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A cross-platform version of the ETH Oberon System 3 compatible with the Oberon+ compiler and IDE

12 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2023-10-17 · latest 2025-10-29

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  1. …then try to run a pre-compiled macOS M1 compatible application on your new Sequoia system, such as https://github.com/rochus-keller/oberonsystem3/ or https://github.com/rochus-keller/leancreator/ . Requires quite some tricks so that at…
  2. …using an FPGA; to reduce his effort he left out many things from the past. You could have a look at https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3 instead which indeed has a GUI with an Oberon based widget framework; the referenced…
    comment by Rochus · 2025-05-17 · in OBNC – Oberon-07 Compiler
  3. …Oberon system versions based on this approach ( https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem and https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3 ). Replacing the PAL/SDL adapter to a plain frame buffer and serial input seems feasible.…
    comment by Rochus · 2025-05-04 · in Pascal for Small Machines
  4. …a powerfull cross-platform user interface framework, but also an SDL binding, which is e.g. used by https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3/ .
    comment by Rochus · 2025-04-09 · in Vishap Oberon Compiler
  5. …You can even generate platform-independent C which I e.g. used to port the Oberon System 3 ( https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3 ).
  6. ….semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Oberon-companion-a... You can access the source code from Rochus fork, https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3 Or the Active Oberon evolution, although not directly done by Niklaus Wirth,…
  7. …lean operating systems with GUIs can be built with high-level languages, even with GC (see e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3/); so writing such a thing in assembler is certainly impressive, but also a cul-de-sac.
  8. …all. You can use that one which easily starts on all platforms without taking control of the PC: https://github.com/rochus-keller/oberonsystem3
    comment by Rochus · 2023-11-12 · in Free Oberon: Cross-platform Oberon IDE
  9. …in not more than 10 minutes. Reboot. Done. BLISS again. For playing around I'm tempted to try https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3 (since you mentioned A2 ;-)) but probably not, because I'd rather enjoy riding my new…
  10. …LayLa layout language is pretty neat. Converts a simple formal language to Gadgets (widgets). Demo: https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3/blob/b2d16e32...
    comment by carapace · 2023-10-21 · in Oberon System 3
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    story by hollimolli · 2023-10-21 · 35 comments
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    Show HN: A cross-platform version of the ETH Oberon System 3
    story by Rochus · 2023-10-17 · 0 comments