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In which programming language is it written?

• rwmj 4y ago
  6502 assembly apparently. It's not open source.
  • woodrowbarlow 4y ago
    but it does have documented APIs for writing your own drivers and applications.
    • snvzz 4y ago
      Not open source, yet somehow expects people to work on it for free anyways. I don't get it. What a wasted opportunity. On a personal level, I would otherwise buy the book and other merchandise, and jump right into developing some tools for it, just to try it out. But with it not being open source. I abhor the idea of supporting it in any way, to the point that the idea of writing software for it makes me physically sick. Hell, I don't even want to try see it.
      • woodrowbarlow 4y ago
        the author deliberately omitted copy protection, went to great effort to make the software extensible by the user, and hopes to make a little money from nearly a decade of work -- for me, there's a good enough balance of software freedoms. it's okay if that's not free enough to meet your standards. it's worth considering that the commodore scene is tiny, and that Greg's site has long been a key resource in the community. his buyer's guide and programming tutorials are widely cited -- these are resources he contributes freely. Greg's influence has helped increase the size of our community by lowering the barrier for entry. i do hope that one day he begins open-sourcing (at least) the core applications. but i don't object to his release model. edit: removed 1 clause. 'vitriolic' wasn't fair, i apologize.
        • snvzz 4y ago
          >for me, there's a good enough balance of software freedoms. For me, it clearly is not. It being an OS, there's an implicit expectation that third parties will write software for it, and it just doesn't sit well with me. >it's worth considering that the commodore scene is tiny, and that Greg's site has long been a key resource in the community. his buyer's guide and programming tutorials are widely cited -- these are resources he contributes freely. I used them before, love them, even have a local backup in case they go away. But as for C64 OS, only disappointment. I had some expectations, which were just betrayed. >Greg's influence has helped increase the size of our community by lowering the barrier for entry. And yet, a new proprietary OS raises the barrier of entry. It creates yet another silo. To access it, having a C64 is not enough, you'll also have to buy C64 OS. >but your comment is unnecessarily vitriolic. Is that because it disagrees with your views, while politely describing my actual feelings on the matter? I do not appreciate being told that my feelings are not valid. It really makes me sick, and I am less willing to participate in the C64 community now, as my energy will be drained every time I reference his excellent documentation.
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      • wazoox 4y ago
        You could use ConTiki OS instead. The C64 version isn't as polished as C64 OS, but it's not bad, and it's entirely opensource. Of course it's a bit of abandonware ATM, but it had lots of features: a web browser, an IRC client, a Twitter client...
• Xophmeister 4y ago
  In this video,[1] he mentions 6502[2]...so assembly. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nUosmUcckU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nUosmUcckU [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502
• Joeboy 4y ago
  I guess it's probably still the case that anything remotely performant on a C64 (games, demos, OSes etc) is written in machine code / asm.