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ShiftOS
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ShiftOS is a game about evolving an experimental operating system called
"ShiftOS" from a completely black and white text based command line based OS
to a fully graphical operating system filled with advanced features and
beautiful colours. The level of customization will exceed the levels of real
world operating systems.
This repo is an archive repo of the original ShiftOS codebase.
### Official links
* [Official forums](http://shiftos.net)
* [YouTube channel](https://youtube.com/shiftosdevs)
Frequently asked questions
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### Is ShiftOS a Linear Game?
Think of ShiftOS as if it was an open world game yet the "world" is the desktop
environment of your computer. The game is non-linear meaning you can focus on
expanding and evolving ShiftOS anyway you like by earning codepoints and
spending them in the Shiftorium with a range of upgrade options. Buy more
programs, more colours, GUI upgrades and heaps more while you discover the
secret behind ShiftOS.
### Does ShiftOS Have a Storyline?
Currently ShiftOS is just a game engine and the focus is on gameplay rather than
storyline right now but the general storyline will be as follows. ShiftOS is
more than just an operating system! It's creator know as "DevX" hijacks your
computer with the intention of using it as a remote test bed for his
experimental operating system "ShiftOS". Who or what is DevX and what is his
intentions... Discover more as you evolve and explore the digital world to
uncover the secrets behind ShiftOS.
### Is ShiftOS Free?
ShiftOS is a free game. Currently, ShiftOS is still in it's early versions so
there is loads of missing content. As of March 7th 2015, ShiftOS is an open
source game.
### Is ShiftOS an Indie Game?
Currently ShiftOS is an open source indie game managed by a team of people.
Anyone can contribute to ShiftOS, but your pull requests will be monitored and
tested.
Death of the original ShiftOS source code
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The original ShiftOS has been written in Visual Basic with not so much love.
This has caused the code to be quite not intuitive to work with. Several
attempts to make ShiftOS better developable since 2014.
### "Cleanup"
This has been the first attempt to clean the ShiftOS code, and the only attempt
based on the original code. It has been lead by
[rezedus](https://github.com/rezedus) but has fallen into silence when creating
a central class for window borders. Its code is still available in the "cleanup"
branch.
### [shift-redux](https://github.com/ShiftOS/shift-redux)
A ShiftOS clone based on TypeScript and NW.js. At this moment the repository is
in a skeleton state. The spooky skeletons are present and ready to provide a
base for a ShiftOS clone that doesn't get as messy as the original. It's
developed by [phillips1012](https://github.com/phillips1012).
### [shiftos-cs](https://github.com/ShiftOS/shiftos-cs)
ShiftOS rewrite in C# lead by [rezedus](https://github.com/rezedus). It aims to
be fully customizable by JSON files which would be automatically compiled to
.cs files on build before compiling the actual executable.
Although the game was open-source and released under the Apache 2 license, I use this code for other things like testing my code before actually using it in something better. So, I wouldn't trust this source code. Plus, the game's deprecated.