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GEMS NT

GEMS is Essentially Maybe Spinel Next Technologies.

Happy 128 commits!

Important notices!

In order to contribute, you must follow the NodeMixaholic C.O.C.

Also: This is not Spinel, we are just trying to be better. ;)

Now, we have a new versioning system, basically it's FULL_YEAR-MONTH-DAY-REVISION, IF NEEDED

Requirements

Required to build:

• Visual Studio 2022 w/ C#
• Cosmos OS User Kit
• .NET 6.0 SDK
• .NET 5.0 SDK
• VB2010 Redis.

Required to use:

• VMWare/A spare x86 pc. (Ok, it's not required, but it will most likely break your main operating system and/or erase your data if you don't)
• The VMWare image provided here or a hard drive formatted as FAT32
• The latest release of GEMS NT.

NOTE: Make sure you have Visual Studio closed while installing Cosmos!

How to build.

• Install COSMOS
• After installed, go to Debug build settings, change build to ISO, then goto Cosmos (new), and finally then disable Debuging.
• When that's done, just build it and enjoy. In VMWare, of course! :)

VM building instructions

• Create an Other 64bit VM with at least 256MB virtual RAM
• Replace HDD IDE image with the one provided
• Replace CD Image with GEMS NT

Benefits of using NT over the old GEMS?

• More modern, simple, and easy code!
• Easy to use and compile!
• Clear fixed!
• You can finally input commands! (Type cmds for commands!)
• Text doesn't wrap around to the top!
• A filesystem!
• Now with E-EXP (Extra EXPerience) from the creator.
• All of this (and maybe even more) thanks to Cosmos!

Links to useful resources:

SamLang Manual

Fun facts

The GEMS team has an internal function to play notes. It goes something like this: PCSpeaker.PCSpeaker.play(PCSpeaker.PCSpeaker.notes.D3, 1000);

Also, I (NodeMixaholic) mispelled "micro.cs" as "macro.cs", I left it in there because I thought it was funny. :o)

Fun fact 3: The GEMS logo is a cross between A Spinel (the mineral) with a crack in the shape of an "S", and a heart, to show that this is a Homage to PatchMixolydic and her Spinel OS. Also: The SamLang logo is a cross between a shield, a gem, as well as the initials for SamLang, S.L. (Symbolized as SL)