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WiFi and webcam don't work out of the box, but it's an old MacBook so I wasn't expecting much. The color scheme is surprisingly well done.

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Commodore os is fricken sweet dude. If I'd had that shit as a kid I'd have been flooored

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

It was awesome, so awesome that I later upgraded to the Amiga when that came out. Amiga OS CLI was similar to Unix. So I had Linux before Linux, with a multitasking OS, stereo sound, and 4096 color game console.

I actually lived near the Commodore United States headquarters and I did a brief internship in high school there.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

I was, had a vic 20 and c64