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Collapse OS - Graham72 - 29-10-2026
After my FUZIX experiment, I decided to go to the other end of the OS spectrum.
Collapse OS is a minimalist, open-source operating system engineered by Virgil Dupras to survive a global societal or industrial collapse. Built on the Forth programming language, it runs entirely on salvaged, low-power 8-bit processors like the ubiquitous Z80. Users can deploy Collapse OS to program scavenged microcontrollers, automate basic machinery, and manage local text files or radio communications without modern infrastructure.
So attached a tiny OS. Boot using Vibedrone Queen builds. A ubee512 version is in the works allowing disk saves and an Editor.
A curiosity that may prove useful.
This Microbee build has about 225 words. In Forth, every routine is a “word”, and you can define your own with :
RE: Collapse OS - fathertedcrilly - 29-10-2026
(29-10-2026, 11:33 AM)Graham72 Wrote: After my FUZIX experiment, I decided to go to the other end of the OS spectrum.
Collapse OS is a minimalist, open-source operating system engineered by Virgil Dupras to survive a global societal or industrial collapse. Built on the Forth programming language, it runs entirely on salvaged, low-power 8-bit processors like the ubiquitous Z80. Users can deploy Collapse OS to program scavenged microcontrollers, automate basic machinery, and manage local text files or radio communications without modern infrastructure.
So attached a tiny OS. Boot using Vibedrone Queen builds. A ubee512 version is in the works allowing disk saves and an Editor.
A curiosity that may prove useful.
This Microbee build has about 225 words. In Forth, every routine is a “word”, and you can define your own with :
I remember typing in the forth interpreter from Your Computer ( of course had to hack the string functions as they were Microsoft Basic syntax )
That must have been 40 years ago
Thanks
Tony
RE: Collapse OS - Graham72 - 30-10-2026
another day, another build, now with retro mainframe lights in line 25. Two img: one for vibedrone and one for UBEE512. And documentation in each .zip
To use editor type VE wait while it loads blocks thru to 22. then type VE again.
Top line: the status: block number, count, cursor line and column.
I: and F:: the insert and find buffers, empty for now.
Lines 1–16: the block’s 16 lines of 64 characters, with the | gutter marking the right edge.
To try it safely, start in a blank block, so you don’t change Collapse OS’s own source:
Type 100G (100, then capital G) to go to block 100. The block will be empty.
Press I, type some text, for example : hi ." Hello from the Microbee" ;, then press Return.
Press ! to save the block to disk now.
Press q to quit back to ok, then type flush.
Test it: 100 load compiles your block, and hi then prints the message.
As always criticism and comments very welcome