just a thought!

[qaron]

hey guys hello from me to this beautiful community!! i had a thought last night when i was wondering why we have super pcs in general and we play emulator games 2 generation before... the idea guys is a new operating os similar with bios or a simple graphical enviroment , bootable with preloaded all the drivers of our system and in the repos ONLY the emulators. no window, no linux no mac!!!

[ulaoulao]

Its been talked about before. Your truly best bet to do this would be to use the BSD UNIX kernel but the main trouble is that most emulators are so abstract from another it's not worth it. The other main issue is that you get an Emulator OS and you loose the simplest of things. If you think really hard you will realize you're taking a normal OS for granted. By the time you get everything most users would want you have effectively created a new OS (not just an emulator OS). By the time you get to that point hardware is out of date and you need to start over. You can't just create an OS of any kind over night, it takes years.

Things like this do exist but normally its a hack of an OS and 9 times out of ten its a linux based OS (i.e like what they did for the ps3 ). There are a few multi emulators out there. Some capable of giving you one environment for 10 or so emulators. Like http://emulation-general.wikia.com/wiki/BizHawk or MESS.

[qaron]

yeah but imagine the possibility to boot the Emulator OS!! then choose your emulator to play and if you have internet connection you can update the setting, drivers import new drivers etc! or through the programming the Os programs the cpu clock automaticly for best compatibility of the emulator in modern systems... im dreaming a SteamOS that adapts o anyone pc!!! that has the repos to download any rom to play, and finaly that is so light like the bios of any console handheld or not! check the bios of ps3 for example, it boots quickly and through the bios boots in the game!! NO services more than the needed!!!! like the windows that drains you the raw cpu power or the ram! imagine one mother system that can update its core (in the hdd but reads from the ram)and if you choose then your emulator it forgets the mothersystems and pass to the end software-emulator (basicly os inside os) like the ps3!! loads the bios>play your game and you can close the game anytime easyly and return to the bios again to choose ather app!! (Mother OS > Bios Emulator[ps3, ps2, psx, etc]>rom[any game])

[ulaoulao]

Right its a fairy tail.

you are missing much of what is required to emulate. By the time you get all of that back in there you are back to an OS again.

ever here of openEMU


consider 90% of all emulators need Dirrect X (or other sdk) , in order to sue DX you need a windows machine. So who is going to write all new emulators? %100 of all emulators use a run time of some kind, these run-times are m$ products or linux based. Again if you make your own OS, it is not going to run any emulators, how can it? Since m$ is not open source you can start from there, so your only option is to start with linux. Though when you really think about it what is the difference in using a special emu OS based on linux vs Linux its self? More over, linux's kernel can be re-compiled. So the best idea here is to do all of this on linux and then rebuild the kernal.

im dreaming a SteamOS that adapts o anyone pc!!!

And this is all you can do, so keep dreaming while the rest of us play game

[peterjones0021]

you are missing much of what is required to emulate.