README

   1 Bare Metal BlackBox
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   3
   4 BlackBox Component Builder ported to bare x86 PC and runs without any host os.
   5
   6 Project goals:
   7 - Make BlackBox to be fully independent environment;
   8 - Make BlackBox easy to port to other os;
   9 - Learn BlackBox internals and possibly port it to new architectures.
  10
  11 Building
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  13
  14 Requirements:
  15 * GNU/Linux or any other *nix
  16 * BlackBox 1.7.1
  17 * GNU Binutils
  18 * Wine
  19 * Qemu
  20
  21 Firstly copy files from this repo to clean BlackBox 1.7.1 environment.
  22 See [ http://blackboxframework.org/stable/blackbox-1.7.1.zip ].
  23 Than just sequentially execute commanders from Docu486/Build-Tool.odc.
  24
  25 Current state
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  27 Currently BMBB in early alpha stage. It can boot on hardware that have at least
  28 16 MiB Ram. Kernel implements everything exept coroutine support procedures.
  29 Currently graphics not supported, but implemented simple textmode shell based
  30 on StdInterpreter. Host subsystem mostly not implemented.
  31
  32 You can call Init.WinterWrapUp and enjoy music on you pc speaker. :)
  33
  34 Kernel implements:
  35 * Whole BlackBox runtime
  36 * Serial driver for logging
  37 * VGA Text Mode driver
  38 * Access to BIOS services
  39
  40 Implemented drivers:
  41 * ATA Disks
  42 * PS/2 Keyboard
  43 * PC Speaker
  44 * Serial
  45 * Minix File System (Read Only)
  46 * VESA 2.0+ Graphics driver
  47
  48 Todo:
  49 * Graphics user interface
  50 * Mouse driver
  51 * Packed files
  52 * Writable file system
  53 * Full Host implementation
  54 * System-independent controls
  55 * PCI support
  56 * Networking
  57
  58 Hints
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  60 Press Pause/Break to interrupt executed command.