Is This Plausible: A GUI-based OS in CC 1.75?

Ok, this mod is actually a good one, but I'm sticking with MC 1.7.10, until the modding scene for later versions get more. . . mature in content, like GregTech-gets-ported-over-to-1.11+ mature.

More to the point, is it actually feasible to build a better OS for ComputerCraft 1.75, because CraftOS is too much like PC-DOS, and I'd prefer an Amiga Workbench-based OS. If it's not possible without going to MC 1.8.9, thanks for letting me know, irregardless.

Well, LyqydOS has been around since October 2012. So yes, it's possible.

Building an OS on top of CraftOS is completely possible. Building an OS to use other than CraftOS without having to use CraftOS as a backend is impossible without modifying the jar.

CLNinja, on 21 February 2017 - 09:20 PM said:

Building an OS to use other than CraftOS without having to use CraftOS as a backend is impossible without modifying the jar.

Not so; look into the TLCO technique.

Bomb Bloke, on 21 February 2017 - 11:04 PM said:

CLNinja, on 21 February 2017 - 09:20 PM said:

Building an OS to use other than CraftOS without having to use CraftOS as a backend is impossible without modifying the jar.

Not so; look into the TLCO technique.

I completely forgot about TLCO's. They still run into the same restrictions that CraftOS has, so theres not much that i can think of that a TLCO will give you, aside from getting rid of rednet at the BIOS level.

CCtweaks said:

Boot from custom bios.lua file

Source: https://github.com/S...ks-Lua#features

If you make your custom bios extremely thin (i.e. it just runs a file) then every computer can have a different custom OS. However, you will need to bootstrap your first computer so that it can make OS's for the other machines or make sure that the default bios runs if no custom one is found.