ShiftOS is a game about evolving an experiemental operating system called "ShiftOS" from a completly black and white text based command line environment to a fully graphical operating system filled with advanced features and beautiful colours.

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 more while you discover the secret behind ShiftOS.

Be careful though... ShiftOS is more than just an operating system!

ShiftOS started as a spiritual successor of Histacom, a project made by Philip Adams (known as 12padams or OSFirstTimer). It was developed under VB.NET using WinForms and have been through several development until it was handed over to a different developer as of 0.0.8 until the Alpha release of 0.0.9.

A return of ShiftOS known as ShiftOS-TheReturn was led by Michael The Shifter (known as acidiclights today) and have been spread through several aspects of the game such as Multiplayer-based game, Modification, etc. But the development was halted by an unknown group that demands to abandon ShiftOS.

After that, many iterations of revival and rewrite has been made. But most of those are either discontinued or in low activity. In November 1st, a revival project of ShiftOS has been made mainly by Everything Windows, it is going to be rewritten and reworked in VB.NET and later on migrates into C# and multi-platform support as the time progresses.

Minimal system requirement :

• Windows 7
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or higher
• 512MB RAM
• 64MB free space

Recommended requirement (The list is a subject to change) :

• Windows 10 or newer
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or higher
• 1GB RAM or higher
• at least 1GB of free space
• Active internet connection (necessary for several features)

To run ShiftOS, you need to download the latest release on the Release. If you download earlier version or you may have run it. The said version will check the latest version and automatically notify and recommend you to upgrade to the latest version. Once you have downloaded the latest version, you can run the executable ShiftOS-TheRevival.vX.X.X.exe and you can start playing ShiftOS.

• Windows 10 or newer
• 4GB RAM or higher
• at least 1GB of free space
• Visual Studio 2019 or newer It hasn't been tested on Visual Studio 2017 or earlier, but presumably it works. Other IDE hasn't been tested out, so be careful if you want to build ShiftOS using different IDE

https://github.com/EverythingWindows/ShiftOS-TheRevival.git This will create a local copy of the repository

To start edit the project and compile it, open ShiftOS-TheRevival.sln and it will open Visual Studio (or corresponding IDE). Once it has opened, you can compile by using the Play button with Debug and x86 option

Why is it written in VB.NET?

At first, I will write the code in VB.NET in order to make progresses of rewrite on the original code by Philip. After all features necessary are reworked, I will slowly migrate the code into C# while still using WinForms. And after reimplementing many functions from ShiftOS-TheReturn, We as the team will move into C++ and moving from WinForms to possibly Mono, from the migration to Mono, multi-platform support will be in work.

Why do you want to revive ShiftOS?

I found the concept of ShiftOS to be astonishing and great to implement, it needs a proper implementation (even though sometime I kinda mess at the code). acidiclights' TheReturn did have a good concept and work, but the group who demands the abandonment extinguishes the project's activity all together. Since then, many attempt didn't go well. I hope with this iteration/attempt, it will have a proper implementation and support from the community

Did you get the permission from Philip and Michael?

For Philip, I've already contaced to him via email as far back as 2020 back and forth. Long story short, Philip let me make the iteration and I am freely to take his code and reimplement that. As of Michael, since the game is open-source on GitHub and archived. According to the README.MD, I am allowed to use the code as long as I'm not reclaiming it fully as my own and put the credit and license in the code.

Can I contribute to the project?

Yes, you can. You can take part of the projecy by contributing the code, either in VB.NET, C#, or C++ phase. Your contribution and support means the world to us as the team

ShiftOS-TheRevival is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 License.