Dev here. When I was trying to port doom to my OS soso, I tried to keep it generic and doomgeneric was born!

Hey! I realized your PR months later and wanted to merge but it could not. So I add your project as a remote and cherrypicked that commit just to include your commit in the history! Thank you!

Dev here! I've just realized that you shared this. Thanks for sharing doomgeneric!

Nice job. It looks so impressive. I wish we could download an OS image to try it in a VM without having to build.

I chose x86 because I wanted to try the os in my ancient PCs like a Celeron 333MHz. And articles I was reading at the start was for 32bit.

That makes sense. It's been so long since I've seen a 32bit x86 (apart from single board industrial type stuff) - that I didn't really consider anyone would keep one around... Then again, we do have our old commodore vic 20 in a cupboard somewhere...

Yeah, and Lua is also great at dependencies. It doesn't depend anything :)

By using 4Mb pages, we can skip one step which is page tables.

In other words, Page Directory points directly to a 4Mb Page Frame. In 4Kb mechanism, Page Directory points to a Page Table which then points to a 4Kb Page Frame.

Thanks! Yeah it is my favorite editor and the os is entirely written in it :) In fact, doomgeneric is created just for Soso in order to port easily.

Thanks! In fact, I prefer camel case for functions. You must be saying this for HashTable and List functions. I came from C++ world (where i name classes Pascal case and functions camel case). I wanted to group HashTable functions together like a class and named them that way. Yeah, it ended up being inconsistent unfortunately. I named structs in PascalCase.

Thanks! I was going to go similar path you mentioned. Not 16-bit but in a way that is exe-like binaries and development with Visual Studio.

But it seemed to me that it is easier to support ELF binaries. And OSDev has great articles about elf files, binutils, cross-compilers, etc..

can't believe I never checked OSDev before... what a trove of info! I'll spend a while digesting there, thanks!

And deeper down the rabbithole: http://wikichip.org