with the corners" level. I'm glad that kids are playing with old stuff, but lack of context is almost insulting.😢

  • @Adam_M13
    @Adam_M13 Před 3 měsíci +3

    I watched all of your videos . I really enjoy them. And your soo cool .

  • @DomiaAbrWyrda
    @DomiaAbrWyrda Před 3 měsíci

    This is amazing! So much in so little

  • @havenpell
    @havenpell Před 3 měsíci

    awesome work on that demo. it was like watching a movie trailer

  • @bsdetector6908
    @bsdetector6908 Před 3 měsíci +4

    The Amiga OS, Workbench, used half of 1.44 MBs and it was multitasking...

    • @mihajlo20m
      @mihajlo20m Před 3 měsíci +1

      It used 720kB double density diskettes and was able to format it as 880kB, with different filesystems like pfs,ffs,afs, it was able to use even more - near 1MB. And it had a real preemptive multitasking.

  • @imark7777777
    @imark7777777 Před 3 měsíci +6

    MenuetOS hahaha that's funny I immediately saw the title and thought I wonder if this is related. Apparently it is. I believe I found out about the operating system from TechTV theScreensavers or call for help. Never quite could quite get it working right but it did run. Then there was an update and I could never get that running and then never got back to it. Well that's cool that it's expanded and been built upon. The idea at the time was quite crazy! A 1.4MB OS!

  • @dattatreyadinda
    @dattatreyadinda Před 2 měsíci +1

    I have this type of computer in my room but I was not using it but after watching this video I am going to revive it by installing this OS. Thank you

  • @TheTwober
    @TheTwober Před 2 měsíci +2

    _Pausing for the NT bootup sound_
    Normal people: wtf?
    IT people: _brief moment of happiness_

  • @the3boys2s74
    @the3boys2s74 Před 3 měsíci +27

    I love vintage electronics especially vintage, audio equipment from the 90s to early 2000s my fav brand right now is Sony and yes before you ask I have a Walkman I have 3,there not cassette tho it’s a format release in 1992 called mini disc,it lasted until 2014 when support was ended so it had a long run the last one they made is the rh1 in 2006. Also mini disc has its own emoji on the iPhone 💽

    • @keeper__88_
      @keeper__88_ Před 3 měsíci +2

      I have several sony equipment as well. A minidisk player, a stereo system for my old iPod, headphones, a camera. And same as you I love vintage equipment.

    • @ausoundTM
      @ausoundTM Před 3 měsíci

      Having two Thinkpads, one from the elder era with ibm(2003), and one newer from Lenovo (2008)

  • @Anubis1101
    @Anubis1101 Před 3 měsíci +7

    probably need to install codecs to play video
    the codec package alone could be larger than the OS

  • @mememe37
    @mememe37 Před 3 měsíci

    nn activity got me lol, nice video mate!

  • @stepheneickhoff4953
    @stepheneickhoff4953 Před 3 měsíci +1

    1:27 Thanks for that audio blast from the past

  • @xellaz
    @xellaz Před 3 měsíci +3

    ViewSonic crt monitor! I played a ton of OG world of warcraft, ffxi, and lineage 2 on it! Good times~ 😁

  • @michaelkeller5008
    @michaelkeller5008 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Damn - been so long since i've heard the NT4-Workstation-Introsound... Ah, the memorys :)
    Also KolibriOS (btw Kolibri - like the bird, not co-libri ;) is very neatly done :) Giving me the feeling of "tombsrbtn just with GUI". :)

  • @dizzarty
    @dizzarty Před 3 měsíci

    YASSSS Cosmic Osmo background. subscribed!

  • @paulwarner5395
    @paulwarner5395 Před 3 měsíci

    Nice video. I remember back in the late 90s put QNX OS on to a bootable floppy and it worked fine. QNX used to be used on Centigram voicemail systems that I supported.

  • @kon578
    @kon578 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Nice video. Btw, this CRT Monitor standing in the 360 hurts to look.

  • @connorruss5976
    @connorruss5976 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Written in assembly, of course it will be optimised. No wasted instruction cycles

    • @mikehibbett3301
      @mikehibbett3301 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Thank you :) Actually it's not as simple as that. We made it small, but being fast is a different problem. It was not fast loading webpages. But for us, that was ok

  • @Tex777_
    @Tex777_ Před 3 měsíci

    At first I thought this was going to be a video about someone who rediscovered Menuet, but it's cool to see someone made a fork and updated it!

  • @furiousducksgamingtechnolo6406
    @furiousducksgamingtechnolo6406 Před 3 měsíci +2

    I have to know what the theme is on my your main desktop! That looks beautiful.

  • @kabuokis
    @kabuokis Před 3 měsíci +3

    eyy Lithuanian made in : 0:57

  • @spytronx
    @spytronx Před 3 měsíci +3

    I'd say RISC OS is quite interesting, you should try it out. Its only for ARM though.

  • @htcbelyaev
    @htcbelyaev Před 3 měsíci

    i'm looking about kolibri for years. that's absolutely amazing project, that needs more investitions, just to show how good programs optimization can be

  • @gercekbko
    @gercekbko Před 3 měsíci

    Nice video! Also Astoflo looks nice!

  • @Zagroseckt
    @Zagroseckt Před 3 měsíci +6

    All those boxes and you didnt put it online............ FAIL!

  • @clochard4074
    @clochard4074 Před 3 měsíci +3

    May I ask you what DE are you using at the start? I love the System 7 look, reminds me of my iMac G3!

  • @Jarikraider
    @Jarikraider Před 3 měsíci +2

    The eventual update to 1.45MBs is going to fracture the community.

  • @GeekTherapyRadio
    @GeekTherapyRadio Před 2 měsíci

    100% trying this on my 286 Deskpro. Awesome vid!

  • @plapbandit
    @plapbandit Před 3 měsíci +11

    Jesus Christ, and I thought Puppy was small for a modern distro. (~250mb ISO about 5 years ago, about ~400mb for todays images)
    But this is genuinely insane. Props to the KolibriOS devs for doing the unthinkable

    • @andrejaga3003
      @andrejaga3003 Před 3 měsíci

      I've given up on Puppy and am now using Porteus 5.01 LXQt. There's too much extra software in Puppy that I don't need. It is problematic to remove it.

  • @georgemoodier
    @georgemoodier Před 3 měsíci +6

    Side note but could I ask where you got that classic Mac OS theme from? Looks amazing!

  • @DankManDanny
    @DankManDanny Před 3 měsíci +3

    Great vid mate!

  • @NostalgiaTechLounge
    @NostalgiaTechLounge Před 3 měsíci

    This is so awesome, I have to check it out myself!

  • @moonlambo5229
    @moonlambo5229 Před 3 měsíci

    That's an amazing feat of programming!

  • @joel06sk
    @joel06sk Před 3 měsíci +6

    Love the Astolfo figure on the desk!

  • @MaxOakland
    @MaxOakland Před 3 měsíci +12

    This is so cool! But my biggest question is how’d you make your computer look like MacOS 9? I love that

  • @QuantumImperfections
    @QuantumImperfections Před 3 měsíci +2

    In a world of constant memory / storage creep for every single feature release one of my new favorite video categories on CZcams has become "I optimize / they optimize / see this crazy optimization". Every programmer I know wants... no CRAVES to be so good at programming they do incredible feats such as this but there's always budget / time restraints to hold them back. This KolibriOS experiement is everything I wish I could create. Something straight and to the point + usable.

  • @rimzo2006
    @rimzo2006 Před 3 měsíci +1

    amazing too see what can be stored in 1.44mb go team

  • @AJarOfYams
    @AJarOfYams Před 3 měsíci +10

    But can it run Doom?

  • @westtell4
    @westtell4 Před 3 měsíci +3

    where did you get that linux Window manager that looks like OS 9