The Commodore 64 was a revolutionary computer system for its day and age. Right after 4 a long time, even though, it will get more difficult and more difficult to use these pcs for everything much more than instructional or hobby electronics tasks. [Gregory Nacu] is fiercly decided to problem this plan, while, and has long gone to good extremes to make this components nonetheless appropriate in the modern-day age by crafting a wholly new operating technique for the Commodore machines.
Regarded as C64OS, it squeezes all the things it can out of the 8 little bit processor and 64 kB of memory. The new OS consists of switchable desktop workspaces, a windowing program, draggable icons, a Mac-fashion menu bar at the top rated, and fall-down menus for the icons (identified as aliases in the demonstrations). The filesystem is mainly revamped as perfectly and enables a a lot more contemporary directory program to be applied. There are however some constraints like a display screen resolution of 320×200 pixels and a preset colour palette which only permits for a handful of colors, but this OS may possibly give Home windows 3.1 a run for its cash.
The undertaking is even now staying actively formulated but it has occur a long way into a fairly usable state. It can be run on unique hardware as effectively as extensive as you have a strategy of finding the image to the antique equipment somehow. If not, the OS can probably run on any quantity of C64 emulators we have featured in the previous.
Thanks to [Stephen] for the idea!
