A Unix-inspired shell and RAM filesystem for the Commodore 64 (6502 assembly)
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reaperducer•1h ago
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.
rasz•27m ago
Quite bold to put mit license and claim copyright/authorship on Claude generated code.
reaperducer•1h ago
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.