COS has that retro feel - great work!

[paulie420]

Just wanted to come by and make a post about CommodoreOS!! Yes, I was turned onto the project JUST NOW from a few Youtube videos that probably have the traffic running here this weekend - so while I don't have a Commodore 64x YET, I donwnloaded the .ISO and spun up a Proxmox VM....

COS is perfectly bloated and I love the beeps and bloops that it sends the users way - it just FEELS like something Commodore would do if it were a computer company in 2024... wait - IT IS! Congrats to the team for securing the license and just wanted to drop a line that eyes are on the project and we love it!!!

I'm gonna whip up a Youtube video on my tiny channel @TechHeart6090... I run 2o fOr beeRS bbS if anyones into dialing in via TELNET - grab a copy of SyncTERM, Netrunner, MuffinTerm or IcyTerm and dial:

20ForBeers.com:1337

20ForBeers.com:1339 (www)

The communities that we build are the best thing - congrats to MyRetroComputer.com!! Hey - one thing I noticed you missed was including the AmigaFonts... they can be found https://github.com/rewtnull/amigafonts and can be installed in /usr/share/fonts/WHEREVER - they just run 'fs-cache' to update Linux...

Last question - are more updates planned for CommodoreOS? I notice a few GPG keys are bad (TOR, some others) and most users won't easily iron that out... sure, most of us are probably Linux people so no BIGGY, but I'd be willing to help, or wait for, updates in the future.

W00h00!!!

pAULIE42o
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[Ancient]

Hi

What were your promos settings - mind is freezing at the splash screen

Tim

[LeoNigro]

Hi paulie420,

I'm so glad you've enjoyed the experience.
Please spread the word as it would appear that people keep commenting that Commodore should run this or that linux distro when we already have one tailored specifically for Commodore fans any anyone interested in a novel and distinctive desktop experience, with access to apps for almost every conceivable use case.

I intend to put in a prompt with common options to tone down the animations, sounds and speech, which whilst fun, may not be to everyone's taste.

Some things to explore......

Click the Commodore icon on the dock and explore the Commodore folder for a range of games, demos, MOD and SID files.

Under Emulators you will see jGamebase which provides a database of runnable demos for Commodore 8-bit systems (and hopefully Amiga and other systems in the future via an update).

You might enjoy trying out the Conky desktop widgets which I almost made a standard part of the desktop.
I went crazy configuring most of them nicely. One day I'll make the perfect widget script and include it as standard. Maybe for COS3.1.
BTW I nearly went with the glassy looking one.