Made-In-Basement/ember

An operating system written from scratch: boot sector, FAT filesystem, DOS-compatible interrupts, sound, a 32-bit runtime and a graphical desktop

Hardware, IoT & roboticsAssembly

1.5 Cooling Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

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About the project

An operating system written from scratch in assembly: its own boot sector, FAT, DOS-compatible interrupts, sound drivers and a graphical desktop that runs DOS programs and Doom.

Useful for

Boot from a USB stick on a real laptop without Linux or Windows
Run DOS games and programs like Doom or Alley Cat with emulated Sound Blaster
Study the kernel, driver and bootloader sources as a learning example of an OS

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

5 stars so far today, about 7 expected by the end of the day.
Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 27% of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 5 days old and already has 149 stars.
Top new repositories this week: #75.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 149
Stars in a day: 7
Forks: 11
Issues and pull requests: 3
Watchers: 2
Language: Assembly
Created: September 13, 2026
Last push: September 14, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026Top new repositories this week: #60
September 17, 2026Top new repositories this week: #61
September 16, 2026Top new repositories this week: #87
September 15, 2026Top new repositories this week: #102
September 14, 2026Top new repositories this week: #155

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