pram posted:

Silver Alicorn posted:

why the long face

pram posted:

Meat Beat Agent posted:

i've never before been able to look at that pic long enough to notice that part of his mustache is creeping into his mouth

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

I'm the skin imperfections

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Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, has spent 10 years building an operating system to talk to God.

In the beginning there is darkness. The screen erupts in blue, then a cascade of thick, white hexadecimal numbers and cracked language, "UnusedStk" and "AllocMem." Black screen cedes to blue to white and a pair of scales appear, crossed by a sword, both images drawn in the jagged, bitmapped graphics of Windows 1.0-era clip-art—light grey and yellow on a background of light cyan. Blue text proclaims, "God on tap!"

This is TempleOS V2.17, the welcome screen explains, a "Public Domain Operating System" produced by Trivial Solutions of Las Vegas, Nevada. It greets the user with a riot of 16-color, scrolling, blinking text; depending on your frame of reference, it might recall ​DESQview, the ​Commodore 64, or a host of early DOS-based graphical user interfaces. In style if not in specifics, it evokes a particular era, a time when the then-new concept of "personal computing" necessarily meant programming and tinkering and breaking things.

Gif by the authorTerry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, has spent 10 years building an operating system to talk to God.

In the beginning there is darkness. The screen erupts in blue, then a cascade of thick, white hexadecimal numbers and cracked language, "UnusedStk" and "AllocMem." Black screen cedes to blue to white and a pair of scales appear, crossed by a sword, both images drawn in the jagged, bitmapped graphics of Windows 1.0-era clip-art—light grey and yellow on a background of light cyan. Blue text proclaims, "God on tap!"

This is TempleOS V2.17, the welcome screen explains, a "Public Domain Operating System" produced by Trivial Solutions of Las Vegas, Nevada. It greets the user with a riot of 16-color, scrolling, blinking text; depending on your frame of reference, it might recall ​DESQview, the ​Commodore 64, or a host of early DOS-based graphical user interfaces. In style if not in specifics, it evokes a particular era, a time when the then-new concept of "personal computing" necessarily meant programming and tinkering and breaking things.

Then there are less mundane features. Pressing F7 anywhere in TempleOS summons a pseudo-random "tongues word." Five F7s at the command prompt might produce downmarket Dada like "flashedt ARE evil madly peacemaker." Shift-F7 inserts a Bible passage. (Or, less revelatory, the copyright notice from Project Gutenberg's e-text Bible.) Jukebox offers a collection of PC-speaker tunes with Biblically inspired lyrics, like this gloss on Mark 4:37: Lord, there's a storm upon the sea / Lord, there's a storm upon the sea / Relax, fellas / (Sea became glass).

TempleOS is more than an exercise in retro computing, or a hobbyist's space for programming close to the bare metal. It's the brainchild—perhaps the life's work—of 44-year-old Terry Davis, the founder and sole employee of Trivial Solutions. For more than a decade Davis has worked on it; today, TempleOS is 121,176 lines of code, which puts it on par with Photoshop 1.0. (By comparison, Windows 7, a full-fledged modern operating system designed to be everything to everyone, filled with decades of cruft, is ​about 40 million lines.)

He's done this work because God told him to

flakeloaf posted:

who

SpaceClown posted:

Remember when terry posted to SA and got permabanned lol

SpaceClown posted:

Remember when terry posted to SA and got permabanned lol

COACHS SPORT BAR posted:

no, but i want to

OldAlias posted:

he documents a lot, I wonder if image boards etc exacerbated his racism & schizophrenia

Bloody posted:

same but terri schiavo

CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

TOOT BOOT posted:

Someone made a Gameboy emulator for TempleOS believe it or not

axolotl farmer posted:

holy crap!

https://github.com/tramplersheikhs/cherub

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Mega Man for TempleOS

PLEASE NOTE: Sounds have been removed, the use of digitized sound is not permissible in TempleOS.