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  1. I have left the #C64OS community due to the developer's unwillingness to take a stance against AI. He hasn't reached the point yet where he discovers that slop coders don't care to learn about his carefully hand-crafted code and thoughtful design choices, they just want tech support as to why the machine didn't get it right the first time. This choice is going to explode in his face, but I can't convince a person of something they don't want to be convinced of.

    Not the first and not the last person who thinks that by being neutral over AI there will be a pot-of-gold at the end the rainbow for them. The only thing at the end of that rainbow is fascism.

    #retrocomputing #commodore #c64

  2. Last evening I downloaded the #GUI64 v1.97 to the #C64 Core on the #Mega65. Connected the #SD2IEC device and the #mouSTer.

    It just worked - including the scroll wheel on the mouse!

    (Used OBS Studio and the Capture Card to connect the Mega65 to get the CRT look with a background image just for fun.)

    I'm now very intrigued to buy #C64OS so I also can combine this setup with the #TeensyROM for networking. Using as much peripherals as I can.

    #Retrocomputing #Commodore #8bit #Commodore64

  3. #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).

  4. @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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. He said he will be back, and he was correct! #Terminator2
    Time to check each and every copy for quality and then pack, label and post. First Subscriber batch going out early tomorrow morning. Look out for an email! 😊📧
    freeze64.com/freeze64-issue-72
    #Commodore64 #c64os