If you haven't already seen a YouTuber with 500,000+ subscribers (Michael MJD) just uploaded a video of using Visopsys. There will definitely be some new interest in the project today!
https://youtu.be/5MZljgXW2WA?si=MukegzJx4pvtSEPE
Visopsys mentioned!
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Like me. A madlad that's trying (and failing) to install VisOpSys in an 86Box instance. Any recommendations for a known working config would be appreciated...
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I've never run 86Box, but the Visopsys 0.92 ISO boots quite well in VirtualBox.
Unfortunately, I've had a much rougher time on physical hardware. I think my first attempts to boot Visopys on physical hardware were all the way back around 2006, and I *still* don't have a permanent hard disk install of it anywhere because it has refused to boot or else refused to handle the hard disks of *many* computers I have tried it on over the years. I was able to get the floppy version to boot on some stuff though. As of 0.91 the requirements for a floppy boot seemed to be a Pentium III or newer with 32MB RAM and VESA 2.0 video.
How Visopsys has succeeded in having an impressive 27 years of maintenance without ever gaining the ability to handle the majority of industry-standard IDE and SATA hard disks and optical drives is beyond me, but apparently it works where andymc wants it to work and the rest of us are too lazy to contribute patches for our machines.
Unfortunately, I've had a much rougher time on physical hardware. I think my first attempts to boot Visopys on physical hardware were all the way back around 2006, and I *still* don't have a permanent hard disk install of it anywhere because it has refused to boot or else refused to handle the hard disks of *many* computers I have tried it on over the years. I was able to get the floppy version to boot on some stuff though. As of 0.91 the requirements for a floppy boot seemed to be a Pentium III or newer with 32MB RAM and VESA 2.0 video.
How Visopsys has succeeded in having an impressive 27 years of maintenance without ever gaining the ability to handle the majority of industry-standard IDE and SATA hard disks and optical drives is beyond me, but apparently it works where andymc wants it to work and the rest of us are too lazy to contribute patches for our machines.
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That's cool, thanks for letting me know. I'll give it a watch. Even if I'll be embarrassed because something didn't work 
I just don't have a large collection of hardware to test on. I did have a stack of old laptops, once upon a time, but the hardware (especially IDE) was so random. Writing a single driver that made them all happy was very daunting. I did what I could. I *think* the SATA driver is fairly decent? Anyway, the laptops are long gone. I mostly only run it in VMware nowadays, but not really focused on hardware drivers at the moment. One of these days.Uityyy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 24, 2025 3:32 am How Visopsys has succeeded in having an impressive 27 years of maintenance without ever gaining the ability to handle the majority of industry-standard IDE and SATA hard disks and optical drives is beyond me, but apparently it works where andymc wants it to work and the rest of us are too lazy to contribute patches for our machines.