I was curious to try, so I followed the project's Makefile to create floppy.img and than ran it in a web x86 emulator. It worked!<p>Grab the floppy.img file here: <a href="https://paste.c-net.org/CannotCursing" rel="nofollow">https://paste.c-net.org/CannotCursing</a><p>Then head over to: <a href="https://copy.sh/v86/" rel="nofollow">https://copy.sh/v86/</a><p>Set the "Floppy disk image" to the above-downloaded file, and click "Start Emulation"<p>Cheers & Best wishes!
From the readme:<p>> that uses the BIOS to load data from the boot disk<p>That's not a bootsector demo (it's larger than 512 bytes). From reading the source: It's a hybrid bootloader + demo, in a pragmatic manner.<p>Here's an eclectic selection of other nice, not widely known christmas themed demos I found earlier (merry christmas!):<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X74bhXltFo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X74bhXltFo</a> (BBC Micro)<p>> Bitshifters - Xmas 19 Demo<p>---<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t02TvLbQec" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t02TvLbQec</a> (PC, CGA)<p>> Una simpatica demo natalizia datata 1986 per l'amato PC. Quante volte l'ho guardata quand'ero più giovincello:o)<p>---<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDitgPGh_MQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDitgPGh_MQ</a> (Atari 8-bit)<p>> christmas collection demo for Atari 8-bit
I’m curious about these qemu-first OSes (like this one I’ve been following [1]). Do they usually just work when you boot a modern pc with them?<p>[1] <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SerenityOS" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SerenityOS</a>
Fun, reminds me of some similar holiday-themed DOS executables I made back in the day. They were drawn using a program called TheDraw and then could be dumped onscreen with Turbo Pascal or C. Add a few batch commands to check the date in the login script and you’ve got some holiday cheer.<p>Believe I converted some of them into ansi and was trying to get the old encoding into utf8 last Christmas.