C64 OS Software Releases

Other C64 OS software releases are added here as they become available.

Resource and Software bundles come in CARs too.

CARs (C64 Archive files) can also be used for transporting other software and resource bundles, such as collections of media files, like SID music, Commodore Grafix sample packs, and backgrounds for your App Launcher desktops. Double-click a general CAR from the File Manager. It opens the Installer Utility, but shows the type as "General." Click the extract button and a subdirectory full of new stuff is created, right where the CAR file is found.

Extracting Software transported in a CAR is easy as 1, 2, 3.
Filename Release Date C64 OS Version # Version # File Size CRC32 checksum
Eliza for C64 OS v1.0.zip 2023-12-24 1.0+ 1.0 55KB, 138 blocks 03c95176

Eliza for C64 OS is written and released by OpCoders Inc, but is published and available for purchase from Itch.io. The 55KB listed above is for the complete package as a .ZIP file. The 138 blocks listed above (and the CRC32 checksum) are only for the .CAR install archive for Eliza for C64 OS that is found within the .ZIP file.

About ELIZA

According to Wikipedia, "ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1967 at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum." A version of ELIZA was written in BASIC by Jeff Shrager in 1977. That source code is available on GitHub.


   

About Eliza for C64 OS

Although the 1977 BASIC version of ELIZA can be easily ported to BASIC 2.0 for the Commodore 64, "Eliza for C64 OS" super-charges the experience by adding a graphical user interface, multiple-personalities, and a host of fixes, improvements, and clever new features.

Eliza for C64 OS is the best, the fastest, and the most featureful edition of the classic ELIZA available for the Commodore 64. It has been written from scratch, 100% in 6502 assembly language, as an Application taking full advantage of many technologies provided by C64 OS.

Filename Release Date C64 OS Version # Version # File Size CRC32 checksum
hvscsamples1.car 2023-11-07 1.04+ 1.0 206 KB, 811 blocks e5b22e3b

HVSC SID Music Samples, Set #1

This pack contains 50 sample SID music files. These are drawn from the HVSC, including approximately 40 files from the HVSC top 100, plus a hand-picked assortment of several others.

Each file has been relocated to be compatible with C64 OS and can be played by SID Preview. The SID Search service (http://services.c64os.com/about) can be used to find and download over 34,000 SID files, all of which have been relocated for C64 OS, and which have C64-friendly filenaames (unique, 16-characters, no non-c64 characters.)

Filename Release Date C64 OS Version # Version # File Size CRC32 checksum
gfxsamples1.car 2023-11-07 1.04+ 1.0 165 KB, 650 blocks 403c5397

C64 Graphics Samples, Set #1

This pack contains 20 graphic image files. A mixture of C64 graphics in different modes and in a variety of file formats, all of which are supported by C64 OS. C64 OS has datatype loaders for each of these image file types, which allows them to be loaded and displayed in Image Viewer.

Filename Release Date C64 OS Version # Version # File Size CRC32 checksum
cgfxsamples1.car 2023-05-06 1.04+ 1.0 1525 KB, 6149 blocks 893e1057

CGFX Samples, Set #1, Includes

  • 6 x Commodore Grafix sample files for use in Image Viewer
  • 1 x 3D Koala, Matrix Image
Filename Release Date C64 OS Version # Version # File Size CRC32 checksum
petsciibots.car 2023-05-06 1.04+ 1.0 231 KB, 931 blocks f8897bbc

PETSCII Bots, Includes

  • Over 2400 Small PETSCII Bots, 5x7 characters
  • 14 x Big PETSCII Bots, 12x16 characters
  • 1 x Original CSDB release README file
Filename Release Date C64 OS Version # Version # File Size CRC32 checksum
backdrops1.car 2023-01-09 1.0+ 1.0 59 KB, 231 blocks acad6174

Backdrops Set #1, Includes

  • 56 x Backdrop samples for use in App Launcher
  • screenedit and savescreen tools


Last modified: May 25, 2024