Do yourself a favor and give this distro a try, especially if you are a retrogamer fan. Warning, it’s HUGE (38 gigs, I recommend the torrent)

9 year old me would have FREAKED at how awesome this is. Yes, it’s gaudy. Would I use it every day? probably not. But I am going to have it on another hard drive to fire up when I’m feeling fun! (yes, I realize compiz is 15 years old, I had just forgotten about it ha!)

https://www.commodoreos.net/CommodoreOS.aspx

The forums are up to date and super helpful. I had a little trouble getting it to run on Mint in Virtualbox but just had to change a couple settings (it’s laid out in the forum easily).

Even if you don’t end up installing it for real, if you’re like me you’ll want to steal the startup sound for your own machine!

Also, if you’re into this, give Atari OS a try as well- though it’s no where near as cool, and a lot more stripped down.

      • whaleross@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        26 days ago

        Most C64 games are less than 64KB, the largest ones are maybe one megabyte. So counting generously that would be 200MB in total. I think a minimal Linux that runs on most hardware with Vice and game selector front-end would be a gig maximum. So what did they put in there? Uncompressed 4K long play video?

        Edit; Oh, 200+ “Linux compatible games”. So they pre-installed whatever Linux distro had in games. But it still sounds excessively large to me. I don’t know if I see the point in downloading everything for an installation when I’m probably not interested in most of it anyway. Then again, weird decisions is legacy Commodore so points for authenticity.

        • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          24 days ago

          modern linux distros with fancy compiz effects eat up space like crazy - it’s basically a full ubuntu with tons of eye candy, emulators and those 200+ games preinstalled. most of the bloat is probly from the desktop environment and modern dependencies rather than the actual c64 content.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    27 days ago

    I’m really shocked people are getting into the old 16/64k OS’es. They were not fun to work with 😂

    I feel a need to tell everyone that if you’re just looking for the games, use an emulator. Probably not worth the hassle of actually running it to hardware-native accuracy.

    Also, the original Wolfenstein on C64 is still fun as hell to play.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      41·
      26 days ago

      people are getting into the old 16/64k OS’es

      The operative word is not in that sentence. It’s mostly people getting back into the old systems. i.e. middle aged guys wanting to relive their youth.

      There’ll be a handful of curious young people, I’m sure, but it’s mostly old men with disposable income wearing their rose-tinted spectacles. Perifractic is no exception.

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