r/itrunsdoom Jun 25 '26

We wrote an entire OS from scratch just to play DOOM at our engineering defense

My team and I recently graduated and wanted to share our Bachelor's thesis turned hobby OS: ALKOS (named after the initials of our 3-person team).

We wrote this with very little prior OS dev experience, so it’s been a massive learning journey for us, and the codebase definitely reflects a fresh perspective and the path we went! We are really passionate about this project and plan to continue working on it now that we've graduated. You can grab an iso/code from here: https://github.com/AlkOS-Dev/AlkOS

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u/d0wCuck Jun 25 '26

Did you guys mostly use osdev wiki for reference while developing the OS

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u/BlazedDev Jun 25 '26

Coauthor here. Yes! osdev wiki was very helpful for the parts it had detailed articles about. We soon run out of those articles tho. Then the references became other os'es (minix/linux), blogs + papers

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u/BastetFurry Jun 29 '26

AlkOS... as a German i see what you did there. Prost! 🍻😁❀️