Devlog #8 — I left the window open

Last time I made files and Z-Retro feel like a real OS. Then I sat in it and it felt empty. Just wallpaper and a clock.

So I added the small stuff you notice when you hang out.

New apps: Image Viewer for Photos, Hex Editor, Minesweeper, a simple News reader, and Voice Recorder. Music and the recorder show up in a little tray.

Also weather, a desktop calendar, and a screensaver if you walk away. rm -rf / bluescreens you for fun.

Zip finally works. Drop one and it unpacks. You can also export a backup of the fake home folder.

Paint, Writer, Calc, and Editor got a bit better. Undo, find/replace, fill handle, markdown preview. Still simple.

Same setup as always — no React, apps plug into the kernel. Cursor helped with some of the busy work. I still edited everything.

News and weather need the internet. Big files and big zips can still hit storage limits. Live site won’t have this until I redeploy.

Build and tests pass.

Not sure what’s next. Maybe nothing. Maybe Minesweeper.