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Some explanation about games and othe quirks of KolibriOS. KolibriOS is being developed by small community of about 30 people (maybe more), mostly from past-soviet countries. This explains, for example, why speed test tried to download a file from tele2 domain (this is Russian network provider). Clicks, Reversi, Lines and Lights were pretty common on IBM-PC compatable computers in Russia and close countries after Soviet collapse. And KFAR is named like that because there is a program called FAR, developed by Russian programmer Evgeniy Roshal, who, by the way, developed RAR archivation algorythm. So, this FAR program is pretty popular in post-soviet countries among IT-specialists because of it's powerful functionality and small size, so KFAR is, in a sense, nod to that program. I don't, by the way, state, that this is purely Russian OS or anything like this. I just did give some context about oddities. KolibryOS is a product of multinational team and should be seen as an example of such.
Multinationals with the same/similar origin. Still impressive nonetheless as few if any other modern OS could even think about fitting into a single floppy disk. Granted, the driver situation is kinda bad, but you can’t ask too much for a system compressed into 1.3MB disk image.
Actually, Tele2 is a Swedish mobile provider, russian Tele2 isn't owned by them, it only shares the brand name. But I do I see latinized russian in application names, (Palitra - palette, Kosilka - lawnmower, etc.). Also, I see a Seawar game, which also used to be popular in post-soviet countries. Far file manager is of russian origin too. And the Lines game.
if you want another OS with video game aesthetics, I recommend pacarana abel cirilo's OsakaOS. It's an OS based on Osaka from Azumanga Daioh that runs on ring 0 and is intentionally designed to mimic the feel of a video game operating system while being perfectly usable. abel uploads update videos explaining the OS's development progress and how it works, but he's taking a break right now.
Man these videos are the reason I love your channel. The oddball Windows stuff is great too but these overviews of these weird unheard of OSes are what I love. And the fact that it's not just another Linux distro is kind of insane to me. Weird assembly based OS that runs from a floppy? Top shelf.
humming birds are known more for being fast, there are plenty of birds that are as small but not many that flap their wings so fast. But yeah, both makes sense.
I think the Ethernet driver was working. But you didn’t configure the network. Maybe you had to setup DHCP or maybe try to setup a manual IP address… You even had the window for network setup open 😅
I tried all of that when I was troubleshooting off camera, just didn't feel the need to include it because I couldn't get anything to work. The configure menu allows you to change DHCP settings. Even disabling it and entering the values manually didn't get the system to come online unfortunately.
Maybe there is a bug in the drivers! Try a bunch of different cards and see if there is 1 that actually works.. I remember Linux in the mid 90s and early 2000s network cards and modems was the biggest issue.. my 486 DX4 100 could run most Linux distros but 80% didn't support my 56k modems or my network cards which killed Linux for me back then I didn't know anything about compiling the kernel or drivers so if I had any hardware issues it was a instant format and move on to the next distribution eventually landing back on win95 because it just works best for the hardware I had. So maybe report the bug and check the site for any other information to get network cards working or maybe they have other drivers for download. Even check to see if there's any other people uploading software they have made for the os as they might have a 3rd party driver possibly.
Or see if you find someone who has the os fully working and ask them how and if it just worked for them find out what their hardware configuration is.. also the download might have got a tiny bit corrupted during the download or transfer to floppy and has killed a system file or corrupt driver package.. it could be heaps of things really 😆 but a part 2 would be great to see it online and what the issue was and how to fix it as this is is perfect for my kids at school it has everything and my 6th gen Intel core i5 laptop with 16gb DDR4 would be perfect for this is it would be fast and efficient and do everything it needs to do plus play games.
21:02 WoW, you've found that miracle game! I was searching for it kinda two decades. On our 386 it was named Goose (never found out why...). Now I can finally get my hands on this miracle again! Great Thanks!
@@adriandangelo3029for me it was the game Tyrian. I played hundreds of hours on our 386. But i forgot the name of the game long ago and could not fond it since 10-15 years.
That Tetris icon is actually straight copyright infringement. It's the game icon that shows up on the Nintendo DS menu for the game Tetris DS. that's awesome.
Additionally, the version of 2048 at 21:04 appears to be based off of an open source implementation of 2048 built for libretro (retroarch). It's strange to see such a mishmash of open source stuff and uncreatively cobbled together crap. I wouldn't be surprised if none of these games were coded by the original kolibri os devs but instead we're just commandeered with or without attribution.
Talking of non-Linux OSes, I was about to suggest Icaros Desktop, which is compatible with Amiga software but, unlike MorphOS, runs on x86. However, something seems off with their website lately, as the download page doesn't work. Maybe there are older versions available somewhere.
It's been a long time since I last tried Icaros, possibly ten years. Anyway, "Installing Icaros Desktop But Everything Goes Wrong" would be a great video for this channel!
This reminds me of where QNX Disk OS was several decades ago. Running a full blown OS of a disk. The compression was just crazy when you know the floppy is just 1.44MB & the disk had a different total space to the disk & it was quick.
Oh, it's not compression. It's that the entire thing is written in assembly. So you were half-right when you wrote the word "crazy", you just didn't narrow down the actual insanity.
@@cubehead-existswhen I was going to college for Sysadmin the IT guy and I DDoSed the school's Internet trying to crash a computer. We made a script to open and play the 10 hour video of Gandalf bobbing his head. After about the 5 minute mark he started getting calls about the Internet being extremely slow. We did not get the computer to crash sadly but we did get it to the point that it took the mouse almost a full minute to move.
Well the original W95 did not run from floppy but technically this does not either. W95 first release came on 13 floppy disks and had to be installed on a HD before it could run. This OS has to be installed on a ram disk before it can start.
Believe Kolibri is one of the few OS projects that runs completely in RAM (the installer and bootloader fits on a floppydrive but after uncompression all of the processes are done from RAM and not your HDD/FDD or SSD
You can run just about any Linux live environment from RAM. Just add "toram" or "copytoram" (for arch) as kernel parameters. I do it all the time when I need to test multiple machines but only have one usb drive.
Virtual machine on a Windows 11 PC to emulate a Windows 7 machine which runs in Windows XP mode to then run Kolibri and then run dos box to then run DOS to run Doom.
Thanx for the video. I remember when I workd on Centigram voicemail systems back in the 1990s running QNX OS you could download an image to fit on a 1.44 floppy that was an OS on a disk.
Sounds like how I used internet at mom's workplace before USB. Compress and split to 1.4M a Screensaver, maybe 4 to 8 floppies. Also tried to search altavists how to install Linux, and looking back at it I think I downloaded a set of floppies for a mainframe. And printed a 50 page instruction for it. That didn't work on my computer, I think my first experience with Linux was Knoppix from a magazine. Then Mandriva from a magazine, and switched full-time when Ubuntu was released and they would send you a free CD in the mail
I remember playing with this years ago and being utterly amazed that these folks wrote an entire operating system in assembly language! That's why it runs so fast and is so small. Very talented team of programmers.
I've been obsessed with this OS all week, I thought it was an MJD video that turned me on to it in the first place but I guess that was just Haiku. I'm messing about with having it installed on an old laptop hoping to do some programming in it, aparently there's a stripped down Pascal compiler but it's been tough finding information about what it can do with OS hooks and such since a lot of it is either undocumented or documented very well so long as you are fluent in Russian.
When I was testing MenuetOS back in the 2000s I needed to manually config the IP, net mask, gateway in the window that was shown with the zeros..because for some reason the DHCP functionality was not working, but after manually put the config I was able to connect to Internet from the floppy booted OS.
That is pretty impressive. I got quite alot of use out of early ramdisk based OS's. WAAAY back in the day I used QNX, which also fit on a floppy disc, but was pretty much just a modem dialler, TCP/IP stack and web browser and GUI. It did work very well and reliably. got me out of a pickle more than once. I also used SLAX for a good few years as my main OS, as I was traveling, couch surfing, and staying between a few places. was really nice to have the same OS anywhere I went on a USB stick, configured just how I wanted it, on any random computer. I also didnt have to worry that the machine I was on had any viruses or malware, and I didnt leave a trail of my Data or logins or anything. running entirely from RAM, SLAX felt so fast to use, even the most geriatric boat anchor was smooth to use. sure, it took ages to boot, but that was a fair price to turn any PC into your PC, and with enough RAM, faster than anything ive used up to this day. sure did freak out a few people, seeing their machine become something completely different. some took a level of offence, some wanted a copy, just cos it went so fast. RAM-disk based OS's are next level. unfortunately it stopped getting updated, and once the browser got depreciated it kinda killed the whole thing. but by then I could afford a decent laptop and didnt need to borrow machines. It absolutely had its downfalls, and was a bit of a pig to get set up, but once running was one of the best OS's ive ever used. PS; Tyrian is one of my absolute favourites. give it a play, its rather good (understated)
Few weeks ago, while plaing with my Pentium1@100, 64MB RAM, Ati3D Rage PCI, I tried the floppy version of this OS. It work very well, except the network card that was not detected (a standard NE2000 ISA card) Also, the sound was also not audible, I have there a ISA Creative SB16. Strangely, the HDD was not visible, probably due to the BIOS limitations.
About that one pong 3 game: I think the reason why the inputs were slightly delayed is because they behave like they do on a word document or something similar. One press gets accepted instantly, but when you try to hold a key down, it takes a second to register your input.
I remember running this back in the day on a Packard Bell Legend 1540 Supreme. It think it's almost the oldest video on my channel from back in 2012? Such a neat little OS.
Fun stuff, had to go try on VMWare, ridiculous how fast it boots. Web was... finicky at best. What gave me some pause is that Quake was only getting 400fps while on WinUAE i can get ~600 even though it's emulating a 68k. Guess VMWare's VESA emulation is meant to be stable not fast. Anyway, fun to see some successors to the famous QNX Demo Disk, even if a tad unstable and unpolished...
MenuetOS was great to play with and learn (ASM) many years ago. Still is, but with the plethora of OSes available these days, you can drown in variety. Kolibri sounds equally as interesting for enthusiast OS exploring.
> Never heard of Tyrian before... Brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. It's amazing. One of the best top down shooters ever.
I've used that in the past as a way to move around/copy data and to fix issues. Been ages, I might grab the USB image and toss it on my ventoy drive if it plays nice with that setup. I have a few Linux live discs, including a persistent one, for those tasks these days, but with how resource friendly this is, just have a solid file manager and text editor is nice.
He didn't even mention the craziest part: *this entire OS is written in nothing but assembly!* That's how they can get it small enough to fit on a floppy disc. Madlads doesn't even begin to describe a person willing to write an entire operating system using assembly.
Used a keychain-OS for a while myself, it was larger than this distribution but similar. Had network driver for basically every PC I walked up to in the day. This is so tiny it could be installed in the BIOS flash, it is that small - and obviously comes with a lot of functionality. I used mine for browsing the web and email and troubleshooting. Especially the TFTP server came in handy when I had something new to set up.
Hey, I remember this! I played around with it as a kid. It couldn’t detect my mouse and overall it was a very surreal experience. But it had some pretty nifty games.
At 20:59 Tyrian.... That was a major game! Came out as shareware in the early 1990s. It's a vertically scrolling flying shooter. Sometime later, the original author released it and some expansions as freeware called Tyrian2000. You should try playing it, it's awesome!!
Wow. That is the best thing to use an old computer with 2 months old and 2 weeks and 2 days old Operating system that supports over 3 decade old Computers especially this one that has been 27 years old and he showed us that fits on a single 1.44MB 3.5' floppy disk.
0:01 man I remember this vid your were installing vista on the 98 pc and to add the new graphics card I think to load aero theme and you found it on one of your DVD drives and the GPU was a blue color
That's funny... Would Pong 3 work based on text input? Like, you press left, it moves left one bit, stops, then the repeat functions come in play and you start moving more... Hmmm....
so is this how skynet infects the network with its self-replicating worm os variant, just the size of a floppy disk? 26:17 tnx MJD for delivering us OS-tans once again.. kawaii
So, WHAT program did you use to write the IMG file to the Floppy. I am having a heck of a time getting WinImage to work... EDIT: The NEW version of WinImage doesn't play well with Win 11. I DL version 8.5 and it worked perfect. so????
This is so cool, I'm gonna try this out on my own 98 and XP machines. Now here is a fun question, we can boot live from Floppy and CD, what about a 100mb Zip drive or other media?
Tried Kolibri a couple of times on various computers (Asus, Dell, Lenovo) and I always got it working...without internet. On none of my test-pc's (I did 3 makes and 6 models) it did not seem to recognize any of the network interface cards. I wasn't expecting it to see the wifi cards, but had my hope somewhat set on the regular NIC and utp. Alas, never got it going. So, apart from an interesting look at a "hobby project", I do not consider Kolibri a workable solution. Maybe in a post-apocalyptic world, where you would have a lone computer as your only resource and then you could fit this OS on it...yeah, maybe? Let's never find out....
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Good content, Michael!
Maybe next, try Tiny Core Linux
@MichaelMJD
It's Knoppix meets TempleOS 😁
@@retrogooniegamer
Agreed, that was wild. Like Michael I find unique (non-Win, non-Lin) OSes fascinating.
Can this be used on a modern pc?
Some explanation about games and othe quirks of KolibriOS.
KolibriOS is being developed by small community of about 30 people (maybe more), mostly from past-soviet countries. This explains, for example, why speed test tried to download a file from tele2 domain (this is Russian network provider). Clicks, Reversi, Lines and Lights were pretty common on IBM-PC compatable computers in Russia and close countries after Soviet collapse. And KFAR is named like that because there is a program called FAR, developed by Russian programmer Evgeniy Roshal, who, by the way, developed RAR archivation algorythm. So, this FAR program is pretty popular in post-soviet countries among IT-specialists because of it's powerful functionality and small size, so KFAR is, in a sense, nod to that program.
I don't, by the way, state, that this is purely Russian OS or anything like this. I just did give some context about oddities. KolibryOS is a product of multinational team and should be seen as an example of such.
that explains the kgb
Tele2 is a Swedish company, but yes. Giggled at 'Kosilka' :D
Multinationals with the same/similar origin. Still impressive nonetheless as few if any other modern OS could even think about fitting into a single floppy disk. Granted, the driver situation is kinda bad, but you can’t ask too much for a system compressed into 1.3MB disk image.
@@estellebright2579 well, yes. It is very impressive already
Actually, Tele2 is a Swedish mobile provider, russian Tele2 isn't owned by them, it only shares the brand name.
But I do I see latinized russian in application names, (Palitra - palette, Kosilka - lawnmower, etc.). Also, I see a Seawar game, which also used to be popular in post-soviet countries. Far file manager is of russian origin too. And the Lines game.
I was going to say "okay but can It run Doom tho?" But like, It literally comes with it
Ooh! You have sum nice art
@@scribleman4902 thank you!!
@@scribleman4902 gotta second this, amy you've got somthing good there
so yes it can
They knew. lol
The aesthetic looks like an operating system you'd see in a game
System shock 2 Aah OS
Microshaft Winblows 98
macrosoft binbows
if you want another OS with video game aesthetics, I recommend pacarana abel cirilo's OsakaOS. It's an OS based on Osaka from Azumanga Daioh that runs on ring 0 and is intentionally designed to mimic the feel of a video game operating system while being perfectly usable. abel uploads update videos explaining the OS's development progress and how it works, but he's taking a break right now.
Just being able to reposition the taskbar in this itty-bitty OS makes it already more versatile than Windows 11.
what about windows recall.
You mean that privacy invasive ai bullshit?
@@turtlefrog369 You mean the more spylike version of System Restore?
? no?
@@SuperM789 Duh, that’s what jokes are for. They’re just making fun of Microsoft removing features for no reason.
Floppy version includes a web browser. LiveCD version includes the entire web.
The flash drive version includes the entire PC.
The HDD version includes the entire solar system
This operating system inside a 1.44 MB floppy drive contains more stuff than a 10 GB+ Windows install
Wait, Windows ONLY TAKES 10GB?! WTF IS ON MY LAPTOP?! 😳
@@ILoveGayMenToMyCore Windoos
A bunch of bloatware/system files.
@@ILoveGayMenToMyCore That "+" is doing a LOT of work.
Amazed
Man these videos are the reason I love your channel. The oddball Windows stuff is great too but these overviews of these weird unheard of OSes are what I love. And the fact that it's not just another Linux distro is kind of insane to me. Weird assembly based OS that runs from a floppy? Top shelf.
OSFirstTimer is your place. And mine! They do this, but a lot more often. Look into them!
"Better late then never"
So when's the Compaq Portable part two MJD?
one day... one day
@@MichaelMJD Hilariously, a YT hiccup caused me to see this comment three times.
@@MichaelMJDbetter late than never
are you guys talking about the hp laptop Michael has on the channel sometimes lol
what is that pfp? 🤨
I really like the icon art Kolibri uses for its apps
VERY impressive. Reminds me of the legendary QNX Floppy in the 90s, which contained a full OS with a GUI and a (then) modern browser.
Yeah. I was just about to say the same thing.
This TH-cam page is 50 times bigger than a OS.
Linux users make it almost 2x the amount or even 1x (I use arch btw)
Do you wear your programmer socks and chasity cage? @ReaIYoBlue
Inefficient as hell. And interestingly no-one ever mentions how much carbon footprint bloated webapps have xD
Bloat is bad
@@ReaIYoBlue ok
KolibriOS
*Has More Stuff than 3 Windows installations
*Fits on a Floppy disk
*Looks nice
I'll tell you right now that i'd have used that in the early 2000s without question.
The upload schedule has been awesome lately! Thank you so much!
Colibrí means hummingbird in Spanish (the emphasis on the final 'e', so col-ee-BREE). That's why the logo is a hummingbird 😊
Oh that makes sense because it's fast
@@morgantrias3103 small...
humming birds are known more for being fast, there are plenty of birds that are as small but not many that flap their wings so fast. But yeah, both makes sense.
I think the Ethernet driver was working. But you didn’t configure the network. Maybe you had to setup DHCP or maybe try to setup a manual IP address…
You even had the window for network setup open 😅
I tried all of that when I was troubleshooting off camera, just didn't feel the need to include it because I couldn't get anything to work. The configure menu allows you to change DHCP settings. Even disabling it and entering the values manually didn't get the system to come online unfortunately.
@@MichaelMJD the documentation states you should edit in /sys/network/zeroconf.ini :)
Maybe there is a bug in the drivers! Try a bunch of different cards and see if there is 1 that actually works.. I remember Linux in the mid 90s and early 2000s network cards and modems was the biggest issue.. my 486 DX4 100 could run most Linux distros but 80% didn't support my 56k modems or my network cards which killed Linux for me back then I didn't know anything about compiling the kernel or drivers so if I had any hardware issues it was a instant format and move on to the next distribution eventually landing back on win95 because it just works best for the hardware I had. So maybe report the bug and check the site for any other information to get network cards working or maybe they have other drivers for download. Even check to see if there's any other people uploading software they have made for the os as they might have a 3rd party driver possibly.
Or see if you find someone who has the os fully working and ask them how and if it just worked for them find out what their hardware configuration is.. also the download might have got a tiny bit corrupted during the download or transfer to floppy and has killed a system file or corrupt driver package.. it could be heaps of things really 😆 but a part 2 would be great to see it online and what the issue was and how to fix it as this is is perfect for my kids at school it has everything and my 6th gen Intel core i5 laptop with 16gb DDR4 would be perfect for this is it would be fast and efficient and do everything it needs to do plus play games.
Remember WinModems? Ugh!
The first OS you can run inside of Doom
21:02 WoW, you've found that miracle game! I was searching for it kinda two decades. On our 386 it was named Goose (never found out why...). Now I can finally get my hands on this miracle again! Great Thanks!
What's Game? 😂
@@adriandangelo3029for me it was the game Tyrian. I played hundreds of hours on our 386. But i forgot the name of the game long ago and could not fond it since 10-15 years.
That Tetris icon is actually straight copyright infringement. It's the game icon that shows up on the Nintendo DS menu for the game Tetris DS.
that's awesome.
Additionally, the version of 2048 at 21:04 appears to be based off of an open source implementation of 2048 built for libretro (retroarch).
It's strange to see such a mishmash of open source stuff and uncreatively cobbled together crap. I wouldn't be surprised if none of these games were coded by the original kolibri os devs but instead we're just commandeered with or without attribution.
@@makeshiftsavant *were
'Our Tetris'
@@Qwertypigeon853good old communismus :D
@@Qwertypigeon853 communism at it's finest.
Talking of non-Linux OSes, I was about to suggest Icaros Desktop, which is compatible with Amiga software but, unlike MorphOS, runs on x86. However, something seems off with their website lately, as the download page doesn't work. Maybe there are older versions available somewhere.
Tried that, Icarus is far from usable OS because it’s too unstable.
It's been a long time since I last tried Icaros, possibly ten years. Anyway, "Installing Icaros Desktop But Everything Goes Wrong" would be a great video for this channel!
This reminds me of where QNX Disk OS was several decades ago. Running a full blown OS of a disk. The compression was just crazy when you know the floppy is just 1.44MB & the disk had a different total space to the disk & it was quick.
Oh, it's not compression. It's that the entire thing is written in assembly. So you were half-right when you wrote the word "crazy", you just didn't narrow down the actual insanity.
Should be shipped inside EEPROMs of all new motherboards. Would help a lot...
Yes but only if the OS works WITH the motherboard hardware and connects to the darn internet! lol!
this or one of these keychain Linux distros for recovery, tho idk if they can get THIS tiny
@@autumnblaze6267
Tiny Core Linux, 17 MB
SliTaz, 43 MB
@@pianokeyjoe i'm pretty sure that the manufacturer would ship with the drivers installed
@@autumnblaze6267 this system is this small because it's made entirely in assembly, the same linguage as the bios
It's not a MJD video if there isn't a problem with the Internet.
as a guy who experiments with tech myself, i can definitely confirm that the internet is an asshole to get going, lol
@@cubehead-existswhen I was going to college for Sysadmin the IT guy and I DDoSed the school's Internet trying to crash a computer. We made a script to open and play the 10 hour video of Gandalf bobbing his head. After about the 5 minute mark he started getting calls about the Internet being extremely slow.
We did not get the computer to crash sadly but we did get it to the point that it took the mouse almost a full minute to move.
@@GrumpyIan oh my god, they need better internet security
@@cubehead-exists Yup..
There was many years ago, a "95 on a floppy" which may have just been a skinned linux but if memory served it did have the usual compliment of menus.
Well the original W95 did not run from floppy but technically this does not either. W95 first release came on 13 floppy disks and had to be installed on a HD before it could run. This OS has to be installed on a ram disk before it can start.
@@chinesepopsongs00 Yes Im aware of the original 95, this was a version that ran from one floppy in a similar fashion to the video.
there was a bootable 3.1 on a floppy in case you misremembered the version of windows
Believe Kolibri is one of the few OS projects that runs completely in RAM (the installer and bootloader fits on a floppydrive but after uncompression all of the processes are done from RAM and not your HDD/FDD or SSD
You can run just about any Linux live environment from RAM. Just add "toram" or "copytoram" (for arch) as kernel parameters. I do it all the time when I need to test multiple machines but only have one usb drive.
Your home wifi router runs linux entirely in ram. It loads from a slow rom, then everything runs from ram
There are Linux distros like Puppy Linux that run entirely from RAM. Of course they require way more than 8 MB and don't fit on a floppy disk.
Commenting to add my support for a video installing another OS under DOSBox under KolibriOS (and generally pushing this OS to its limits)
I agree! I wish more core *wares were optimized for size, portability, and interoperability.
Virtual machine on a Windows 11 PC to emulate a Windows 7 machine which runs in Windows XP mode to then run Kolibri and then run dos box to then run DOS to run Doom.
Thanx for the video. I remember when I workd on Centigram voicemail systems back in the 1990s running QNX OS you could download an image to fit on a 1.44 floppy that was an OS on a disk.
Imagine the other way around like "to continue installing windows 11 please insert floppy disk 1481 of 2140"
Enderman installed Windows 10 with 3000 floppies (iirc, maybe a bit less)
@@YoshiiXDoorsoh my god I thought you were joking lol I need to check that video
@@YoshiiXDoorsHow long did it take?
Sounds like how I used internet at mom's workplace before USB. Compress and split to 1.4M a Screensaver, maybe 4 to 8 floppies.
Also tried to search altavists how to install Linux, and looking back at it I think I downloaded a set of floppies for a mainframe. And printed a 50 page instruction for it.
That didn't work on my computer, I think my first experience with Linux was Knoppix from a magazine. Then Mandriva from a magazine, and switched full-time when Ubuntu was released and they would send you a free CD in the mail
19:11 The KGB is everywhere! 😮
Stephan Picq's Adlib soundtrack intensifies!
wait this is fire
it has all the charm of an older OS with the support of the modern stuff
I remember playing with this years ago and being utterly amazed that these folks wrote an entire operating system in assembly language! That's why it runs so fast and is so small. Very talented team of programmers.
I've been obsessed with this OS all week, I thought it was an MJD video that turned me on to it in the first place but I guess that was just Haiku. I'm messing about with having it installed on an old laptop hoping to do some programming in it, aparently there's a stripped down Pascal compiler but it's been tough finding information about what it can do with OS hooks and such since a lot of it is either undocumented or documented very well so long as you are fluent in Russian.
19:11 Yes my comrade we are everywhere
windows 11:
Intel Core i3-8100: 1 GHz or faster, with at least 2 cores, 64-bit architecture or SoC
RAM: 4 GB or more
linux:
Electricity(optional)
First OS in a while where I had to say "That's pretty cool!" If I had the need for it, I'd totally give it a try. Thanks for covering it!
Props to Mike for using floppy diskettes as a wall cover.
Amazing how this is possible. People can do some really wild stuff.
When I was testing MenuetOS back in the 2000s I needed to manually config the IP, net mask, gateway in the window that was shown with the zeros..because for some reason the DHCP functionality was not working, but after manually put the config I was able to connect to Internet from the floppy booted OS.
That is pretty impressive. I got quite alot of use out of early ramdisk based OS's. WAAAY back in the day I used QNX, which also fit on a floppy disc, but was pretty much just a modem dialler, TCP/IP stack and web browser and GUI. It did work very well and reliably. got me out of a pickle more than once.
I also used SLAX for a good few years as my main OS, as I was traveling, couch surfing, and staying between a few places. was really nice to have the same OS anywhere I went on a USB stick, configured just how I wanted it, on any random computer. I also didnt have to worry that the machine I was on had any viruses or malware, and I didnt leave a trail of my Data or logins or anything. running entirely from RAM, SLAX felt so fast to use, even the most geriatric boat anchor was smooth to use. sure, it took ages to boot, but that was a fair price to turn any PC into your PC, and with enough RAM, faster than anything ive used up to this day. sure did freak out a few people, seeing their machine become something completely different. some took a level of offence, some wanted a copy, just cos it went so fast. RAM-disk based OS's are next level. unfortunately it stopped getting updated, and once the browser got depreciated it kinda killed the whole thing. but by then I could afford a decent laptop and didnt need to borrow machines. It absolutely had its downfalls, and was a bit of a pig to get set up, but once running was one of the best OS's ive ever used.
PS; Tyrian is one of my absolute favourites. give it a play, its rather good (understated)
The GUI is well done with clear colorful controls and icons.
I'm from Brazil, your channel is very good and easy to understand without subtitles, good job
how did they made this?☠️
How did they get Doom, Duke Nukem 3D (6:36) and Quake to fit on a single 3.5 disk?
They didn't, that part of the video is of the CD version.
0:00 Who knew my 33th birthday would be so iconic :XD
I very much appreciated the windows 1.01 ad reversi reference. Lol
Few weeks ago, while plaing with my Pentium1@100, 64MB RAM, Ati3D Rage PCI, I tried the floppy version of this OS. It work very well, except the network card that was not detected (a standard NE2000 ISA card) Also, the sound was also not audible, I have there a ISA Creative SB16. Strangely, the HDD was not visible, probably due to the BIOS limitations.
12:20 its using the keyboard repeat key to save on code. You can see it stutter when you start holding the key
About that one pong 3 game:
I think the reason why the inputs were slightly delayed is because they behave like they do on a word document or something similar. One press gets accepted instantly, but when you try to hold a key down, it takes a second to register your input.
I remember using MenuetOS from waaay back, cool to see the project is still alive in a way.
3:05 why is videomode in three dimensions?
X Res x Y Res x color depth (32bpp = 32-bit color = RGBA)
Not 3 dimensional, that’s the color depth. 32-bit color or RBGA
I remember running this back in the day on a Packard Bell Legend 1540 Supreme. It think it's almost the oldest video on my channel from back in 2012? Such a neat little OS.
Fun stuff, had to go try on VMWare, ridiculous how fast it boots. Web was... finicky at best. What gave me some pause is that Quake was only getting 400fps while on WinUAE i can get ~600 even though it's emulating a 68k. Guess VMWare's VESA emulation is meant to be stable not fast. Anyway, fun to see some successors to the famous QNX Demo Disk, even if a tad unstable and unpolished...
how did you install it?
@@w.dgaming1 LiveCD, no install. But shouldn't be too hard...
Came from the MJD's Bluesky page.
Way better than twitter, I hope he keeps using it.
For the networking: press the Configure button in the network config thing with the IPs and stuff
MenuetOS was great to play with and learn (ASM) many years ago. Still is, but with the plethora of OSes available these days, you can drown in variety. Kolibri sounds equally as interesting for enthusiast OS exploring.
finally, the video we were promised for years.
kolibri is a very normal name for "small thing" but i always think of the bots from signalis.
In Spanish colibrí is hummingbird (hence the logo)
It means hummingbird
Cant believe it took me this long to find a Signalis comment
> Never heard of Tyrian before...
Brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. It's amazing. One of the best top down shooters ever.
OMG I NEVER THOUGHT YOU WILL DO THIS
I've used that in the past as a way to move around/copy data and to fix issues. Been ages, I might grab the USB image and toss it on my ventoy drive if it plays nice with that setup. I have a few Linux live discs, including a persistent one, for those tasks these days, but with how resource friendly this is, just have a solid file manager and text editor is nice.
I’m guessing the network issue is that it doesn’t have proper support for dhcp, which means you would have to manually set the local ips
He didn't even mention the craziest part: *this entire OS is written in nothing but assembly!* That's how they can get it small enough to fit on a floppy disc. Madlads doesn't even begin to describe a person willing to write an entire operating system using assembly.
„Just to verify that it’s going to work on this computer“ that’s not how the channel works Micheal 😂
Used a keychain-OS for a while myself, it was larger than this distribution but similar.
Had network driver for basically every PC I walked up to in the day.
This is so tiny it could be installed in the BIOS flash, it is that small - and obviously comes with a lot of functionality.
I used mine for browsing the web and email and troubleshooting. Especially the TFTP server came in handy when I had something new to set up.
Flat Assembly for the win!! ❤ in the (rare) instances when I have to go low-lever, FASM is my go to!
It’s a good day when Micheal MJD uploads
If you have SB16-compatible sound card, remove sound.sys and rename sb16.sys from the folder 'drivers' to sound.sys -> may have solved your problem :)
Hey, I remember this! I played around with it as a kid. It couldn’t detect my mouse and overall it was a very surreal experience. But it had some pretty nifty games.
Was it a USB mouse? They support usb mice now but I think it's comparatively recent.
I really like the looks of the OS.
no way... the video we always kept waiting for
You should try Tyrian. It's one of the best side scrollers from the 90s. It got open sourced too.
At 20:59
Tyrian....
That was a major game! Came out as shareware in the early 1990s. It's a vertically scrolling flying shooter. Sometime later, the original author released it and some expansions as freeware called Tyrian2000. You should try playing it, it's awesome!!
Good video as always, and a pretty interesting operating system.. I might try this out later 👀
Wow. That is the best thing to use an old computer with 2 months old and 2 weeks and 2 days old Operating system that supports over 3 decade old Computers especially this one that has been 27 years old and he showed us that fits on a single 1.44MB 3.5' floppy disk.
I have a 1989 Mac on os 7.5.3 and even that was 4mb 30 years ago and this is looks more fully featured. Pretty sweet
I never knew that a modern operating system could fit on a floppy disk. How much hard disk space does it use?
After 2021 years later... he finally did a video on...KolibriOS.
This OS is insane for it's size.
Edit:What?
2021 years later
@@fuseegelee Even 3 year old Jesus couldn't get the network cards to work with KolibriOS
Man, time flies
what?
what what?
@@heno02tru
0:01 man I remember this vid your were installing vista on the 98 pc and to add the new graphics card I think to load aero theme and you found it on one of your DVD drives and the GPU was a blue color
That's funny... Would Pong 3 work based on text input?
Like, you press left, it moves left one bit, stops, then the repeat functions come in play and you start moving more...
Hmmm....
Cool vid bro 😎
"Hello everybody and welcome back to another video" will never get old
God. I remember minuete OS. I remember trying it way... WAY back in the early 2000's. I thought it was insane.
so is this how skynet infects the network with its self-replicating worm os variant, just the size of a floppy disk?
26:17 tnx MJD for delivering us OS-tans once again.. kawaii
did you solve the internet connection issues?
So, WHAT program did you use to write the IMG file to the Floppy. I am having a heck of a time getting WinImage to work...
EDIT: The NEW version of WinImage doesn't play well with Win 11. I DL version 8.5 and it worked perfect. so????
good to hear menuetos still has life.
Can't hit the "configure" button @ 4:57 ?
can we use vscode here? or android studio or a OS installer
Hey Michael I got a question what is that wallpaper on the 98 machine?
Extremely cool!
KolibriOS on a floppy disk sounds like a merch SIGNALIS would make
Would definitely like you do install 95 in the DOS box!
The funny part is I watched that exact video where he said he would do it a few weeks ago and here we are lol.
3:25 Damn, I love that wallpaper.
Installing it on my Ventoy USB Stick, and i will never be bored on university library!
This is so cool, I'm gonna try this out on my own 98 and XP machines.
Now here is a fun question, we can boot live from Floppy and CD, what about a 100mb Zip drive or other media?
I can’t make it boot on my computers… cuz it just crashed after it finished loading… so… I’ll try again this month 😮
Keep going 😊
Tried Kolibri a couple of times on various computers (Asus, Dell, Lenovo) and I always got it working...without internet. On none of my test-pc's (I did 3 makes and 6 models) it did not seem to recognize any of the network interface cards. I wasn't expecting it to see the wifi cards, but had my hope somewhat set on the regular NIC and utp. Alas, never got it going. So, apart from an interesting look at a "hobby project", I do not consider Kolibri a workable solution. Maybe in a post-apocalyptic world, where you would have a lone computer as your only resource and then you could fit this OS on it...yeah, maybe? Let's never find out....
I've not tried setting up networking before, but there was a big "Configure" button, so couldn't you just manually assign an IP address?