Establishing Direction

If there's one thing I've learned when it comes to projects (and this doesn't come from just my own experience) is that every project must start with a goal in mind.
What will this look like in the end?
What main features do I want it to have?
I realized I was missing these as I was looking at some old notes.
This may change later, but these are some basic features I would like it to have.

- General purpose computer
- 8 Bit machine
- Graphics capable

AmberOS and White Blaze - An introduction

based off of the von neumann model, White Blaze is a computer architecture that will run AmberOS, the one and only operating system being designed and emulated by Jesse Wood.

History and conception:

The name being dubbed by Ken Wood, the idea for AmberOS started with an interest in creating an operating system from scratch as a learning activity back in 2010.

An AVR chip was hooked to a DIY digital to analog converter to feed into a composite video feed on a DVD player. Development got to the point of outputting NTSC signal and displaying a low resolution black and white grid. Then technical difficulties arrived and the project was mostly forgotten about until around 2016 when Jesse began to re-think the project. Fast forward to February of 2017, The project started to be actively worked on and this blog was initiated to document progress.
Then in September of the same year, thanks again to Ken, The architecture was named White Blaze and the operating system itself was continued as AmberOS

if any information here is incorrectly stated or mislabeled, please shoot out an email so that it can be corrected. Thank you.

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