#C64OS

Der Motzmichel auf Sharkeymotzmichel@federation.network
2025-12-28

#retro #retrogaming #commodore #c64

There is a C64 OS called
#c64OS that works with mouse and is quite powerful.

Have a look:
https://c64os.com/

A video from the CEO of Commodore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVeW2ZlV2WU&t=1221s

I would love to be able to send and receive Email (for example) with my new C64 Ultimate breadbin, which I will hopefully receive in February/March next year (aka soon).

2025-10-02

@haitchfive No. You do you :P I don't really know what your goals are. Your "gui" stuff is interesting. Have you seen #C64OS? It's got a real object-orientated GUI toolkit, no faking it

2025-09-13

Creator of C64OS Talks VIC-II Video Timing
It's a pretty good run-down of the various weird timing issues of the Commodore 64. Machines at that time had to do all kinds of weird things to keep up the overriding priority of microcomputers of the time: building a consistent video signal that could be displayed on a television. Nearly all machines needed special hardware
setsideb.com/creator-of-c64os-
#hardware #retro #c64os #hardware #retro #timing #VICII

2025-05-08

@jimblimey Not ZX, but have you seen #C64OS? c64os.com/

The wonders of the modern world: accessing Wikipedia with Commodore 64 from 1982.

Of course, this is "cheating" in all manner of ways, today's web is simply beyond reach of a device this limited. Just the deceptively simple looking, plain html version of the English Mastodon page is some 650 kilobytes, over ten times the size of the entire memory in the C64. It would require two whole two-sided C64 floppies to store on uncompressed. And that's without any pictures.

The actual network handling is done by modern hardware hidden into an extension cartridge (Ultimate II+ in this case), the C64 only sees a fast modem.

The C64OS 1.07 added support for networking through such devices, and comes with a specialized Wikipedia application that talks a simple protocol to a special service on a modern server that turns the actual Wikepedia page into something somehow consumable and viewable by the C64 - in the full glory of 40x25 character display.

It's all rather silly of course, but also neat 🤓
Can you imagine the device you're using to read this message still in use 40 years from now?

#c64 #c64os

Commodore 64 running C64OS 1.07, showing the English Wikipedia page on Mastodon.
2025-02-23
Jason H. Moore, Ph.D.moorejh@mastodon.online
2025-01-14

Really @TheRegister? I lived through this era & can say it was a lot more complex than that... theregister.com/2025/01/03/ree #BASIC #coding #retrocomputing #c64os

2025-01-05

Reading about 90s era pcs from old magazines and such has generated me much excitement, but delving in with 86box has not been joyful. Moving on to tinker with 8bits next. C64 more specifically, I did buy that copy of c64os after all. #c64 #c64os #retrocomputing #8bit

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