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Slack client for Commodore 64 (2016)
- zerr 8y agoCommodore 64 aside, I'd love to have a native (non-Electron) client for Windows at least.
- chubs 8y agoI'm working on one for the mac, which isn't quite windows of course, if anyone cares? Looks like this so far: https://i.imgur.com/ATNdP6p.png https://i.imgur.com/ATNdP6p.png
- agentdax5 8y agoI certainly care. Is this open source, how can I help?
- chubs 8y agoGlad to hear it! I'm undecided re open source, two reasons: I wouldn't mind trying to sell it and take a chance at the 'indie developer' dream, and also managing a community project i think is beyond me.
- andai 8y agoI would like to compliment you on the lovely aesthetic.
- chubs 8y agoThanks! You're too kind :)
- swozey 8y agoIf you make this allow for an all black theme (INCLUDING the main chat window) I'll happily use it. I use a black theme (there's a few forks of https://github.com/widget-/slack-black-theme https://github.com/widget-/slack-black-theme) but Slack breaks them beyond just dumping the code back into the css files constantly.
- chubs 8y agoSure that wouldn't be very difficult. I think i'd be obliged to have a dark theme for the new macOS' dark mode anyway.
- sanlyx 8y agoIs anyone working on this? I don't even use Slack but could be interesting to reverse engineer the protocol and all and implement at least an API library or something for Windows
- the-dude 8y agoI would rather have that for my Acorn Electron.
- htor 8y agocan i ask why you would like a native one? is it too slow or something?
- zerr 8y agoYes, it is slow, memory hog and visually ugly (for me). I'd rather prefer a slick pure win32 app, including the visuals - real win32 buttons, lists, text edit controls, etc...
- ziotom78 8y agoThis is the kind of HN post I love the most. Now, if only s somebody could port Julia to C64...
- ryanmercer 8y agoGet out of here with that Commodore 64 crap, Atari 8-bit line for life! :)
- westmeal 8y agoLove seeing people doing crazy things with old hardware. Awesome!
- NSSec2 8y agoReminds me of my IRC days when I still had to share the family computer. Siblings would get computer time which obviously cut into my irc time, so i did the sane thing and wrote an irc gateway to run on the family computer that’d use the serial port for proxy clients. Then i connected the old 8088 (by serial port) we still had and built a barebones irc client with qbasic. All so i could be on irc while siblings were on the computer..
- TomMarius 8y agoOh well, the good old times.
- jwilk 8y agoHN discussion from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13062661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13062661
- jsd1982 8y agoSeems to me the rs232 link could be much faster by bypassing the Kernal's bit-banged implementation and going direct to the hardware serial interface on the CIA. You'd have to rewire from the user port a bit.
- geniium 8y agohaha amazing what people do!
- amelius 8y agoThe RPi they use for the connection is already many times more powerful than the C64.