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Nitrocid KS v0.1.0 Beta 3 - Manual
Nitrocid KS v0.1.0 Beta 3 - Manual
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  • Versions and Compatibility
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      • ✨v0.0.1.x series
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      • 👾v0.0.24.x series
      • 🔮v0.1.x.x series
        • ⚠️Known issues for 0.1.0 Beta
    • 👍Compatibility Notes for KS API Revisions
      • 🔼Upgrading from API v1.0
      • 🔼Upgrading from API v1.1
      • 🔼Upgrading from API v1.2
      • 🔼Upgrading from API v1.3
      • 🔼Upgrading from API v2.0
      • 🔼Upgrading from API v2.1
      • 🔼Upgrading to API v3.0
        • ⬆️From 0.0.24.x to 0.1.0 Beta 1
        • ⬆️From 0.1.0 Beta 1 to 0.1.0 Beta 2
        • ⬆️From 0.1.0 Beta 2 to 0.1.0 Beta 3
  • Installation and Maintenance
    • 📀Installing the Kernel
      • 💻Windows
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      • 💻Windows
      • 🍎macOS
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    • ⚒️Building the Kernel
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      • 📱Building on Android
    • 🧰Kernel Modifications
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      • 📉Analyzers for Mods
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        • 📉Text - NKS0001
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        • 📉ConsoleBase - NKS0006
        • 📉ConsoleBase - NKS0007
        • 📉ConsoleBase - NKS0008
        • 📉ConsoleBase - NKS0009
        • 📉Files - NKS0010
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        • 📉Kernel - NKS0053
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        • 🧩Console Wrappers
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      • 🖲️Console Input
        • ⌨️Interactive TUI
        • 📽️Presentation System
      • ♦️Inner Essentials
        • 🪧Kernel Placeholders
        • 🔐The Permissions
        • 👥The Users
        • 📞Kernel Threads
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        • 🎛️Kernel Arguments
        • 📒Kernel Journaling
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        • 🎰Random Number Generation
        • 🌍Network Tools
      • 🌀Miscellaneous APIs
  • 🧱Project Dependencies
  • Report an issue
  • Source code
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  • KS v0.0.24.0 or lower
  • Installation
  • Method 1: Chocolatey
  • Method 2: Manual unpack
  • Bleeding-edge
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  1. Installation and Maintenance
  2. Installing the Kernel

Windows

How to install Nitrocid KS on Windows

Last updated 1 year ago

Installing Nitrocid KS on Windows is pretty easy, but we recommend installing the simulator using the Chocolatey package manager.

Before performing the installation, your Windows system must meet the following requirements:

Extra kernel add-ons may require additional hardware on your computer to work. For example, the BassBoom addon requires that you have audio drivers installed on your computer.

KS v0.1.0 or later

To run Nitrocid KS in the absolute minimum requirements, your computer needs to have the following installed:

System
Framework
Terminal

Windows 7+

However, we recommend that you have the below software installed on your computer to get the best out of the kernel:

System
Framework
Terminal

Windows 10+

Windows 10 cmd.exe

KS v0.0.24.0 or lower

We support installing KS 0.0.24.0 or lower until the full deprecation of .NET Framework.

To run Nitrocid KS in the absolute minimum requirements, your computer needs to have the following installed:

System
Framework
Terminal

Windows 7+

Windows 7+

However, we recommend that your computer have the below software installed to get the best out of the kernel:

System
Framework
Terminal

Windows 10+

Windows 10 cmd.exe

Windows 10+

Windows 10 cmd.exe

Installation

There are several ways to install Nitrocid KS on Windows systems. We recommend installing KS using the Chocolatey package manager for simplicity.

Method 1: Chocolatey

  1. Ensure that Chocolatey is installed to your system PATH

  2. Open your favorite terminal emulator, like ConEmu, and execute the following command: choco install ks

  3. Start Nitrocid KS using ks

Method 2: Manual unpack

If you like to manually unpack the Nitrocid KS packages, follow these steps:

  1. Ensure that you have all the required software installed

  2. Open your favorite terminal emulator, like ConEmu, and change the working directory to a folder containing the Nitrocid KS executable

  3. Execute ks or Nitrocid.exe to start the kernel

For 0.0.24.0 or older, files that end with the -dotnet prefix means that it's for .NET 6.0.

Bleeding-edge

Bleeding-edge builds usually come from building the development branch of the kernel, and they usually contain bugs and other untested features.

If you're a tester to such software, please follow the steps on your Windows machine. Please be sure that you're signed in to your GitHub account.

  1. Select the most recent build

  2. Scroll down to Artifacts and click on the ks-build button to download the ZIP file

  3. Extract the file. Be sure that you have the latest version of 7-Zip or your favorite archive manager installed

  4. Open your favorite terminal emulator, like ConEmu, and change the working directory to a folder containing the Nitrocid KS executable

  5. Execute ks or Nitrocid.exe to start the kernel

or Windows 10 cmd.exe

If you see the shield icon in the corner of the Nitrocid logo shown in the Nitrocid.exe file, don't worry about it; Nitrocid only probes your hard drives with the help of SpecProbe (), nothing else.

or Windows 10 cmd.exe

or Windows 10 cmd.exe

This step-by-step guide shows you how to install Nitrocid KS using the package manager, , assuming that you already have it on your system.

Download the latest release ZIP file from .

Unpack the ZIP archive to any folder of your choice using

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ConEmu
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.NET Framework 4.8
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.NET 6.0
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