It has been a busy summer at FoobOS HQ. Here are the highlights.

New Apps and Games

• VoxKube - a 3D voxel building game. Explore a procedurally generated world, break and place blocks, and build anything you imagine. Complete with sound effects and a save option.
• Racing - a top-down 2D racing game. Race against AI opponents on a circuit track, with difficulty levels and lap counts.
• Dice - roll up to six dice, with roll history and statistics.
• Time Duration - calculate the interval between two dates and times, with handy presets.
• Pipe screensaver - the classic pipes animation joined the screen saver collection.

Snake Goes Mobile

Snake now has on-screen touch controls, so it is fully playable on phones and tablets. The food is an apple now, too. 🍎

A More Accessible Desktop

• The whole desktop is keyboard-friendly now: launch apps, manage windows, and even move windows with arrow keys - no mouse required.
• Screen reader support, color contrast, and forced-colors (high contrast mode) improvements throughout.
• A proper Privacy Policy app, in English and Finnish.

Under the Hood

• Wallpapers are now self-hosted - the site makes no third-party requests at all.
• Deep links like foobarsite.com/snake are search-engine friendly, with their own titles and previews.
• Installable as an app (PWA), faster first paint, and better behavior on mobile browsers.
• Machine-readable extras for AI agents: llms.txt, and a published policy for AI crawlers in robots.txt.

A screen saver feature has been added, accessible through the Settings application.

Screen Saver Types

• Bouncing Ball - A colorful bouncing ball with glow and trail effects. Configurable speed, size, and trail length.
• Starfield - Stars flying through space towards the viewer. Configurable speed and star count.
• Matrix Rain - Classic Matrix-style falling characters. Configurable speed, font size, and fade speed.

This is a personal static website that resembles a graphical operating system. It tries to provide a familiar desktop experience in the web browser.

I'll add various applications and experimental things along the way.

Key Components

• EventBus - Cross-module communication system
• WindowManager - Handles window creation, dragging, and z-index management
• StateManager - Persists user preferences and window states
• Desktop - Manages desktop icons and background
• Taskbar - System taskbar with clock and running apps
• StartMenu - Hierarchical app launcher
• SystemTray - Language switcher and system status

It also comes with various applications, that are added mostly for decoration at the moment.