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Commodore needles Microsoft over end of Windows 10, tries to lure disgruntled users to its Linux-based OS Vision 3.0 — 'Microsoft may be leaving you behind. We Won't.' (www.tomshardware.com)

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Commodore has set up a microsite to help steer you towards its unique vision of a modern operating system. If you head over to commodore.net/closewindows, you will first see a banner image of the Commodore 64X PC with OS Vision. But that is essentially an x86 PC in a C64-style ‘bread bin’ chassis, so don’t worry about the hardware.

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[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm downloading it. Ya. Takes a minute.
I'm gonna give this thing a whirl. I know, its gonna just be another linux distro.
But it sure would be neat if I actually liked it ...

Hey. I just don't know much about the following. This is from the setup instructions.
What ROMs are we talking about here? Why does this matter?

Instructions on how to obtain and install legal Commodore ROMS can be found in the Commodore OS Settings manager by navigating menu: System --> Commodore OS --> Commodore OS Settings and selecting "Emulation Settings" and then "Cloanto Commodore ROM Setup" option.
NOTE: Whilst Commodore's 8-bit ROMs cannot be included Cloanto does provide their C64 Forever package for free online and Commodore OS is capable of downloading and extracting the 8-bit system ROM files and games via the above process. It is suggested you perform this step even if you retain the valid ROMs yourself.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Commodore games. ROM is the common term for a game cartridge dump.

[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never owned a Commodore. I didn't know they had cartridge games. At the time, my family owned a TI 99/4a. I think it did have a cartridge, but the BASIC one just stayed in there. We didn't have anything else. I hand-typed in games from Compute! magazine and saved em on tape drive. Lotsa debug involved.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

The c64 actually did have game cartridges, but be it tape, cartridge, floppy, cd - in the emulation space, ROM (Read-Only Memory) just generally means the file with the game data no matter the medium.

But technically, it's a ROM only if it truly is a dump of an actual ROM chip.