game OS

#1 Someone was actually doing this, but they went bankrupt. Do a web search for "Indrema" and you should come up with something.

#2 do you think of a pc based operationsystem? i think yes. this means you've got a pc with this game OS and perhaps windows. so you can work normaly with windows and you can play under the new system.
Sounds interessting. but i have no time to do this. (i belive my programming-skills aren't good enought :)

#3 Yes, I was meaning a separate system that runs on your computer (Linux based) that you can access from either lilo or a shortcut in windows that will be a gameOS exclusively for game play that basicly turns your computer into a console with mouse and keyboard interface.
It would have to have video and sound support, Open GL support, definitely internet support, maybe even come with some online gaming software like kali
it would be a HUGE coding thing but I'm just sort of brainstorming ideas ...
I don't know,
just a though I had.
im a graphics artist but some of my friends code really well... think we should look into it?

#4 The Idee is great. but there has to be a big Advantage
against linux and windows. you see at the example of linux how hard it is, to run against windows.
I think, the performance can be a bit closer to the optimum (=0) but it's only a little bit. that isn't enough to writte a hole new system. there has to be more advantages.

just me 2 sents.

#5 You'd have to reboot to switch between this OS and windows, though. That's not something I'd want to do, and I'll wager most other game players wouldn't want to do it either.

Besides, stripping down the OS will free some system resources, but you're still missing the major selling point of a console environment: identical hardware. Your game OS would need drivers for every gamepad, video card and sound configuration out there. At that point, it's gotten as big as linux or windows again.

#6 there is a windows shell replacement (called, oddly enough, gameOS, i do believe) that, upon boot up, it doesnt load explorer.exe or any other appz. It just has a dialog to either play a game, or boot normally into windows. it keeps like 99.99% of your resources free... ill try to dig up a link... i used it last year under windows me, and it helped a bit.
ryan


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#7 The Linux/Game projects are mostly geared around allowing Windows games to run on Linux, via WINE and DirectX compatible libraries...None of the serious projects are really trying to create a 'gameOS' as defined previously.

This sort of idea pops up all the time on various game development lists/boards I frequent...And I always wonder 'Why'? There's so much work involved in creating a custom OS even if its derived from an existing one (the OS itself, game-related libraries, keeping driver support current (dont count on the hardware vendors to make drivers for your tiny niche OS), etc, etc!). Windows is already a great gaming OS...Mac OS X is a pretty good gaming OS (though it has little developer support due to small market), Linux is getting there, but again seems to have little to no real paying market for the vast majority of developers to bother caring...

I, for one, like the fact that I can use a single OS to run applications and games. I dont want to reboot each time I run a game...DirectX (and/or OpenGL) are fine APIs for game programming under Windows (or MacOS, or Linux on the OpenGL side). There's no real need for a gameOS.

#8 Convert linux to play windows games the you will be rich!

#9 Hmm i had this idea once.. even using linux too But it was constantly shot down by everyone i asked... to me its a great idea and would enhance game's at least 2 fold. most people dont realize how much any version of windows really slows down your comp.

oh yeah heres another one called SmartOSX

http://www.voodoofiles.com/3536

#10 yeah, writing one of those is easy, replace the pointer in system.ini (or one of those 'dont touch me' files) to be a different file launcher (like one you write yourself) But porting linux to be able to do what you want is much more complicated (Though would completely rule, i agree :)
ryan