How would I create my own operating system?

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I have a big project coming up for me soon. I was going to create my own very basic video game console. Now, I was going to set it up like a pc (small case to hold hard drive, mother board, ect). Using hdmi to display to a television, and reading from a disc to play my own created games. I figured I'd want to create an operating system (for when I turn it on, I can display the name of my system, and when I insert a disc, it will start my game automatically.) Is this the right solution for doing that? Or is there a much simpler way to go about this. If anyone can post links to tutorials or helpful information that would be awesome too.

What I have tried:

I've google'd the web for a couple hours and haven't found anything useful yet. Not sure if I'm steering in the right direction.

Posted 26-Nov-16 10:58am

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Updated 26-Nov-16 11:10am

OriginalGriff

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2016-11-26T11:10:00

I suspect you are biting off a much bigger chunk of food that you think: writing an OS from scratch is not a trivial task! Heck, when the PC was first invented, IBM didn't write their own OS for it, but bought it in from a tiny company running out of a garage called "Microsoft" - and at the time, IBM was the biggest computer company in the world...

It's as big job, particularly if you want to produce a Graphics based OS rather than the much, much simpler text based OS that MS provided.

But...create operating system - Google Search[^] will give you some very good resources to start from - with a serious amount of reading for you do first. There really isn't a good sport cut here - you have a serious amount to learn before you get anything useable up and running.

Good luck! I hope you persist with this, and succeed.