rittervondodling / gameoflife

conways game of life in 16bits

cgol

creating a baremetal program for conways game of life

goal

• create a program that runs cgol in 1600x1200 cells, written in x86 assembly
• 32bit protected mode
• multicore
• multithread
• threadpool
• cells are not calculated individually, but 8 at a time

status

• not working
• comments are mostly in german, change incoming

if you want to run it

1. compile main.s:
   nasm -f bin -g -O0 -o STARTUP.BIN main.s
2. compile boot.s
   nasm -f bin -g -O0 -o BOOT.BIN protected.s
3. put BOOT.BIN & STARTUP.BIN on the bootmedium
   BOOT.BIN from 0 to 512 and STARTUP.BIN from 512 onwards
   you can use the bincopy.py program to do that for you, take a look into skript.sh how to use it
   or use your own bootmedium with a custom bootloader
4. run a vm with your bootmedium in your favorite x86 capable virtualizer
   e.g qemu with: qemu-system-i386 -vga std -m 1024k -drive if=floppy,index=0,format=raw,file=floppy.img

help

in help/ are files with general information for problem solving

old

in old/ are older working versions for
ax 0x0013 int0x10 320x240
0x0012 int0x10 640x480
boot.s bootloader for 16 bit realmode
protected.s bootloader for 32bit protected mode
main32bitSingle.s Mainfile for 32 bit Singlethread, needs protected.s as bootloader

util

in util/ are some little helper programs in python for debugging and easy manipulation of the .img Files

special thanks to:

• https://github.com/nanobyte-dev
• https://github.com/alexfru/BootProg
• https://wiki.osdev.org
• https://github.com/mell-o-tron/OS-Reference

license

none use it however you want