IntyOS
- June 25, 2003
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Remember back in the 80’s the “other” original game console, Intellivision? I remember a friend of mine had one. I can’t remember what games he had though.
Anyway… Slashdot points to a group of people has decided they wanted to see how far they could push the Intellivision console, so they have created IntyOS. This is an operating system written in CP-1600 assembly language. Must be freakin’ hard to understand that code!
This project was initiated just for the fun of it after a thread was started by Joe Zbiciak in the IntvProg discussion list about Contiki, another open-source operating system for very small computers. However, IntyOS is not a port of Contiki and does not have the same desktop environment, nor the same built-in tools. It was written from scratch in CP-1600 assembly language in order to fit exactly to the hardware specificities of the Intellivision. Its main goal is now to see how far it’s possible to go with today’s technologies on such a limited system from the early 80’s ...
A next step will certainly be to add an Internet connection
That would be very interesting to see. Check out the site. There are screenshots and more information on it there.