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>I think TempleOS lacks a really good means of sharing programs like that, but I don't know. I looked for a way to spit the contents of a file out to a serial port, maybe there isn't one; I couldn't find one.

Not a built-in one, but Crunk wrote it. It allows you to send files over serial at 115.2k, which is fine for text or orther small files, but any time I want to export a distro ISO, it takes forever.

>So there's another explanation, maybe: people don't really like to use TempleOS, they just like to hack on it, add things that are "missing".

This is correct, and for a good reason: TempleOS doesn’t have much to offer to a user. The built-in games are bad or at least lacking, the only good game doesn’t work, there’s no drawing program (on a system that feels like a natural choice for 4-bit pixel art), the standard sprite editor is unusable, and there are no other multimedia capabilities by design; the only entertainment you have is a text editor and a compiler. It’s for people like nroot and me, those who enjoy making stuff and don’t care if anyone will ever use it.

That being said, HolyPaint - the drawing program I’ve been writing on and off - has one active user, which is likely more than any other TempleOS program not written by Terry himself. Bara is a saint though, and I don’t think anyone else is going to put up with its idiosyncrasies.