Winter is coming and Collapse OS aims to soften the blow. It is a Forth (why Forth?) operating system and a collection of tools and documentation with a single purpose: preserve the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse. It is designed to:
- Run on minimal and improvised machines.
- Interface through improvised means (serial, keyboard, display).
- Edit text and binary contents.
- Compile assembler source for a wide range of MCUs and CPUs.
- Read and write from a wide range of storage devices.
- Assemble itself and deploy to another machine.
Additionally, the goal of this project is to be as self-contained as possible. With a copy of this project, a capable and creative person should be able to manage to build and install Collapse OS without external resources (i.e. internet) on a machine of her design, built from scavenged parts with low-tech tools.
Its a large topic, i would say browse a few Ben Eater youtubes https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2565dvjafglHU Every chip has its own assembly language. So really if you can find the document you can use it in whatever manor you like within its capability. My big hobby was building a flight sim. I was in training to be a simtech but i couldnt live off the pay. My stupid ass tried to move up the ladder now ive been unemployed for a month coz of mandates..
ok thx it looks like he has a website to follow along with that links to the videos as well, for example this came up when searching for "Ben Eater": https://eater.net/6502
Thats if it goes into utter DEVESTATION. hopefully we can hang onto windows linux MacOs and even that OS. Because of planned obsolescance we may have issues. Well kept machines could run up to about 7 to 10 years. But when capacitors etc need to be replaced we best hope we have stock.