Intellivision Operating System Revealed

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the IntyOS site, which has released Version 0.2 Alpha of a "multitasked operating system for the Intellivision console." According to the site, IntyOS "..includes a powerful GUI which handles a mouse pointer, windows, menus, icons, etc", and 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" There's also a site mirror available, and the demo ROM is viewable in a Java applet.

Bye Bye.

[OS24Ever]

Bye Bye IntOS. Slashdotted in 0.33 seconds.

Games

[blackmonday]

But will it still play Burgertime?

Sounds like fun

[Cryect]

Sounds like it was fun to develop. Hehe now some people need to code lots of apps for it like P2P ;) And so how long before someone ask can the OS be used for a beowolf cluster?

The true test of an OS...

[Savatte]

can Doom run on it yet?

A mountain called Intellivision

[rdewald]

Why do this? Because it's there? I have a Tandy 102 without a working "P" on the keyboard someone could have. Maybe it would be neat to write a OS without using any P's.

Re:Games

[Surak]

Burgertime! Yeah! That was COOL game. Until I got a job in fast food anyway. :)

Was that released on Intellivision? I remember playing it on ColecoVision [colecovision.com], but I suppose since they were contemporaries it could have been released on Intellivision. :)

amazing

[Anonymous Coward]

whats next, getting linux to run on an abacus?

Who needs Mini-ITX now?

[binaryDigit]

The old Intellivisions didn't need a fan right? Just take the guts and stick it into a l33t case. It already has video out right, as well as audio. This could be a sweeet part of your home entertainment system or in your car. If you had a big enough cluster of them in your trunk, you might even be able to play a 8kbps mp3! I bet VIA is shaking in their boots, expect a lawsuit from them on these guys any minute now!

What, no NetBSD?

[sulli]

I swear, this is still more proof that *BSD is dying.

Disappointed

[MeanMF]

How come nobody has posted a lame joke about SCO suing Intellivision yet?

I bet he runs his web server on....

[Anonymous Coward]

YOU GUESSED IT! INTELLIVISION!! You win the right to GO OUTSIDE!

lamefiltersuxlamefiltersuxlamefiltersuxitsnottoo manycaps

Does that mean they finally released the keyboard?

[nzyank]

My first console was the Intellivision. Bought it so that I could program it when they released the keyboard. Still waiting.

Re:A mountain called Intellivision

[tarquin_fim_bim]

It could just work, when my right mouse button stopped working I invented the Mac.

Re:What, no NetBSD?

[Surak]

Of course, NOW someone will port it just to prove that *BSD isn't dying. :)

No penguins?

[paroneayea]

So wait, someone's installing an OS on a retro system... it isn't Linux... yet it's being posted on Slashdot?
What's going on here?

Re:Bye Bye.

[TopShelf]

That's what they get for running the site on an Intellivision as well...

Imagine ...

[Etyenne]

... a Beowulf cluster of Intellivision running IntyOS ! w00t !

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Re:amazing

[dasmegabyte]

I'd like to see linux running on my Incan quipu strands. They are, after all, binary. I'm willing to donate to the project, but I'm broke, so all I can offer to the coder is a terrace farm and all the guinea pigs you can eat.

Re:Hot damn.

[Anonymous Coward]

hehe ... he used 'Gates' and 'innovation' in the same sentence. hehe.

Once it works and has aps,

[pecosdave]

then what? Inty office? How long until vi is ported? emacs? Mozilla likes to run on everything, is Sun now obligated to write a virtual machine FOR the Intellivision?

Re:A mountain called Intellivision

[mkelley]

I'd name it P.O.S.

Re:A mountain called Intellivision

[mechugena]

Now, why would you want P on your computer? Doesn't that short out the electronics and make it smell bad?

Re:A mountain called Intellivision

[kguilber]

My other keyboard only has working Ctrl, Alt, and Del buttons. I use it for windows.

Re:Hot damn.

[MrScience]

I believe "Assembly Optimized" and "Bug Fixed" are mutually exclusive terms. Especially when discussing entire operating systems.

Re:What, no NetBSD?

[armyofone]

If someone does, I hope they choose to borrow this spectacular color-scheme from slashdot instead of going with the Atari GEM look that the IntyOS folks chose. :-)

Re:The true test of an OS...

[Virtex]

Of course! All you have to do is post an article about it on Slashdot and you'll be facing doom in no time.

Re:No penguins? No! It's SCO

[ketamineX]

Nope, you missed the link. When you compare the assembly source code from IntyOS to the code that SCO 'contributed' to the linux kernel, you will find a match.

SCO's IP is everywhere!

Ig Nobel candidate

[raistphrk]

This sounds like an Ig Nobel Prize [improb.com] candidate to me. To quote the website, "Every Ig Nobel Prize winner has done something that first makes people LAUGH, then makes them THINK. Technically speaking, the Igs honor people whose achievements 'cannot or should not be reproduced.'"

Sounds like we have a real winner, unless they've ported NetBSD to a toaster yet.

Re:A mountain called Intellivision

[ergo98]

What, is that so you can logon? Or are your jokes circa 1995?

Re:Hot damn.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh because you need a browser a mail client with mime, an IM client and you want to download crap from p2p networks and usenet while chatting on irc.
I believe we call it TELNET around here.