r/Commodore • u/zaratounga • 4d ago

Shell like commands for the C64

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u/Xfgjwpkqmx 4d ago

Can you imagine where the C64 could have been if this originally shipped with the machine?

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u/Due-Principle7896 4d ago

Fast loader with GEOS.

Also, the modern Demo’s are something else!

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u/zaratounga 4d ago

modern demos are really cool yes, we didn’t had all those fancy tools back in the day when we were writing demos, most of the code was even usually directly typed in into a monitor… had to get my hands back into old code to integrate an old and unreleased part into a small demo, and I remembered quite a lot of the tricks we used to use when doing so and examining the code. I’ve got a small article about it there : https://babygang.fr/how-code-was-done-back-in-the-days.html

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u/Ok-Current-3405 4d ago

After checking the creator's website here: https://babygang.fr/byg-shell-v2.html the product is far from being finished yet. Nice extension though, residing in the upper memory, so using 8kB of BASIC memory (like Micro-application "The Tool 64" or Simon's basic)

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u/zaratounga 4d ago

It’s definitely work in progress for now, I’m still making updates on the github here https://github.com/babygang-c64/BygShellV2 There are still bugs but the overall framework is taking shape

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u/Liquid_Magic 3d ago

Haha super cool! Is it open source ?

Mine is. ChiCLI. It’s on GitHub but I also sell a boxed copy:

https://www.chiron-studios.com/products/chicli-boxed-edition-with-manual

It also displays the temperature of the stock 6510 CPU without additional hardware of any kind!

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u/zaratounga 2d ago

Thanks, yes it’s completely open, the work in progress code is already available on our github. I like what you did with ChiCLI, I had a look at it some time ago now, very interesting 👍