Death Track (dt)

Death Track is a simple operating system, it is a toy, an experiment that helps me to see how suitable or unsuitable, convenient or inconvenient, the FORTH system is for creating a simple but usable general-purpose operating system.

Currently, only the 32 bit x86 (i686) architecture is being targeted, with intentions to also support the Zynq platform (dual-core ARM Cortex A9 system with programmable logic fabric - FPGA) as well.

Here are notes how to bootstrap the Death Track on a VirtualBox virtual machine. MINGW and Linux systems can be used for development:

• clone the Death Track repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/stoyan-shopov/dt.git
$ cd dt

• initialize and update submodules:

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

• build for the default target system (32 bit x86, i686)

$ make

If everything is fine, you should now have the dt.img file, which is a bootable floppy image for the Death Track.

Create a new virtual machine in VirtualBox, make sure you have assigned at least 8 MB of RAM for the machine, and make the machine boot from the dt.img floppy image.

That should be enough to get you started!

Happy hacking on the Death Track!