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BoltOS: Hobby OS Runs Windows Binaries, DOOM Natively

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

BoltOS is a 64-bit hobby operating system written in C and Assembly that supports dual bootloaders, NVMe drivers, and a native PE32+ executable loader to run Windows x86-64 console apps. It features a custom GUI with TrueType font rasterization, networking, and a port of DOOM. The project is open-source on GitHub and targets modern hardware with advanced storage and graphics support.

Meridian48 take
While impressive as a hobby project, BoltOS's claims of running Windows binaries and NVMe support should be taken with a grain of salt until independently verified.
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