I'd be interested in your opinion of as an OS and a a monument to obsession.

Harsh.  :-@

I couldn't work out if the narrator's voice was his real accent, or if he was trying and failing to sound like a drunken castrato.

Not sure I'm the person to offer an opinion, so. In use it's like a very clunky menu driven UNIX or DOS system, with some ultra low-res icons, widgets and animations. Comparatively little thought has been directed at ease of use and it looks absolutely awful, with blinking and scrolling text all over the screen like some demented signature from 'the Castle'. No doubt, had he lived and remained relatively focused on development, that would have been addressed, or maybe he'd have grown out of his love of scrolling text. I suppose more time was spent on efficiency and function - it's alleged to make use of individual CPU cores particularly well, for instance. It has a comprehensive editor and a command prompt for C (you can type whole lines of code in for instant compilation), native TempleOS commands, and program names - which will be launched if possible. I launched a couple of games and can confirm that the midi sound accompaniment was really cool. The main stumbling block for evaluating it, is that it only uses 256K for video display, and churns out 640 x 480. I couldn't find any way to adjust this and a bit of reading around suggests there isn't a way yet, especially as God instructed Terry to make it so. Even at my laptop's minimum display of 800 x 600, it's small. At 1920 x 1080 it's smaller than a credit card. I could probably scrunch my display down to 640 x 480 but I can't be bothered. 

Things worked, although I did not know how to work everything, and it appeared to be stable. I won't be replacing any of my Windows or Linux boxes with TempleOS soon.

Anyway, about that, I've deleted it after getting a message from God on the random message game.

...it's mission is complete. Now we're looking to you to deliver the end times, with divine dispensation for Teh Possie.

I'll do my best. 

End of times, you say? Dispose of Teh Possie?

"This is teh supper of the mighty one".

I'd be happy with a bit of rapture please.

I'd be happy with a bit of rapture please. No need to go the whole end of times on my behalf.

OK, but proper rapture, OK? Not just flying dreams or that kind of malarkey.

Oh yeah, I'm talking ecstasy of St. Theresa levels here.

Hmmm. Nun has numerous orgasms but when questioned about the noise claims it must have been God paying a visit. Not quite what I had in mind. I think we've come full circle with this thread*.



*not a euphemism

I was thinking more the evocation of rapture captured in the face of the Bernini sculpture telling the tale:

Of course you were

(waggles eyebrows)

I know. We all find a picture helps sometimes. 

Nah it's probably done with a virtual penknife.