AMAZING New OS for the 40-year-old Commodore 64! C64 OS Review

Even if you could scroll the dialogs one pixel at a time, the color memory cannot, alas.

Love the throw back to AmigaOS with the custom screens and pull down!

My first experience with a computer was @ 12 years old and on a C64 and games, programming, BBS systems all felt like magic. At 16 I moved onto x86 systems and networking, LANTASTIC, etc... which was magical again and Ive been in IT for 35+ years now. I watched this last night and to see the development that went into a 40 year old system and all the amazing stuff that the programmer made the C64 do once again just amazed me and I went to bed thinking... Wow, that was magical to see. Thanks for putting together this video and to the programmer(s) who put that kind of work into a system so many people love and enjoy 40 years later.

Insane! It would be cool that we can use this os on emulations, C64 mini console for example. One of things that i would like to have in update is basic midi composer that will use all cid chip capabilities. As composer i would get me real C64 and use it for making chip tune music. ;)

I wonder if it works on a Turbochameleon64

Doesn't the C64 come with the OS preinstalled?

I think Ai will help us make software that we cannot think off today. Just like this guy made software for the c64 that people could not think off back in the day., :-)

I don't know much about this genre but what I'm gather is people are taking these antique computer technologies and writing new software and adapting new hybrid hardware for them?

if it could handle Cyrillic i wish to use it for book writing in .tex

I had the Commodore 64 tape deck disk drive and printer plus a few games. I wish I could find another set up with some of the games I had. I used it so much I wore out everything. Anyone knowa where I can find all of it again?

Where did you get that awesome wooden monitor stand?

Thanks for the video. It was actually extreme useful to see that this software would be of absolutely no use for my needs, and is more of a novelty than for doing anything useful. Spending averted!

So its sorta like its windows for the C64 ?? Useful instead of typing all that stuff.

This is a gold mine!

Wow loud music. Had to stop watching.

Grew up using the c 64 and part of me is asking...does it really need an operating system .. part of me would just wants to use it the old school way .

Why is it that these videos seem to be aimed at 5 year olds rather the adults who are more likely to be interested in these computers? They could be so much better with the silly crap and sound effects removed. Just some honest constructive criticism.

Have an other question btw. How you get an PC Mouse running on an C64? Did i miss some Videos?

Is anyone using this interesting OS with an original breadbin and an Ultimate II+? I want to like it. Any other videos out there for this use case?

I was hoping that after a year there would be a more completed version with new features, I was instead a bit disappointed to find out that apart form some bug fix the OS is still the same as a year ago and it feels somewhat not complete.

Dude is like Bob Ross with computers

I must admit that this is pretty impressive, considering the memory limitations of the C64.

Coming from the Computer Science point of view these machines were quite capable machines. What was bad was the peripherals in the 80s. I grew up on these 8 bits. Today we have those high speed peripherals. So there is a lot of things today that are possible that 40 years could not have been imagined. With all that said this is awesome accomplishment and I will be purchasing in the near future. Awesome review and video!

what nutcase would buy that? people loved the 64 for what it was, not because they want some lame piece of trash os for it 41 years later. Some bonehead trying to cash in off gullible people.

the "french canadian" (laugh) created a crappy version of geos.

Its a Nice OS for a 42 years old system. 😊

If i should have designed it, i Think i would have made a userport device with a kind of accelerator, and memory bank Rio Unit combined with a Floppy or sd2iec Unit. Would speed up things a lot. But would make it more costly. But it would live outside The mainmemory, and let more software be able to run native.
Best from both World.
Hard to get everything in one packet.

What does this new OS can do ?

I love chiluahuas, mine is a toy breed.

Move it over to the C128! Before PC's I used GEOS128 for writing and printing all my work documents, etc.. More elbow room on the C128 screen.

In terms of getting updates for old tech I guess the record holders are the board comupters of the Voyager probes :D

Woohoooo!

This is a very detailed and interesting video makes me love my C64 & C128 even more. What model of Sony monitor is that by the way.

Yeah, well done to the developer but I wouldn't use it.

I didn't know that something like this would exist. Wow!

GUI desktop is not the way for 8-bit computers!
OR ANY OTHER COMPUTER

I REALY LOVE MY C64 ❤❤❤❤ FOREVER ❤❤❤❤

How many monitors are you using for this video? I see a Sony, as well as a 1084S. Great vid BTW!

I love this..altho I would pefer to add items such as games to a top down menu vs icons.Having said that..good work!..Would be nice to see this on a crt image since crt's can hold multiple files.

Have you ever considered getting a logo?

I feel that GEOS from 1988-ish (version 2.0) still offers a more complete, modern experience with its full bitmapped graphics and applications suite (geoWrite, geoPaint, geoPublish, geoFile, etc.) and my personal goal is to get useful output from it, something I can print on a modern printer or send with an email.

It seems that requiring a filesystem with directories has limited the new OS in terms of not running on C64Mini, BMC64, etc. I use a 1541-II connected to a Windows XP PC as the link between the modern world and my C64. By not using 1541 drives, C64OS seems to break that link.

I’m just not sure what I’d do with it, but I do respect that lots of work has gone into it, and the delivery is particularly impressive, as long as you embrace that SD card solution (which I don’t) :)

Fat boi doggy. Cute af. I want to still them and just squish them and just love them and yes. I'm coming to steal your dog. It's too cute.

I kept thinking "cool but what is the point, why would anyone use this?" until you showed that it can load games from SD card. Now I can imagine having every good game on 1 card, all launchable from this OS. There's the reason for existence. What an accomplishment! 😮

❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎💯💥 I still love the old original C64 OS Because this piece of software actually runs under the real C64 OS. C64 orignal OS is like a skin and The new OS is like a tailored suit overlay on it. We didn't love the clothes more than our skin which always protect us in any environment. 💥💯🤎💜💙💚💛🧡❤

You have fastload and you still LOAD"$",8 ?

If using an SD card for storage is OK, then using a paged ram expansion should be OK as well. The whole thing could then be in RAM and most things would be instantaneous. It would also work that way using the time-appropriate pluggable extension memory.

look and feel of the OS is that good ... GEOS was lightyears ahead on the same machine

I do love your videos ! Thank you very much ! all the best

Great work! Are you going to put out an update video when the networking layer is released in v1.07?

this was the gadget that turbo charged Gaming.