And no, I don't mean those (imo) crappy projects that call themselves operating systems that have 3 applications that do nothing and half the time just use windows pngs for everything

I mean an actual (emulated) computer, with RAM, ROM, RWM (read write memory, more obscure then those 2), I've already got text rendering from a graphics ROM, temporary variables in RWMspace, and image rendering!




My rendering engine in turbowarp, only costumes for case recognition and SQUARE! (preview)

yes, you can make basically anything in scratch as long as it is possible under 10 mb project.json limit and 5 mb asset limits.
someone managed to emulate linux in scratch, but i won't say who they are or the link to the project as that would count as advertising.

yeah but is it feasible, not a barebones console, a user friendly computer, gui, applications, all that fun stuff

quadruple_door wrote:

yeah but is it feasible, not a barebones console, a user friendly computer, gui, applications, all that fun stuff

i guess so?
if you can emulate linux, you can emulate an X display
which means you can run linux gui apps, and a desktop environment such as xfce, in scratch

but if you mean from bare beginnings (no emulation) this is already possible and feasible considering the amount of OSes that have plagued scratch

heydude869 wrote:

im actually making a phone https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1067997148 do you think you can give me some tips to add some of this coding into my phone?

Not trying to be mean, but your prototypes seem like the same kinda fake “OS” I mentioned:

I wrote:

And no, I don't mean those (imo) crappy projects that call themselves operating systems that have 3 applications that do nothing and half the time just use windows pngs for everything

You need to implement more than ROM, RAM and RWM if you want to emulate every component of a computer. You completely forgot about RMM (read-mostly memory) and PROM.

quadruple_door wrote:

heydude869 wrote:

im actually making a phone https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1067997148 do you think you can give me some tips to add some of this coding into my phone?

Not trying to be mean, but your prototypes seem like the same kinda fake “OS” I mentioned:

I wrote:

And no, I don't mean those (imo) crappy projects that call themselves operating systems that have 3 applications that do nothing and half the time just use windows pngs for everything

Except, gPhone wasn't really clear on that so there's always the minuscule possibility?

DifferentDance8 wrote:

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You don't need RMM and PROM for this, its not a physical chip remember, ROM is also PROM and RAM is RMM, because they are functionally the same, especially in a constant simulated (semi) instant environment. Also this is in turbowarp so infinite list space (yipee!)

Update!
Images now work (yipee!), only 512 colours though because scratch

Preview:

Please share this! I need to see it

BluePixelLOLLL wrote:

quadruple_door wrote:

Update!
Images now work (yipee!), only 512 colours though because scratch

Preview:

You call that a computer?

Well, a computer needs software to work. If the software is designed to only display an image, that’s what it will do.


Anyway, I think is both feasible and cool!

The one thing which might be problematic is audio, since scratch can’t generate tones or play audio based on actual audio data, only prerecorded sounds.

8to16 wrote:

someone managed to emulate linux in scratch, but i won't say who they are or the link to the project as that would count as advertising.

No? I think it's good to bring up Linux on Scratch since it's a pretty good reference for the OP. Here it is: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/892602496 (and on TurboWarp) This uses RISC-V

ajskateboarder wrote:

8to16 wrote:

someone managed to emulate linux in scratch, but i won't say who they are or the link to the project as that would count as advertising.

No? I think it's good to bring up Linux on Scratch since it's a pretty good reference for the OP. Here it is: no) This uses RISC-V

Although a limitation is that this really only supports a cli terminal out of the box, implementing X would take significantly longer. + a few posts ago was edited to remove an ad so

I'll move this over to the Spanish forum for you, that's a better fit for this kind of topic.

BluePixelLOLLL wrote:

I'll move this over to the Spanish forum for you, that's a better fit for this kind of topic.

No it isn't? If anything this should be moved to the Advanced Topics.

To make a computer you must make it compute

quadruple_door wrote:

And no, I don't mean those (imo) crappy projects that call themselves operating systems that have 3 applications that do nothing and half the time just use windows pngs for everything

I mean an actual (emulated) computer, with RAM, ROM, RWM (read write memory, more obscure then those 2), I've already got text rendering from a graphics ROM, temporary variables in RWMspace, and workin' on 4096 colour image rendering!
(by the way not asking as a question, but if I should continue bothering with it)



My rendering engine in turbowarp, only costumes for case recognition and SQUARE! (preview)

Yes. @RokCoder made a full emulator of the BBC B microcomputer, which was an 8 bit home computer from the UK back in the 1980's, which can run disk images and ROMs made for that machine. Including BBC Basic (programming language)

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/531881458/

BluePixelLOLLL wrote:

To make a computer you must make it compute

Oh, really? I didn't know that! I thought you must eat a giant potato /s

blubby4 wrote:

Please share this! I need to see it

Fine… https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1071659045/ here you go, going to continue updating on turbowarp but anyways there's your cryptic 2fps thingymabob