Linux on a Commodore 64
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Linux on a Commodore 64
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Re: Linux on a Commodore 64
#2Onno Kortman has taken semu, a minimal RISC-V emulator, and cross-compiled it with llvm-mos, an LLVM port to the MOS 6502 processor, in order to run Linux on the Commodore 64. Kortman writes: "The screenshots took VICE a couple hours in 'warp mode' to generate. So, as is, a real C64 should be able to boot Linux within a week or so."
Re: Linux on a Commodore 64
#3Onno Kortman has taken semu, a minimal RISC-V emulator, and cross-compiled it with llvm-mos, an LLVM port to the MOS 6502 processor, in order to run Linux on the Commodore 64. Kortman writes: "The screenshots took VICE a couple hours in 'warp mode' to generate. So, as is, a real C64 should be able to boot Linux within a week or so."
I'd be curious to see this running on real hardware. I hope someone's able to make it work.
Re: Linux on a Commodore 64
#4So, I like Linux and I love my C64, but.. Linux are for computers too primitive to come with their own kernel and.... the C64 comes with a kernel and shell right from the factory :P
Re: Linux on a Commodore 64
#5Onno Kortman has taken semu, a minimal RISC-V emulator, and cross-compiled it with llvm-mos, an LLVM port to the MOS 6502 processor, in order to run Linux on the Commodore 64. Kortman writes: "The screenshots took VICE a couple hours in 'warp mode' to generate. So, as is, a real C64 should be able to boot Linux within a week or so."
I'd be curious to see this running on real hardware. I hope someone's able to make it work.
It might be more interesting than watching paint dry, just via risk that an old C64 will let the smoke out.
Re: Linux on a Commodore 64
#6So, I like Linux and I love my C64, but.. Linux are for computers too primitive to come with their own kernel and.... the C64 comes with a kernel and shell right from the factory :P
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Re: Linux on a Commodore 64
#7So, I like Linux and I love my C64, but.. Linux are for computers too primitive to come with their own kernel and.... the C64 comes with a kernel and shell right from the factory :P
Yes, but it’s fun :-)
Re: Linux on a Commodore 64
#8So, I like Linux and I love my C64, but.. Linux are for computers too primitive to come with their own kernel and.... the C64 comes with a kernel and shell right from the factory :P
The Commodore 64 doesn't come with a mere kernel, it comes with a mighty KERNAL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERNAL
> The KERNAL was known as kernel[6] inside of Commodore since the PET days, but in 1980 Robert Russell misspelled the word as kernal in his notebooks. When Commodore technical writers Neil Harris and Andy Finkel collected Russell's notes and used them as the basis for the VIC-20 programmer's manual, the misspelling followed them along and stuck.[7]
> According to early Commodore myth, and reported by writer/programmer Jim Butterfield among others, the "word" KERNAL is an acronym (or, more likely, a backronym) standing for Keyboard Entry Read, Network, And Link, which in fact makes good sense considering its role. Berkeley Softworks later used it when naming the core routines of its GUI OS for 8-bit home computers: the GEOS KERNAL.
Re: Linux on a Commodore 64
#9Once you add more RAM to a Commodore 64, is it still a Commodore 64?
Re: Linux on a Commodore 64
#10Once you add more RAM to a Commodore 64, is it still a Commodore 64?
Yes, if you use an REU, which is a correctly contemporary memory upgrade for the C64.