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Weekly Update (4/23/20) - Progress on Version 0.0.2

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Finally Some Real Progress! I've made a good amount of progress this week. Not as much as I'd like, but still pretty decent! First off, I commented the code. I know! Super exciting! But more importantly, I started work on the Text Desktop Environment, or as I like to call it, the Textop (I know very clever). Textop Progress So far, the Textop can't do much as it is impossible (as far as I can tell) to detect left and right clicks. This should be possible in the Dev Kit, so once I get a new laptop some time in the beginning of May, this will be fixed. Thus, I think DremDOS 0.0.2 will probably be done sometime in the middle of May. Here is a list of currently implemented features for Textop I reused the mouse driver from SparrOSDeveloperTeam to be able to be used with text.  However, the screen will need to be refreshed each mouse update with Console.Clear() or else the mouse will leave behind a trail. The "pseudo-screen-blanking" feature is al...

Weekly Update (4/18/20) - Progress on Version 0.0.2

It's Going to Be a While Before We Get 0.0.2 Let me just start out by saying 0.0.2 is going to be a very large update and so far it's hardly been worked on because I'm busy with real-life stuff (switching to online schooling due to COVID-19, other projects, family stuff, etc). To get an idea of how a project is coming along, you can take a look at  the master to-do list . There, I will add planned features and move them to the "Done" section when they are done. The less planned features there are, the closer to a release it is! What Features Are Currently Planned? At the time of writing, the following features are planned: A more complex text editor that's bearable to use A more user-friendly text UI DremDOS will still boot to the normal command line, but you can start the text UI by typing 'textui'. User accounts Currently, encryption of passwords is not planned. Please do not use any passwords used for any online accounts in Dr...