Special thanks to "The Sarge" for this beautiful C64 OS boot screen.
Bundled in the free update to C64 OS v1.05
WELCOME
C64OS.com is the official website of C64 OS, a new operating system expansion for
your Commodore 64 that gives it a whole new set of sophisticated tools with a
powerful and unified user interface. C64 OS gives you a featureful File Manager, that
lets you copy and move whole directory trees between any two places on any two devices.
A tabbed interface lets you be in up to 4 places at the same time. The favorites,
recents, path bar, and menu bar, access with a mouse or keyboard shortcuts lets
you whizz around your C64's drives at record speed.
The App Launcher gives you multiple desktops, each of which you can customize with a
different backdrop, hint color, and color coded aliases to C64 OS Apps, C64 OS
Utililities and to original C64 games and programs.
C64 OS comes bundled with 30 useful Utilities that can be opened and used
concurrently with a C64 OS application, including: A calculator, a calendar,
a timer and stopwatch, a text viewer, a memory inspector and much more.
Get your copy of C64 OS today.
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Purchase a copy of C64 OS, install on any number of Commodore computers and emulators,
for your personal use and enjoyment. Install free software updates.
NEWS, EDITORIALS, REFERENCE
In the weblog, you'll find posts that cover news, editorial reviews, programming
reference documents, technical deep dives into software and hardware, plus thoughts
and progress updates on the development of C64 OS.
Over time my posts have gotten longer and more detailed. These in-depth posts take
time research, write and edit. I have been keeping to steady pace of at least one
such post a month. It is difficult to get regular readers if new content is not
showing up more frequently. To help cope with this, the weblog also has an RSS
feed. Subscribe to it, and you'll get new posts in your feed reader as soon as
they're published. Or follow me on
X (Twitter), where I announce each new post.
Recent Posts
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COMMODORE 8 BIT BUYER'S GUIDE
Commodore hardware is great. The architecture has proven to be very well designed
as is still usable and expandable decades later. But in order to take advantage
of that architecture design, you need to actually expand it by building or
purchasing expansion hardware.
Commodore 8-bit computers have had lots of third-party supporting hardware. And
while much of it is no longer commercially available, there are hundreds of modern
projects and expansion options that are available and under development today.
When I returned from my hiatus, I was amazed by the rich support the C64 still has,
from hardware, software and publications. However, I learned about these things
in dribs and drabs by haunting IRC channels, message boards and following C64 fans
on X (Twitter).
The Commodore 8 Bit Buyer's Guide is a graphical catalog of all the hardware
products, projects and kits I know of that are commercially available today.
Product feature pages show high-res photos, link to the homepage, documentation
and supporting software, include a mini review and product description and list
prices and instructions on how you can buy the product for yourself.
Quick Links
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C64 OS: AVAILABLE FOR ORDER!
C64 OS version 1.04 comes with a professionally printed User's Guide, two
promotional stickers, and a custom labeled System Card (SD Card) with a complete
system pre-installed and ready to boot up. The System Card includes an OS archive
and installation tools which can be used to install C64 OS on a different C64 mass
storage device.
C64 OS v1.04 includes system-level files, plus, File Manager, App Launcher
and 4 other Applications, 30 Utilities, including Calculator, Time, Today,
Settings, File Info, and Open and Save dialogs. This system includes 12 hardware
drivers, over 15 shared libraries, 24 Toolkit Classes, and 14 data type loaders.
As a bonus, the standard System Card also comes with a CMD HD hard drive image
and an IDE64 hard drive image pre-installed with C64 OS for use in the latest
versions of VICE, as well as sample MText files, graphics files, and SID music.
Updates and expansion Apps and Utilities are available for download from the
Official Software Updates page, to add to
and expand the capabilities of the base C64 OS system.
Learn more about C64 OS ⇒
C64 LUGGABLE PROJECT
In 2000 I acquired my first SX-64 Executive Computer. A luggable C64 with a
built in 5" display, 1541 floppy drive and a unified power supply. All with a
handle on the top. I heavily modified mine to include a SuperCPU, IDE64, CD-Rom
drive, Ethernet adapter and High Speed RS232, all powered by a lightweight AT Power
Supply.
But the SX-64 was built for a different time. Its display is a massive CRT block,
1-foot deep. The rest of the internal layout is modeled around this main feature.
C64 Luggable is a project to build an all-in-one C64, oriented vertically rather
than horizontally. It has a large 15" LCD display and foregoes old tech like a
floppy drive, in favor of SD card and USB-based storage. Ethernet is a standard.
And so are its front-mounted 4-player controller inputs, and rear-mounted PS/2
mouse and keyboard ports.
I love my Commodore computers and how expandable they are, but they have a tendency
to take up a whole desk with sprawling peripherals and multiple power supplies.
This is fun its own way, but it makes them inconvenient to take with you. C64
Luggable is a practical project for me, and a reference design for other people to
be creatively inspired. It allows me to bring a C64 with me to my friends' houses,
to remove the friction of getting them to be able to enjoy C64 demos and
multi-player games with me. C64 Luggable helps me share the love of the C64 more
easily and with more people.
Learn more about C64 Luggable ⇒
SUPPORT MY WORK
Dear Commodore 64 enthusiast,
I'm working hard on C64 OS, and I'm building it for you and for the Commodore
community. Its combination of a zippy and consistent user interface, essential
programming frameworks, and a suite of online proxy services, will give you a new
way to enjoy your Commodore 64.
The C64OS.com weblog brings you quality reading material, programming and hardware
reference, technical deep dives, product and event reviews, and updates on my
progress.
The Buyer's Guide is the best way for you to find out about new and existing,
commercially available, products, projects and kits for all Commodore 8-Bit
computers. With large clear photos, detailed writeups, and standardized information
on price and compatibility, links to documentation, third-party reviews, and
specific instructions on how to buy, the Buyer's Guide is becoming the resource
of choice for discovering what you want to get next and how to get it.
But, you guessed it. Providing you with all of this great content takes time,
effort and money. The good news is that you can help out! You can make a real
difference, and support the future of these great initiatives with a helpful
contribution.
The easiest way to support my work is to purchase a
commercial copy of C64 OS. If you have already
purchased C64 OS and you want to provide additional support, you can always
make a donation. Just buy me a cup of coffee. (I also accept Bitcoin.)
Thank you so much, for your generous support
Gregory Nacu — OpCoders Inc.
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To all my supporters:
With Special Thanks to
- Alex Brem
- Louis Giglio
- Scott Hanselman
- Alan Reed
- Saveen Sadanand
- Christian Weyer
For repeated and generous support and encouragement.
Most recent contributors:
- Tim Harris
- Dietmar Krueger
- Rolf Peters
- Alan Reed
- Erik Magnusson
- Christian Weyer
- Scott Hanselman
- James A Schoch
Earlier contributors:
- Piotr Andrzejczak
- Paul Beel
- Aaron Bell
- Chuck Bell
- Olivier Bernhard
- Stéphane Blanchonnet
- Jan Blomqvist
- Leif Bloomquist
- Alex Brem
- Thomas Bühler
- Joe Carter
- Nelson Chamberlain
- Deanne Christoph
- CodeSecurity
- Dennis Costa
- K Michael Cullen
- Fabian Danders
- John DiLiberto
- Michael Doornbos
- Steve Dowden
- Antonio Drusin
- Jeremy English
- Mitchell Farley
- Roy Fielding
- Scott Finney
- Greg Gerke
- David Gershman
- Louis Giglio
- Sarmad Gilani
- Carl Gonsalves
- Laurence Gonsalves
- Richard Good
- Thomas Gosser
- Robert Grasböck
- Eric Grejda
- Alfonso Coronado Guillén
- Steve Haak
- Steven Hansen
- James Happel
- Charles Heinle
- Eric Hill
- Paul Hocker
- Mirko Holzer
- Marcus Honey
- Immicro
- Employing Innovation
- Josh Johnson
- Rene Kint
- David Kraus
- Addy van Ladesteijn
- Philipp Lehmann
- Michael Longval
- Karim Lounnas
- Owen Mann
- Nathan Marler
- Brad Marshall
- Brian Marstella
- Sascha Mathejczyk
- Jason McEachin
- Tristan Miller
- Emmanuel Montfermé
- Ronald Morrissette
- Laszlo Nagy
- Bernd Neikes
- Christopher Nelson
- Jessie Oberreuter
- Jonas Olsson
- Nicholas Otz
- Themis Papassilekas
- Rayner Pedersen
- Bryan Pope
- Jonathan Raphaelson
- Glen Rapoza
- Malcolm Reiter
- MindFlare Retro
- Retro Rewind
- Joel Ricci
- Paul Rickards
- Saveen Sadanand
- Carlos Perez Saldana
- Paul Schimmelpfenning
- Aric Sedlacek
- David Semke
- Northwoods Computer Services
- Keith Shirley
- Josef Souçek
- Jochen Spang
- Flemming Steffensen
- Lars-Erik Stenholm
- Daniel Stephens
- Martin Studer
- Kent Sullivan
- Markos Themelidis
- Klaus Timmermann
- Rodrigo Felipe Martínez Torres
- James Trevizo
- Tomasz Tybulewicz
- Daniel Varga
- Jakob Voos
- Peter Walsh
- Matthew Walworth
- Adam Whitney
- Jimmy Wilson
- David Youd
- geekpower
- Marko Šolajić
✶ Names in bold are multiple contributors. Extra thanks!