I am developing a 32 bit, protected mode hobby operating system. At the moment, I am looking to add simple sound support. To do this, I'm looking to use the sound blaster 16 and use the direct mode...

There are real and unreal modes of x86 CPU, contrary to the protected mode. BIOS provides basic drivers to access hardware. Could those drivers be used by the OS? Sure MS-DOS is that kind of OS, b...

How is it possible to run assembly code in an empty virtual machine (virtualbox, vmware) instance? I want to try writing a simple bootloader. My aim is to work for a hobby operating system.