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Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by yboris on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:56PM (#22817633)
Looks cool!

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

Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by kitotik on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @11:09PM (#22819428)
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.

Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by contingencies on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @07:22PM (#22818263)
brew cask install cool-retro-term
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by sebastianconcpt on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:58PM (#22817640)
Wooha! thanks for that
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by basementcat on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:38PM (#22817966)
Is it ironic that a terminal emulator requires QT5?
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @10:14PM (#22819205)
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.
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by crazygringo on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @07:14PM (#22818215)
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.

Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by FreeFull on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @07:49PM (#22818424)
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.
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by tschw on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @10:57PM (#22819384)
Worth it, though. Think of all the chrome tabs you could have open.
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by saagarjha on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:27AM (#22820055)
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by takeda on Thursday April 09, 2020 @02:46AM (#22820369)
That's how many I usually had open when Opera had Presto engine ;P
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by krueger71 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @08:03AM (#22821709)
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/

Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by ken on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:29PM (#22817895)
Most importantly, does it support the “WAIT 6502, 1” easter egg?
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by basementcat on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:45PM (#22818016)
It appears you can add your own commands to the commands.ps1 file.

Edit: There's already support for "SYS64738"

Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by djaychela on Thursday April 09, 2020 @02:30AM (#22820306)
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.
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by grugagag on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @11:28PM (#22819504)
This is great, i get that nostalgia from time to time
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by hestefisk on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:11PM (#22817758)
This is nice. I might write a C128 mode for this :)
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by sebastianconcpt on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @11:24PM (#22819479)
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
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by 42droids on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:30AM (#22820071)
Brings back memories. Love it.
Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by kerng on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:28PM (#22817887)
Love this!