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Work Master OS

Murplugg opened this issue · comments

commented

Found this oddball from the mid 2000s:
Seems to have been a fairly active and documented project, albeit in Russian. It's still on Archive.org, a translated link is provided below.
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYzcNVzZHz0
Project page with some working downloads:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20081226144317%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fworkmaster.ru%2Findex.php%3Fp%3D43

Should this go in the MORE.md ?

commented

Maybe in the list itself under Homebrew > Demos? Seems pretty awesome to me.
(Unless there's source, I'm opposed to putting it in the other subcategories)

commented

Good point. Thought the source was there when I posted, but it's not. Seems this was a commercial product at some point before v3.20 became freeware in 2005. The dev history seems quite extensive: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20081226145840%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fworkmaster.ru%2Findex.php%3Fp%3D8

Homebrew > Demo list fits better, I agree.

commented

Btw, for completeness' sake, there are more of these micro OS-es that runs on GBC / GBA, with sources. Specifically:

Edit: nvm these entries, they're all GBA. :')

commented

Anything GBA is out of the scope of this list but could be proposed at awesome-gbadev.

As for µCUnix, I haven't tested it (unlike Work Master), so I'm neutral.

commented

I think this fits the main list, being an experimental still functional project.

  1. We do already have a similar project already on the list, under "Related Projects". I still think they should go there and not on the Homebrews list since they are usually larger projects.

I've added Workmaster OS just below the existing entry.

  1. The website is completely gone now, so we should mirror everything we can savage from the archive.org copy on gb-archive and maybe expose in a more accessible way the documentation and the downloads.

  2. I've checked µCUnix and it's not related at all to GB/GBC, but to GBA.

In this Issue I've listed the other resources you mentioned.

commented

Ah my bad. I'll go over there instead. Late edit on my previous post btw, just ignore it.

commented

No worries, thanks for the contributions

commented

Found this oddball from the mid 2000s: Seems to have been a fairly active and documented project, albeit in Russian. It's still on Archive.org, a translated link is provided below. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYzcNVzZHz0 Project page with some working downloads: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20081226144317%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fworkmaster.ru%2Findex.php%3Fp%3D43

Should this go in the MORE.md ?

I really wanted to try this, but the download page for workmaster leads to an archived version of this URL: http://www.workmaster.ru/files/GBA.zip

However, there don't seem to be any working captures of it. Does anyone have a copy?