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A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal

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Looks cool!

Obligatory note: Cool Retro Term (CRT) https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term is pretty cool ;)

Wooha! thanks for that

Is it ironic that a terminal emulator requires QT5?

Meh; a lot of terminal emulators use some toolkit (gnome-terminal, lxterminal, xfce's terminal use GTK, KDE-adjacent uses QT, CDE's terminal is a motif app), and cool term is graphics heavy, which I admit is amusing.

brew cask install cool-retro-term

Oh my. This makes me way happier than it probably should.

These sort of visual effects always seem to fall short to my old eyes, but this is extremely well executed.

Wow. From:

  64K RAM SYSTEM  38911 BASIC BYTES FREE

to:

  16700332000 KB SYSTEM RAM 3865524000 KILOBYTES FREE

?? Wait a minute... this guy has 16 terabytes of RAM?!?!

I mean I knew we've come a long way... but not that long. ;)

Looking at the code, it's a bug in reset.ps1 that mistakenly appends "000". So just a normal 16 GB system, phew.

Maybe not 16TB, but it is possible to have a desktop computer with 1.5TB of RAM (16 RAM slots, with 128GB per RAM stick). It is going to be fairly expensive, though.

Worth it, though. Think of all the chrome tabs you could have open.

About 6000, apparently: https://twitter.com/tldtoday/status/1225602339056189445

That's how many I usually had open when Opera had Presto engine ;P

If you really want the historically accurate colors there are some interesting resources online:

https://www.colodore.com/ https://www.pepto.de/projects/colorvic/ https://www.pepto.de/projects/colorvic/2001/

Most importantly, does it support the “WAIT 6502, 1” easter egg?

It appears you can add your own commands to the commands.ps1 file.

Edit: There's already support for "SYS64738"

This is incredibly cool... But alas I was on the wrong side of the fence when I was a kid - ZX Spectrum all the way, so younger me wouldn't allow me to use it. If it was a BBC in Mode 7 then I could just about get away with that, but a Commie 64 just isn't right.

This is great, i get that nostalgia from time to time

This is nice. I might write a C128 mode for this :)

I had that machine. But I've used it always in B/W in a TV that wasn't NTSC so I don't even know the original colors :D

Brings back memories. Love it.

Love this!

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