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AmigOS

Responsibilities

  • Led two teams of CS students to create a C++ operating system and load a networked chatroom application.
  • Wireframed UI/UX Flow in Whimsical
  • Wrote keyboard input support and display.

AmigOS chatroom interface running on QEMU

Running on QEMU for x86

GitLab Repository (Private)

Roles:

  • Team lead / liasion
    • Worked between teams to ensure deadelines met. Modified plans accordingly
  • Keyboard-Integration team lead
    • Lead team to implement keyboard functionality direct from PS/2 serial input read by the operating system and printed on the UI
    • Attended semi-weekly meetings on project goals and updates
  • Chatroom-UI team lead
    • Lead team to implement all frontend for final deliverable using libraries from other teams
  • UI/UX designer
    • Wireframed UI/UX flow and integration needs using Whimsical
  • UI Developer
    • Implemented entire GUI solo using library from graphics team

Whimsical Board, Overall Project Design

Both of these boards were primarily authored by Daniel.

Whimsical Board, Client GUI (annotated)


Custom Build instructions:

  • download and install qemu
    • MAC USERS can install using homebrew with your preferred terminal application and brew install qemu
  • install make if you don't have it already and compile your program using make <testName> (via SSH, WSL, or locally)
  • download kernel/build/kernel.img and disk/<testName>.img to your local machine
  • change file=kernel.img and file=sysCalls.img in the following script to match the paths of your kernel and test name image files, respectively:

qemu-system-i386 -no-reboot -accel tcg,thread=multi -cpu max -smp 4 -m 128m -serial stdio -drive file=kernel.img,index=0,media=disk,format=raw -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x04 -drive file=sysCalls.img,index=1,id=usbstick,format=raw -usb -device qemu-xhci,id=xhci -device ich9-intel-hda -device hda-micro

  • (WINDOWS ONLY STEP): Add C:\Program Files\qemu to your PATH (search for "environment variables" in control panel)
  • open up powershell/terminal
  • cd to the same location as where your kernel.img and <testName.img> are being stored
  • run the script