alt.hn

2/26/2026 at 12:36:41 AM

Show HN: Unix for the Commodore 64? Open Source

https://github.com/ascarola/c64ux/releases/tag/v0.7

by ascarola

2/26/2026 at 3:55:49 AM

Quite bold to put mit license and claim copyright/authorship on Claude generated code.

by rasz

2/26/2026 at 7:30:15 AM

How do you know? The excessive comments?

by the_biot

2/26/2026 at 1:29:23 PM

Line 2948: jsr update_day_rollover ; <-- ADD THIS

:-D (etc. etc.)

by raminyt

2/26/2026 at 1:23:48 PM

Author is all over AI, other projects on his github are some AI nonsense made with Claude and at least partially somewhat credited this way (or maybe not obscured well enough with Claude signed commits). Release page is your standard affair LLM emojis gag. But mostly code itself smells llm, was dumped all at once and there are no commits since initial upload.

by rasz

2/26/2026 at 2:49:22 AM

Around 1987 I mostly completed a Unix-like OS for the C-64 called MATRIX. I was probably around six weeks away from burning it to a PROM when I got a new girlfriend and completely lost interest in the project.

I don't remember too much about it, other than:

- Because Commodore drives had ludicrously long file names for the era, paths like /etc/dev/joy1 didn't need any weirdness.

- Password encryption? What's that?

- What we would call "metadata" today was stored in USR files.

- Directory listing was agonizingly slow. I remember commandeering tracks 16 and 17 for my own hair-brained directory structure in an effort to speed things up.

by reaperducer