could ZeldaOS fit on a floppy?

[informer2016]

Even today the floppies are still being used, for example - as virtual floppies inside the coreboot open source BIOS. Just imagine: your wonderful OS could be a part of someone's BIOS build! (for coreboot supported motherboard, maybe you have or could get one - see https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards )

@chillancezen , If you already have a coreboot-supported motherboard, or a real chance to get one, - wouldn't it be cool to be able to launch your own OS straight from the BIOS chip? ;) With one simple command its possible to add any floppy to coreboot BIOS build - and then you see it as a boot entry! Multiple floppies could be added this way (as long as you have enough space left inside the BIOS flash chip, luckily LZMA compression could be used for the stored floppies to reduce their occupied size)

[chillancezen]

thanks for filing the issue.
ZeldaOS.x86_64 is not a portal OS or kernel, it's just a bare metal virtual machine monitor. I am afraid it's not what you are seeking.

[informer2016]

@chillancezen Thank you too, for a kind reply. ZeldaOS looks really great to be honest, judging by the screenshots. I wish you good luck in your project!

[chillancezen]

@chillancezen Thank you too, for a kind reply. ZeldaOS looks really great to be honest, judging by the screenshots. I wish you good luck in your project!

Thanks,
I take a loot at the final image size: 123K, that's definitely fitting a floppy:

drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Nov 21 05:16 bootloader
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  512 Nov 21 05:17 bootloader64.bin
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2.0K Nov 21 05:17 bootloader64.elf
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4.0K Nov 21 05:17 device
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Nov 21 05:17 guest
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4.0K Nov 21 05:17 init
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   27 Nov 21 05:17 kernel64.inc
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4.0K Nov 21 05:17 lib64
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  806 Nov 21 05:16 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4.0K Nov 21 05:17 memory
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Nov 21 05:16 mk
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2.7K Nov 21 05:16 README.md
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4.0K Nov 21 05:17 vm_monitor
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4.0K Nov 21 05:17 x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 122K Nov 21 05:17 Zelda64.bin
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1.4K Nov 21 05:16 zelda64_config.h
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1.3M Nov 21 05:17 Zelda64.elf
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 123K Nov 21 05:17 Zelda64.img <======= The bootable Image.
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  67K Nov 21 05:17 Zelda64.map

The image contains a custom bootloader, the host kernel and the guest image(which is a tetris game)
alas, the host kernel itself is very limited in its functions, it's only able to drive several peripherals like keyboard/serial port/and video buffers. you can do nothing but play the game which is running inside a vm.

so sorry that I cannot help.

[informer2016]

@chillancezen Well, running a Tetris game from a BIOS is already something wonderful that could be shown off to your friends 😉