SerpentOS
 

I am trying to pull an OS together called SerpentOS. I need team members or people to just help me code, so if interested just post here. The project will be an OS with DirectX support, a graphical user interface written by me in DirectX, and several programs (which would also be windows compatible) that come with it. This would be booted off of a DOS floppy and then run through the autoexec automatically. I'd eventually attempt to code my own (or find a public domain version of) DOS to run it on. This project would provide a very mobile gaming and programming platform with support for DirectX based games! If interested, as I said, post here (or in any other posts I make asking for help or members). Thank you!

Seems... ambitious. WINE took about a decade to get DirectX support perfect, and Linux took a similar amount of time to get into a robust, mainstream OS. I suppose you could rip elements from both, but we're talking a project that would last years, even with a team of expert programmers working full time.

wow, sounds like i'll do it, just hand me a check for $1,000,000 and i'm your man. I'll drop out of school too if you want. Seriously though, think about your request, and how much time it would take. Also, DirectX support would be hard as anything, and it would take many years, yes YEARS, to get it working. Look at the wineX project, it is functional, but no where near perfect. On top of that, programming an OS isn't the easiest thing in the world. And saying you have experience in Gamemaker has no relevance.

EDIT: Please don't cross post.
EDIT2: Nice timing averos, and nice comment, sounds like mine.

DO NOT CROSS POST! Read the forum rules or don't post.... your actions show that you are a person of very little respect.

If you keep cross-posting, you WILL be banned. It doesn't help that you barely have any idea what you're talking about in regards to your OS idea.

And/or intelligence.

Why use DirectX. DirectX only works with Windows. What if you wanted your OS to be portable. Here's what I'd do:

First download a graphical library like Allegro and use pure dos to boot the OS.

What is "cross posting"?

I've been programming for 35 years. What does that mean?

Making multiple threads with the same topic.

And don't multi-post!!