A new bug fix release of the Virtual OS Museum is available

 

I have released an updated version of the Virtual OS Museum with various bug fixes. The new release doesn't include any new OS installations, but it does fix most of the major issues people were reporting. It turns out that VirtualBox is less than ideal for this kind of thing, and other people were having major issues related to configuration file handling and mouse input that didn't show up on my machines for whatever reason. The new release uses QEMU instead of VirtualBox by default on Linux and Windows on both x86 and ARM, which should hopefully be more reliable. I've also fixed the issues inside the VM with things like missing files on the lite edition that people were reporting, although I still haven't fully tested all installations and testing is still ongoing. If you've already downloaded the previous version, you should download the external update zip file from the site, extract it over the folder from the previous version, boot the VM, and if you don't have automatic updates enabled, you should check for updates from the File menu of the launcher.

In addition to testing the installations that are already there, I'll start installing new VMs right away as well. These will become available in the launcher as I finish installing them, and I will also be posting at least a few screenshots of each new VM on social media. I'll also be starting on my first major emulator development project within the next few days, so stay tuned for updates on that as well; it is almost certainly going to be a series of a few videos and blog posts.

And if anyone had seen my video from a few years back or the few posts I've made about it, I still haven't forgotten about my own OS. UX/RT is likely just one commit away from running actual user programs. After that, it should only be a few more commits until I have it running a shell. As soon as I have a version that runs a shell that you can actually interact with, I will be adding it to the OS museum of course in addition to uploading images to the UX/RT GitLab project.

Before I end this video, I just want to thank everyone who's commented, joined my Discord, and supported me on Patreon and Ko-fi. Before I released this, I wasn't sure how much interest I'd actually get. I've got a pretty significant tendency to withdraw and stay quiet, and I've known little more than isolation and invisibility for most of my life. I wasn't sure if there was anything I could do to change this, but I'm very thankful to have been proven wrong. I certainly have no shortage of OS- and emulation-related projects to work on and content to make about them, and hopefully a decent number of people continue to be interested in my work.